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NBC News, February 14, 2024, ‘I Was Terrified’: Black Women May Prefer Black OB-GYNs Due TO Fear Of Discrimination, Dying During Pregnancy Fear of discrimination and dying during pregnancy and childbirth may lead pregnant Black women to prefer seeing a Black obstetrician, a small study suggests.  Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conducted a series […]

Next City, February 15, 2024, The People Who Enable Thriving Affordable Housing Communities We’re falling behind in a host of crucial areas, from health care and nutrition to child care and senior care. Without these services, we see senior citizens struggling to make do, children unprepared to thrive in school, poor health outcomes for people of

The New York Times, February 13, 2024, Crypto PAC Jumps Into Senate Race, Opposing Katie Porter in California The biggest name and the biggest spender of crypto money in the 2022 election cycle is now awaiting his prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy. But new super PACs have sprouted up as the successors to the collapsed

The New York Times, February 13, 2024, Student Housing Has A New Mantra: Bigger Is Better Off-campus student housing complexes across the country are getting larger, some home to more than 1,500 students, and they are being built on prime parcels as close to campus as possible, as developers seek to better manage their bottom

Mother Jones, February 10, 2024, How The FBI Infiltrated Denver’s Racial Justice Movement The latest episode of Reveal looks at the FBI’s attempt to undermine Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

Gothamist, February 12, 2024, NJ Lawmakers Pass Bill To Get More Affordable Housing Near Transit, Grocery Stores The state Assembly voted 51-28 on Monday to pass the latest version of a bill that makes sweeping changes to how New Jersey assigns and enforces towns’ requirements to build affordable housing. It includes a number of incentives

Market Watch, February 13, 2024, Housing Costs Are Still Rising, But That Won’t Stop The Fed From Cutting Interest Rates For over a year, economists and financial market experts have been confidently arguing that shelter costs are on the cusp of rolling over. So it was a surprise to many when shelter costs accelerated in

Vox, February 13, 2024, A Prescription For Housing? For more than a decade, researchers and advocates have argued that housing is a fundamental part of health care. Beginning this fall, for the first time, federal Medicaid dollars will start going toward paying some people’s rent. It’s a significant policy development. Congressional regulations have long barred Medicaid funds

Star Tribune, February 12, 2024, Feds Investigating Edina Public Schools For Discrimination The U.S. Department of Education is investigating Edina Public Schools over alleged discrimination, months after two Muslim students were suspended for using a pro-Palestinian slogan while protesting the Israeli war in Gaza. Attorney Bruce Nestor announced Nov. 27 that he had filed a

The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2024, Tougher Rent Laws Are Behind Trouble At NYCB When New York Community Bancorp posted large losses last month and warned of more difficulties to come, it pointed to a significant cause for concern: troubled loans in a sinking corner of the New York City apartment market.  NYCB is the city’s largest lender on

USA Today, February 11, 2024, Older Workers Find A Less Tolerant Workplace: Why Many Say Age Discrimination Abounds Roughly two-thirds of adults over 50 believe older workers face discrimination in the workplace, according to a new AARP report. Of that group, 90% believe ageism is commonplace. The finding, based on a series of surveys in 2022 and

Vox, February 10, 2024, What If Public Housing Were For Everyone? Then one US community started exploring social housing with a markedly more American twist: Leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland — a suburban region just outside Washington, DC, with more than 1 million residents — said they could increase their local housing supply not by

Business Insider, February 12, 2024, Home Prices Are Falling In These 32 Real Estate Markets Affordability After The Toughest Quarter In 38 Years Property value gains were widespread and significant in the fourth quarter. Single-family home prices climbed across all four regions of the country, led by a 7.3% jump in the Northeast. The NAR

The Washington Post, February 12, 2024, Medicaid’s Prescription For Health Includes Food And Housing In Some States A growing number of states are broadening the health-coverage program into a hub for fulfilling social needs: helping with housing and transportation, easing past prison life and domestic violence, and providing the cardboard boxes filled with canned goods

The Hill, February, 9, 2024, Even In This Election Year, America Must Not Lose Focus On Affordable Housing Each week, another headline touts a cause of the housing crisis — high mortgage rates, the increasing cost of labor and construction, wages that have not kept up with inflation — the list goes on.  All these reasons and more add