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The White House just took steps to combat housing discrimination. States and local governments should follow.
August 8, 2024By Jasmine Rangel, Smartcities Dive The White House is making important strides in fair housing with new measures to protect renters from discriminatory screening practices. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's new guidance addresses...
Guaranteed Income Helps Move Almost 300 People Into Housing After One Year
July 3, 2024By: Bennito L. Kelty, Westword Denver's basic income pilot is changing lives! Over 800 Coloradans experiencing homelessness received direct cash payments with no strings attached. The one-year report shows a 45% increase in securing housing and...
Decades of Disinvestment: Historic Redlining and Mortgage Lending Since 1981
June 4, 2024The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has just released a comprehensive analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data spanning 40 years. The report reveals that despite laws against discriminatory lending practices, race-based...
Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap
September 19, 2023Undeniably, discrimination, structural inequality, and biases in institutions are the root causes of the vast racial wealth gap in the United States. By Ricardo Mimbela & Katie Duarte, ACLU (Read...
Lahaina Residents Worry a Rebuilt Maui Town Could Slip into the Hands of Affluent Outsiders
August 17, 2023Maui is facing a major housing crisis after the recent wildfires. Priority must be given to ensuring residents have basic needs and are not displaced from their native land. By Audrey McAvoy and Claire Rush, AP News (Read...
Native Americans Struggle To Obtain Credit: A Close Analysis Of Native American Mortgage Lending From 2018-2021
February 28, 2023Native Americans continue to be disproportionately underrepresented in the U.S. economy, and barriers to mortgage loans perpetuate this inequity. By Jason Richardson, NCRC (Read...
Historic Funding to Boost Housing, Health Care for Native Tribes
February 6, 2023Native American tribes across the US tapping into about $20 billion in pandemic relief for economic and social recovery project is but a fraction of the resources, lands and traditions that was stolen from them. By Sri Taylor, Bloomberg (Read...
How Home Appraisal Methods Can End Up Perpetuating Racial Inequality
December 19, 2022The devaluing of Black lives and property perpetuates racial inequality. By Samantha Fields, Marketplace (Read...
Study Reveals Encampment Sweeps Are Harmful to Homeless People’s Health
December 7, 2022By Sarah Hall, https://invisiblepeople.tv A recent study found that street sweeps of homeless encampments may be harmful to the health of people experiencing homelessness. Municipal agencies clear out encampments and dispose of everything they find...
Racism Led to Lower Benefits for Black Veterans, Studies Find
November 14, 2022By Joe Davidson, The Washington Post (Read...