Housing
Warren Buffett’s mortgage companies set up to cater to white clients
Legal experts say Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage companies are carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act.
Staff
Biography
Aaron Glantz is a senior reporter at Reveal and the author of "Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream." Glantz produces journalism with impact. His work has sparked more than a dozen congressional hearings, numerous laws and criminal probes by the Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. A two-time Peabody Award winner, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, multiple Emmy Award nominee and former John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, Glantz has had his work has appear in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America and PBS NewsHour. His previous books include "The War Comes Home" and "How America Lost Iraq." He is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California office.
Articles
Housing
Warren calls out ‘disturbing pattern’ of fair housing changes
The Democratic senator says officials are rolling back anti-discrimination protections for people of color in the face of modern-day redlining.
Housing
Chase announces major expansion in DC
The biggest bank in America announced a major expansion into the nation’s capital, promising to open 70 new branches.
Housing
The Fair Housing Act’s unkept promises
Today, the homeownership gap between black people and white people is greater than it was when segregation and discrimination were legal.
Housing
Does the Treasury plan to modernize anti-blight laws stack up?
Here’s what the Treasury Department’s changes would do, and wouldn’t, toward solving four major problems we have outlined in our investigation.
Kept Out
Community groups offer redlining solutions to Philadelphia City Council
One councilman calls the loan disparities unearthed by Reveal “a tale of two cities.” Lenders declined invitations to appear at the hearing.
Housing
You had questions about modern-day redlining. We have answers
We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.
Kept Out
Chase rarely lends to people of color in DC – and it’s probably legal
Banks are required to lend in low- and moderate-income communities only if they have a branch in the area that takes deposits.
Kept Out
State attorneys general probe lending disparities
As the Trump administration withdraws from enforcing consumer protection and fair lending law, state attorneys general are stepping into the breach.
Housing
Congress grills new Federal Reserve chairman on redlining
Members of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee ask Jerome H. Powell how he plans to address disparities in lending between whites and others.