The New York Times: A license to discriminate
Congress should recognize that the impact of consumer tracking varies greatly by race, class and power.
The New York Times: A license to discriminate Read More »
Congress should recognize that the impact of consumer tracking varies greatly by race, class and power.
The New York Times: A license to discriminate Read More »
Squatters turned an abandoned schoolhouse into a thriving arts center. Then it was sold to a developer, who evicted the tenants. Nearly two decades later, the building remains vacant.
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“This is purportedly a way to reduce burden. However, because the data points covered by the rule are already collected by lenders, the burden associated with the rule is minimal,” according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition letter.
“This is purportedly a way to reduce burden. However, because the data points covered by the rule are already collected by lenders, the burden associated with the rule is minimal,” according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition letter.
Why transit-oriented development projects need to include affordable housing amid all those luxury condos and cafés.
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Toni Griffin, one of the leading black women in architecture and design, is leading her students at Harvard in envisioning and designing the “just city.” And it looks different in Boston than it does in Rotterdam.
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“We are concerned about this trend throughout the financial services industry,” said Stella Adams, Chief of Equity and Inclusion at National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization that works to promote diversity in banking, housing and business. “Many minority borrowers are looking for trusted financial advisors that reflect the diversity of the marketplace. A recent report from the GAO shows that the industry is underperforming based upon the talent available in the workforce.”
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That’s the claim made by the authors of The Inner Level, which furthers arguments first laid out in their 2009 work, The Spirit Level. They reveal the bleak truth about uneven societies
Without watchdogs, government costs go up, according to new research.
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Under the new law, smaller banks with fewer than 500 closed-end loans or open-end credit lines do not have to report the additional data fields required by Dodd-Frank. The banks still collect the data, according to a letter sent to Congress by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, but are not required to report it.
In my neighborhood in the Philadelphia suburbs, there are financial institutions everywhere, of all kinds—global conglomerates, credit unions, community banks, and much else. Combining census data from 2010 and this useful tool from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, my ZIP code has one physical bank branch for roughly every 1,500 people.
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Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Bell knows to anticipate soft bigotries even in elements like design. “The problem here was the layout,” she says. “It was a side-piece… The layout doesn’t speak to the severity of these issues.”
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Regulators have viewed the Volcker rule as too complicated to enforce. Both the current Fed chairman, Jerome H. Powell, and his predecessor, Janet L. Yellen, have called for simplification of the rule.
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Scorching report on poverty finds ‘systematic attack on welfare program’ will leave millions deprived of food and healthcare.
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