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A study of more than 100 cities nationwide shows neighborhoods subjected to discriminatory housing policies nearly a century ago are hotter today than other areas.
NPR: Racist Housing Practices From The 1930s Linked To Hotter Neighborhoods Today Read More »
Despite bringing in $200,000 in profits, year after year, Freddie Lee James still can’t get a business loan. Black owners’ applications are rejected at twice the rate of whites owners’.
St. Louis Public Radio: Black Business Owners Face An Uphill Battle Securing Bank Loans Read More »
The 1619 Project, a multiplatform effort by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, highlights the fundamental role slavery played in the United States’ development by commemorating the year in which the first enslaved Africans were brought to the new Virginia colony.
Zinn Education Project: Teaching with New York Times 1619 Project Read More »
In an attempt to make compliance easier for banks, regulators are proposing to incentivize the very thing the Community Reinvestment Act was written to fight.
Shelterforce: Redlining Would Be Relegalized by CRA Reform Proposal Read More »
US Department of Homeland Security officials will share individual citizenship data with the Census Bureau, according to a recent privacy notice from the department.
CNN: Homeland Security Department To Provide Individual Citizenship Data To Census Read More »
The map illustrates data sets for highway, bridge, and transit prospects in opportunity zones.
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jovita Carranza to head President Trump’s Small Business Administration (SBA).
The Hill: Senate Confirms Trump Pick For Small Business Chief Read More »
Multiple causes call for policies to reduce building costs, provide incentives and encourage flexibility.
The Washington Post: The Conundrum Affordable Housing Poses For The Nation Read More »
Lanisha Bratcher voted in the 2016 presidential election. Three years later she was arrested because she had broken a law she didn’t know about.
A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees.
A JPMorgan employee and a customer secretly recorded their conversations with bank employees
The New York Times: This Is What Racism Sounds Like In The Banking Industry Read More »
In California, the ride-hailing company is changing a policy used as a safeguard against driver discrimination against low-income and minority riders.
CityLab: Did Uber Just Enable Discrimination by Destination? Read More »
For decades, the U.S. has required banks to steer a portion of their money to people in poor neighborhoods. Now, under proposed rule changes, banks may finance upgrades to sports stadiums, call it helping the poor — and potentially even get a generous tax break.Â
Bloomberg: Banks May Get Leeway To Label NFL Stadium Funding As Aid To Poor Read More »
As the doubts clear, more and more actors in international development need to come around to the insight that the simplest, cleanest intervention often has the greatest effect.
If private equity is to work to the benefit of all stakeholders, then Congress needs to demonstrate the same talent for making markets work that bad actors on Wall Street have shown for sabotaging them.
Adults under 40 have been accumulating less and less wealth over the past 30 years, plummeting from owning 13% of the wealth in 1989 to less than 7% today.
