On Our Radar

Home leasing technology screens an applicant’s background and rejects those with a criminal history or having a high risk score. Housing departments and advocates are pushing for a more personal component in reviewing leasing applications to ensure that the leasing technology isn’t turning away applicants for absurd and easily explainable reasons.

The health risks associated with football are causing a racial divide. Affluent White parents are pulling their kids out of football at a higher rate than Black parents of low-moderate income. Children that can go to a highly funded school have the option of playing alternative sports; many of which aren’t offered at lower income schools.

Data shows that millennial and baby boomer migration have slowed down since the 2007-2009 Great Recession.

It has been a common idea that upzoning, building taller buildings that lead to more housing supply, will translate into lower prices but a study of this practice in Chicago shows that prices went up.

From Black Codes— laws passed to ensure the least amount of economic mobility for newly freed slaves— to the burning down of wealthy Black neighborhoods, African Americans have had seemingly irremovable and systematic obstacles to entering the middle class.

Banks are stepping up their efforts to detect and deter financial elder abuse in response to a rise in such crime, and artificial intelligence software could become part of the solution.

Several Democratic presidential candidates have coalesced on a distinctive approach to fighting poverty — transferring people money — and are including it as part of bigger proposals that help poor and middle-class people alike, ensuring that these ideas have a more prominent spot in the campaign than past anti-poverty plans have had.

Residential segregation is still alive and well despite being outlawed 50 years ago.

The White House has planned to end government control of the two largest mortgage market companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren will propose a new ‘wealth tax’ which she believes will mitigate wealth inequality. Warren is said to be a representation for the entire Democratic Party of a shift leftwards on economic policy.

Redfin calculated housing market data ranging from 2017 to 2018, focusing on the share of affordable active listings that were available to households making the median income across 49 metro areas.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is at the front of another attack by conservatives. Ocasio-Cortez spoke out about the racial biases in facial recognition algorithms. After being mocked by conservative leaders, it turns out that she was right.

Journalists are tip-toeing around the term ‘racist’ and it seems because there is a shame associated with such title, as there should be. Because of the apprehension of the term, one would question where the threshold would lie for overt racism to be labeled just that.

In Washington, D.C., 9/10 of the grandparents that are raising their grand children are African American. After fighting the complex custodial legal system, finding affordable, safe housing is a concern for these families.

Hundreds of thousands of low-income families in rural America are facing a threat to their homes because the government shutdown froze federal funding for mortgage loans and rental assistance.