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Indiana Bank Accused of Discriminating Against Black Mortgage Applicants Must Provide $27 million to African American homebuyers
Out of the 2,260 housing loans given out by Old National Bank during the 2019-2020 year, only 37 of them went to Black borrowers.
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Black California Couple Sues Appraiser For Undervaluing Their Home
For the second appraisal, Paul and Tenisha Austin called on a white friend to act like she owned their home. The worth of their home nearly doubled.
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Mortgage Lender Fires Its Diversity Recruiting Team
Better.com’s algorithms are supposed to cut mortgage discrimination
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City Council Issues Apology for Racist Displacement of Thriving Blues City
The Hayward City Council passed a resolution to apologize to and acknowledge the residents and descendants of Russell City more than 50 years later.
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U.S. Justice Department Announces New Initiative to Tackle Racially Discriminatory Lending Practices
Despite being illegal, the practice of ‘redlining’ has still managed to harm communities of color for years.
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The Democratic Party’s ‘I Don’t See Color’ Homeownership Fight, Explained
A dispute over two opposing plans for first-time homebuyers shows how colorblind policies ignore racial disparities while actually increasing inequality.
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Black Homeowner in Indiana Files Discrimination Complaint When Appraisal of Home Increases by $100,000 After Removing Black Identifiers From Home
We talk about redlining like it’s a thing of the past, but like most of America’s racist systems it hasn’t really gone away—it’s just simply evolved. A Black homeowner in Indianapolis has filed a discrimination complaint after an appraisal on her house increased by $100,000. All she had to do was remove all traces of…
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Maybe America Is Racist
A few years ago, while covering a story on Republican New Hampshire legislator Werner Horn, I summoned the best and brightest scholars that America had to offer. Horn, who represents his 95.9 percent white hometown in his state’s House of Representatives, confounded people who actually know things by stating that “owning slaves doesn’t make you…
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Evanston, Ill. Becomes First American City to Launch Reparations Program for Black Residents
A small, Illinois suburb has finally done the thing that America has kept hand-wringing about since the end of slavery: reparations. The Washington Post reports that on Monday night the Evanston City Council voted 8-1 in favor of a resolution to launch the first phase of reparations in the city, with $450,000 being allocated towards…
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Racial Segregation and Concentrated Poverty: The History of Housing in Black America
“The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the federal government writ large in the first seven decades of the 20th century. [HUD] invested billions of dollars in racial segregation and concentrated poverty.” —Sheryll Cashin, law professor and author text On Jan. 26, 2021, President Joe Biden signed four executive orders designed to address racial…
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