Emmanuel Martinez, Author at Reveal

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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.

First Republic Bank has fueled the displacement of families in Oakland by lending to landlords with histories of eviction.

Smaller banks would be exempted from having to report mortgage applications to the federal government under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.

There’s always more to the story on Reveal. This week, we look at the impact three shows have made since they first ran.

Legal experts say Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage companies are carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act.

The biggest bank in America announced a major expansion into the nation’s capital, promising to open 70 new branches.

Here’s what the Treasury Department’s changes would do, and wouldn’t, toward solving four major problems we have outlined in our investigation.

We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it.

Banks are required to lend in low- and moderate-income communities only if they have a branch in the area that takes deposits.

As the Trump administration withdraws from enforcing consumer protection and fair lending law, state attorneys general are stepping into the breach.