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Reveal submits testimony to Congress
Senior reporter Aaron Glantz shares the findings of Reveal’s investigation into modern-day redlining with the House Financial Services Committee.
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Housing
Class-action suit against landlord giant gets go-ahead
A federal district court judge has given the go-ahead for tenants of one of the largest landlords in America to pursue a class-action lawsuit.
Housing
ABC News investigates giant corporate landlord, citing Reveal’s exposé
Housing company representative defends its “professionalism, dedicated resources, and a lot of energy and desire to service our residents.”
Housing
The homewreckers: How Trump cronies are sabotaging the American dream
The story of one L.A. house illustrates the tens of thousands now off the market for working-class and first-time homebuyers.
Housing
Tenants demand rent freeze from a top U.S. corporate landlord
Tenants of one of America’s largest corporate landlords briefly occupied the San Francisco offices of the chairman of its board Thursday, delivering a petition signed by 1,400 people demanding a rent freeze in all of the company’s rental properties.
Housing
Tenants decry conditions, raised rent in Colony Starwood homes
Tenants who rent homes from one of America’s largest corporate landlords are asking the company to stop increasing their rent and address what they say is endemic neglect of the properties.
Housing
Profiting off pain: Trump confidant cashed in on housing crisis
One of President Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants took advantage of the Great Recession to build an unprecedented real estate business that makes him tantamount to a modern-day slumlord – buying up homes, bumping up rents and allowing the properties to fall into disrepair.
Environment
La industria de las fresas en California está adicta a peligrosos pesticidas
La industria de fresas de $2.6 billones de California depende de un tipo de pesticidas llamados fumigantes, que han sido relacionados con el cáncer, problemas de desarrollo y el agotamiento del ozono.
Environment
California’s strawberry industry is hooked on dangerous pesticides
California’s strawberry growers rely on heavy amounts of dangerous pesticides to deliver fruit year-round at an affordable price. But the health and environmental problems that come with those chemicals have threatened the foundation of a $2.6 billion industry.
Border Patrol
Border Patrol agent kills unarmed drug smuggler. Was it justified?
A Border Patrol agent in Texas shoots a young, unarmed drug smuggler in the back. The ensuing investigation goes nowhere.