The Washington Post: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Wants More Low-Cost Housing In Affluent City Neighborhoods
The goal, officials say, is to correct a history of “racially discriminatory” housing policy.
Bloomberg: Watch Midsize Cities Fight Inequality And Gridlock
Megacities are too costly and seem immune to reform, while rural America is depopulating and lacks resources.
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The Brookings Institution: America’s Formerly Redlined Neighborhoods Have Changed, And So Must Solutions To Rectify Them
Proposals that base their remedies primarily on formerly redlined areas do not redress the main racial group that was explicitly targeted.
CityLab: It’s Time To Acknowledge That The Housing Crisis Is Global
Scarce, unaffordable housing is not a local problem in a few places, but is baked into the 21st-century global city. And it’s worst in the developing world.
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The Washington Post: This Trail-Blazing Suburb Has Tried For 60 Years To Tackle Race. What If Trying Isn’t Enough?
Shaker Heights, Ohio, has been a national model for racial integration for decades. Tackling academic disparities between Black and White students has proven far tougher.
NPR: Exclusive: Turf War Blocked CFPB From Helping Fix Student Loan Forgiveness Program
The Trump administration blocked the nation’s top consumer protection agency from digging into problems with a program designed to help police, firefighters and other public service workers.
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The Washington Post: We’re Still Taking Better Care Of Banks Than People
There’s got to be some despairing people thinking: “I wish I were the repo market because then policymakers would help me the minute I needed help.”
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The New York Times: How To Tax Our Way Back To Justice
Stop to think this over for a minute: For the first time in the past hundred years, the working class — the 50 percent of Americans with the lowest incomes — today pays higher tax rates than billionaires.
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The New York Times: How Italians Became ‘White’
Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it declared in 1790 that only “free white persons, who have, or shall migrate into the United States” were eligible to become naturalized citizens.
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The Washington Post: Should Newly Rebuilt Homes Pay Impact Fees? This Montgomery Official Thinks So.
Maryland’s largest jurisdiction has an affordable housing shortage — and according to one local official, a segment of the population has not been contributing its fair share to address it.
Reparations Can Help Bridge The Racial Wealth Divide
Ever since the abolition of slavery more than 150 years ago, African Americans have been suffering from oppressive structures that uphold poverty. These enduring systems have resulted in the income and wealth disparities between Black and White communities we see today
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Latinos, the Racial Wealth Divide and Rebuilding the American Middle Class
As National Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) developed a Latino Racial Wealth Snapshot to reflect on the diversity, culture and socioeconomic challenges facing the nation’s largest ethnic group of color. With a total of 58.8 million (foreign-born: 36%; native-born: 62%), the Latino community ranks at 18.1% of the U.S.
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Racial Wealth Snapshot: Latino Americans
Defining Hispanic and Latino In census data, Hispanic is the term most often used to describe the ethnicity of the people in the United States from Spanish speaking countries. However, it is most often thought of as a person from or has ancestry in Latin America, excluding people from Spain. The term Latino, shorthand for
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Roll Call: Rise of Fintech Weakens Law to Prevent Lending Discrimination
By the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s count, only 30% of mortgage lending falls under CRA obligations, and as more types of lending expand online, CEO Jesse Van Tol worries that fewer small business loans will go to low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.
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Brookings: Double Tipping Points In 2019: When The World Became Mostly Rich And Largely Old
When it comes to economic development, positive change is typically gradual and only noticeable over long periods of time; by contrast negative developments—economic crises—are often rapid and spectacular.