On Our Radar

Trump Administration’s revamp of Community Reinvestment Act’s rules would harm neighborhoods and investment in New Jersey

Waters accused Otting of dismissing Democrats’ concerns over a plan that could reshape lending decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

“We have a lot of tribal members that live here in Portland, that have lived here for generations and we are able to provide housing for some of them,” Delores Pigsley, chair of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians said during a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Activists say a five-year rent freeze is merely a good start. Who’s up for expropriating some private property?

One of the icons of the civil rights movement, the legacy of Rosa Parks has lived on for generations as a sign of strength and courage amid hostile discrimination.

There are numerous other problematic changes in the nearly 240-page proposal. I urge you to join me in calling on the administration to shelve the current proposal and reopen the dialogue with community representatives.

When Elon Musk secured $1.3 billion from Nevada in 2014 to open a gigantic battery plant, Jeff Bezos noticed. In meetings, the Amazon.com Inc. chief expressed envy for how Musk had pitted five Western states against one another in a bidding war for thousands of manufacturing jobs; he wondered why Amazon was okay with accepting comparatively trifling incentives.

For many young Americans struggling with student-loan payments, higher rent costs and relatively stagnant salaries, saving a fifth of a home’s value to get a mortgage simply isn’t on the radar.

“I am concerned that several of the proposed changes will weaken core protections in the Volcker rule and enable banking firms again to engage in high-risk activities related to covered funds,” Governor Lael Brainard said.

The data highlight a harsh reality of the U.S. economy a decade into the longest expansion on record: For people who don’t make big salaries, there are fewer and fewer affordable places to go.

There is broad agreement that the state’s extraordinary cost of living and escalating homeless problem is rooted in a shortage of housing in general and a dearth of lower-cost housing in particular. But many remain skeptical of remedies involving big structural changes.

Your credit score can determine whether you can buy a car, get certain jobs or rent an apartment. It’s a big deal. And so is this: Credit scores for many Americans are about to change — even if they don’t do anything.

The gap between rich and poor in America is the worst it’s been in more than a half century. 

The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies and, in doing so, becomes the first major news organization to divest from industries that extract fossil fuels, company executives announced Wednesday.

The Trump proposal aims to broaden the definition of what constitutes a bank’s community — taking into account that online banking now exists — while broadening the types of loans and services that would qualify under CRA.