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Officials say the case came to HUD’s attention when Savannah-Chatham County Fair Housing Council and the mother of two minor children filed complaints alleging that Michael N. and Fonda W. Parker employed a policy limiting the number of children that could reside in their apartments.

In the United States, women now own 12.3 million companies — an increase of almost 60% compared to 10 years ago. These women-owned firms employ more than 8 million people and provide $264 billion in wages to employees.

This is the theory of the unitary executive. The executive branch has a single org chart. And the president must be above everyone else in that chart.

Student debt is not only a crisis for black borrowers but the whole country. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.

She’d lived on this historically black D.C. block for 40 years. Now the city she knew was vanishing, and so was her place in it.

Artificial intelligence in housing could completely change the way we buy, sell and live.

Millions more American children are attending school with students of other races, even as many urban schools remain deeply segregated.

The Trump administration has made no secret of its xenophobia from its first days in office. The number of refugees arriving in the country plummeted from around 97,000 in 2016 to 23,000 in 2018.

Essentially it boils down to a problem of money. Because of scant concern on the part of haves for housing affordability challenges faced by have-nots, relatively little political support exists for taxation needed to effectively address and solve affordable housing problems.

Across Baltimore, the hottest areas tend to be the poorest and that pattern is not unusual. In dozens of major U.S. cities, low-income neighborhoods are more likely to be hotter than their wealthier counterparts, according to a joint investigation by NPR and the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism.

Washington-area elected officials voted Wednesday to push their local governments to address the region’s affordable-housing shortage by setting individual targets to increase production of low- and medium-cost housing by 2

The expanding gap between rich and poor is not only widening the gulf in incomes and wealth in America. It is helping the rich lead longer lives, while cutting short the lives of those who are struggling, according to a study released this week by the Government Accountability Office.

Wendy Johnson, executive director of the JUSTA Center, a seniors-only facility in Phoenix with temporary housing and services to help people rebuild their lives, said the center assisted about 250 seniors in 2015 but is on track to help almost 1,200 this year. Still, it’s tough to increase capacity.

Last month, the bureau counted 29.234 million educated women, compared to 29.069 million men; and although the difference may seem marginal, this is a crucial milestone for the female workforce.

“California is at the doorstep of enacting strong, statewide renter protections — safeguards that are critical to combating our state’s housing and cost-of-living crisis,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said after the Senate vote.