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Texas Tribune: Texas eviction filings among the nation’s highest as millions of rent relief dollars go unspent

Texas Tribune, January 21, 2022, Texas eviction filings among the nation’s highest as millions of rent relief dollars go unspent Eviction filings in several Texas cities are among the highest in the nation — even as millions of federal dollars aimed at helping struggling renters have sat unspent so long in some counties that the […]

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Politico: (Opinion) Why Are Minority-Owned Banks Disappearing? Washington Holds the Smoking Gun

Politico, January 19, 2022, (Opinion) Why Are Minority-Owned Banks Disappearing? Washington Holds the Smoking Gun At the moment the Great Recession hit in 2008, America boasted 215 minority-owned banks. Today, only 146 so-called “minority depository institutions” remain. Before we face another recession, Congress and the White House should erect a safety net explicitly designed to

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Washington Post: Affordable housing markets that are expected to gain the most value in 2022

Washington Post, January 20, 2022, Affordable housing markets that are expected to gain the most value in 2022 While most housing markets experienced price appreciation, high demand and limited supply in 2021, researchers at NAR identified 10 housing markets as “hidden gems” that have room to grow in 2022. The top 10 housing markets that

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NBC News: How 3D printing can be the solution to the nation’s affordable housing crisis

NBC News, January 4, 2022, How 3D printing can be the solution to the nation’s affordable housing crisis Using 3D printing to build homes provides numerous benefits, including a decrease in construction time due to the machine’s efficiency. During the process, concrete is extruded from a large machine into layers that form the walls, foundation

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WBFO/NPR: NYC must provide separate housing for trans people in homeless shelters under new settlement

WBFO/NPR, January 3, 2022, NYC must provide separate housing for trans people in homeless shelters under new settlement New York City must provide dedicated, separate housing for homeless trans and gender non-conforming people in city shelters in four boroughs, according to the terms of a recent legal settlement with Mariah Lopez, an activist with the

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Bloomberg Business + Equality: Wall Street Is Using Tech Firms Like Zillow to Eat Up Starter Homes

Bloomberg Business + Equality, January 7, 2022, Wall Street Is Using Tech Firms Like Zillow To Eat Up Starter Homes A Bloomberg News analysis of more than 100,000 property records shows that Zillow and the two other biggest iBuyers, Opendoor Technologies Inc. and Offerpad Solutions Inc., are selling thousands of homes to landlords backed by KKR & Co., Cerberus Capital Management, Blackstone

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NPR: Why some cities are operating legal homeless camps even in the dead of winter

NPR, January 7, 2022, Why Some Cities Are Operating Legal Homeless Camps Even In The Dead Of Winter The homelessness crisis, especially in major West Coast metro areas grabs the headlines: tent cities lining freeways and spreading into busy entertainment districts. But every night an untold number of people are also sleeping outside in smaller

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The Kansas City Star: Nowhere in US can Minimum Wage Afford a ‘Fair Market Rent’ 2-Bedroom Home; Florida Among Worst States for Affordability

“Somehow things are to the point where even though there’s that huge demand for relatively low-cost housing, the units aren’t getting produced.”

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Markets Insider: Top Fed official warns the COVID delta variant is a threat to the US economy and says the central bank will keep supporting growth

A top policymaker at the Federal Reserve has said the fast-spreading delta COVID-19 variant poses a risk to the rebound in global growth, and said the central bank should be patient in supporting the US recovery.

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