Legal experts say Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage companies are carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act.
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The Democratic Senator said officials are rolling back anti-discrimination protections for people of color in the face of modern-day redlining.
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JPMorgan Chase will open 70 new branches in the District.
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Here’s what the Treasury Department’s changes would do, and wouldn’t, toward solving four major problems we have outlined in our investigation.
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Though blacks and whites represent similar shares of the population in the Philadelphia metro area, Reveal found white borrowers received 10 times as many conventional home loans as black ones.
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We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.
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Chase’s only DC office isn’t technically a branch, which allows it to dodge CRA regulations.
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As the Trump administration withdraws from enforcing consumer protection and fair lending law, state attorneys general are stepping into the breach.
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A study found that minorities are denied mortgages more than whites, even when accounting for income and other factors.
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Reveal exposes modern-day redlining is occurring in at least 61 US cities. In Philadelphia, black applicants there were almost three times as likely to be denied a conventional home purchase loan as white applicants. And this discrimination isn’t just a few banks, nearly two-thirds of mortgage lenders are still discriminating against clients of color.
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An analysis of 31 million mortgage records made available under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act found 61 metro areas across America where people of color were denied conventional home purchase loans at significantly higher rates than whites.
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Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.
Reveal: For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership Read More »
Millions of mortgage records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting show that the legacy of redlining persists.
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The block grant program and other federal programs that have assisted communities with about $8 billion annually for cleaner water, safer sidewalks, streetlights and sewage treatment are on the chopping block in Washington.
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