The New York Times, February 6, 2021, Pandemic’s Toll on Housing: Falling Behind, Doubling Up Eviction moratoriums don’t keep arrears from piling up, and aid to renters may not reach the most vulnerable. As the pandemic enters its second year, millions of renters are struggling with a loss of income and with the insecurity of […]
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CNBC, February 6, 2021, They went bust in the Great Recession. Now, in their 80s, the pandemic took their jobs Dan and Grace Porte worked together for decades. In the 1970s, they started a paint and wallpaper business. Then, after the housing bubble burst in the Great Recession, the couple delivered cars for Enterprise. Five
Bloomberg, January 29, 2021, Can an ‘Activist HUD’ Make Housing a Human Right? The nominee for the U.S. federal housing agency lays out her plans to fulfill President Biden’s ambitious housing agenda. In a rare display of bipartisan unity, Ohio’s Republican and Democratic senators co-introduced their Buckeye State colleague, Representative Marcia Fudge, for her Senate
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Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2021, Venmo’s Debt-Collection Practices Probed by CFPB The payment app’s tactics—including threatening to send debt collectors after customers who are scam victims—have previously come under scrutiny. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is probing the way that Venmo, the digital money-transfer service operated by PayPal Holdings Inc., treats customers who the
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National Public Radio, February 4, 2021, Biden Administration Resurrects Office To Help Women ‘At The Breaking Point’ President Biden pledged that equal pay, paid family leave and affordable child care will be at the forefront of his administration’s work. He’s creating a Gender Policy Council to take these on.
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The New York Times, February 18, 2021, 2.5 Million Women Left the Work Force During the Pandemic. Harris Sees a ‘National Emergency.’ “In one year,” Vice President Kamala Harris said, “the pandemic has put decades of the progress we have collectively made for women workers at risk.” Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of the flaws within our country, but perhaps one of the most glaring examples is how the virus has disproportionately impacted Black and brown communities.
Teen Vogue: What Is Redlining? How Residential Segregation Shaped U.S. Cities Read More »
The patterns of segregation in many major metropolitan areas can be traced back to laws and legal racial housing policies of the early 20th century used to exclude Black residents from certain neighborhoods.
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The latest webinar in NPQ’s Remaking the Economy series looks at the racial wealth gap, focusing on Black Americans.
Nonprofit Quarterly: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap and the Case for Reparations Read More »
If you’re a fan, then you’ve probably been quite pleased as D.C. has led the nation in gentrification for years.
The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Has Gentrification Actually Slowed In D.C.? Read More »
Activist and architectural designer Wandile Mthiyane examines the twin legacies of American redlining and Apartheid.
First Citizens BancShares will pour $16 billion into low- and moderate-income communities under a new community reinvestment plan tied to its pending purchase of CIT Group.
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Over the past decade, however, migration patterns have reversed and white folks have returned to the neighborhood in droves, buying up hundred-year-old Craftsman bungalows to flip or inhabit. Property values have doubled or even tripled, which is good for people trying to sell, but bad for renters who want to stay, thanks to the property taxes and rental prices that balloon as a result.
The new principles give RTD more wiggle room in talks with developers where no flexibility used to exist.
In a comment letter to the Federal Reserve, Better Markets commended the agency for its plans to modernize bank rules for underserved communities but said the Fed must commit to some core principles as it develops a new rule.
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