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Wisconsin is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, so much so that someone earning the minimum wage can’t afford a basic two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the state.

The school district alone, despite a student population of fewer than 200, envelopes 553 square miles of grass and sand and sky, spanning two time zones and three area codes. The buses of Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools travel a combined 312 miles every day along quiet highways and country roads. And it’s not just bus drivers who are hard to come by. No bus driver will stay on for more than two or three trips.

When talking about school-aged children, the ­­­­­­­benefits of mixing kids from different class backgrounds are substantial and well-documented. But for kids too young for kindergarten, the effects of economic integration are far from understood.

An expert found that New York City housing policy deepens segregation, but City Hall wanted the report kept secret.

The fear of being evicted or being denied a mortgage, not only limits an individual’s housing choices, but also makes it difficult to buy a house or rent an apartment because evictions show up on rental history background checks and can also affect credit score, and without a mortgage, purchasing a home is nearly impossible.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today issued an updated advisory  to financial institutions urging them to report to the appropriate local, state and federal authorities whenever they suspect that an older adult is the target or victim of financial exploitation.

For more than four decades, U.S. law has required banks to lend fairly and equitably. So do they? If Donald Trump’s administration has its way, the world might never know.

Honoring a former Confederate general and KKK grand wizard in 2019 is outrageous.

Homeownership rate for Hispanics has increased more in recent years than any ethnic group.

Court-ordered desegregation worked. But white racism made it hard to accept.

Minneapolis just did away with the rules that gave single-family homes a stranglehold on nearly three-quarters of the city by abolishing single-family-home zoning and allowing duplexes and triplexes to be built anywhere in the city.

When Kamala Harris used the first Democratic presidential debate to skewer the former vice president over his civil-rights record, Biden seemed floored. He found himself face-to-face with something politicos had thought extinct: a busing defender.

Racist policies, combined with market forces and changing demographics, have helped to create a housing crisis in many American cities.

To fight a housing crunch of their own creation, tech companies are planning company towns worthy of Gilded Age robber barons.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s “Douglass Plan” aims to establish a $10 billion fund for black entrepreneurs over five years, invest $25 billion in historically black colleges, legalize marijuana, expunge past drug convictions, reduce the prison population by half and pass a new Voting Rights Act to further empower the federal government to ensure voting access.