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Federal prosecutors are looking into how PNC Financial Services Group Inc. purchased tax credits meant to fund housing for low-income people, the bank said.

“There are 76 monuments to the civil rights movement. Let this be the 77th.”

States like Ohio are placing their surpluses in rainy-day funds, but cities that have suffered because of cuts since the recession say it is time to loosen up.

Economic and racial inequality is an issue that must be addressed now. Don Graves reflects on his years of work in the banking and community investment sectors to share his plans to remedy this inequality.

President Trump called on his attorney general to sue opioid companies, his latest move in an administration-wide effort to combat the opioid epidemic.

Several Chicago suburbs are exceptions to the national trend.

As the chain opens stores at the rate of three a day across the US, often in the heart of ‘food deserts’, some see Dollar General as an admission that a town is failing

She’s unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again.

Project invites more “map twins” to discover what else they have in common besides similar addresses.

Lending to problematic or serial evictors can cause people to be pushed out of their homes in the name of profits. Banks must adopt standards against this practice.

The Trump administration wants to shift the way it enforces an aspect of fair housing around the U.S., pivoting away from efforts to integrate lower-income housing into wealthier neighborhoods in favor of promoting more housing development overall.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the change on Monday.

HUD will begin holding stakeholder hearings on how to change the way it determines whether communities are enforcing the Fair Housing Act, which requires local governments to institute policies that help break down patterns of housing segregation. HUD stakeholders include nonprofit groups, academic researchers and private businesses.

The Obama administration took steps to encourage the development of low-income housing in high-income neighborhoods. In an interview, HUD Secretary Ben Carson said he plans instead to focus on restrictive zoning codes. Stringent codes have limited home construction, thus driving up prices and making it more difficult for low-income families to afford homes, Mr. Carson said.

The shift is expected to derail a signature Obama-era accomplishment. HUD had aimed to use computer technology to make it easier for communities to comply with fair-housing rules and to make it easier for the federal government to check whether they were following those rules.

But local officials in some communities said the process was costly and amounted to the federal government forcing them to put low-cost rental buildings in wealthier areas.

A new study analyzes Twitter data and finds that racial segregation not only divides us based on where we live, but how we travel around cities.

Maybe not everyone who is white is a racist, but racism is what makes us white. Don’t sleep on this movie.

Oregonian, August 1, 2018: Southeast Portland tenants mount rent strike Tenants at a Southeast Portland apartment complex are mounting a rent strike after they say their landlord raised rents while failing to address maintenance concerns. Twenty-five residents of Holgate Manor, an 81-unit complex near Southeast 36th Place and Holgate Boulevard, say they won’t pay rent until a series