Accountability
The lost homes of Detroit
Hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes should never have been charged, but Detroiters still had to pay or risk losing their homes.
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Biography
Emmanuel Martinez is a data reporter for Reveal. A graduate of UC Irvine, Martinez received his master’s degree from the University of Southern California, where he studied radio and data journalism. Prior to joining Reveal, he interned for KPCC, the Los Angeles NPR affiliate, where he helped reporters acquire, clean and analyze data. Martinez is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, office.
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Accountability
Think globally, report locally
A high number of high school sports concussions. A low number of arrests for sexual assault. Reveal’s Reporting Network digs in.
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Can algorithms be racist? Trump’s housing department says no
A new HUD rule would make it difficult for banks to be sued when their algorithms result in people of color being disproportionately denied housing.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to limit home loan data
The Trump administration intends to roll back Obama-era rules that dramatically expanded public access to home mortgage data.
The red line: Racial disparities in lending
In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more likely to deny mortgage loans to applicants of color than white ones.
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Back on the bus: A civil rights struggle rolls on
For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership. Philadelphia’s transit agency has been fighting to keep this story off the streets.
Housing
Sen. Warren’s new bill is designed to combat modern-day redlining
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a bill that one advocate said would be the first law since 1968 “to redress a century of housing discrimination.”
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Proposed changes to anti-redlining law would gut its intended purpose, advocates say
The Trump administration says focusing less on loans to low-income areas where banks have branches could lead to more lending elsewhere.
State AGs defend anti-housing discrimination rule, citing Reveal’s redlining investigation
Ben Carson wants to revisit an anti-housing-discrimination rule. Democratic state attorneys general want the rule left alone.
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First Republic Bank finances displacement of residents
First Republic Bank has fueled the displacement of families in Oakland by lending to landlords with histories of eviction.