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.”
Tag: lending discrimination
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A Stacked Deck: A visual look at discriminatory lending in the U.S.
People of color continue to be denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.
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Gentrification became low-income lending law’s unintended consequence
A 1977 law, designed to correct redlining, didn’t anticipate a day when historically black neighborhoods would be sought by young white homebuyers.
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How we identified lending disparities in federal mortgage data
Reveal analyzed publicly available data released through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, combing through 31 million records for 2015 and 2016.
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8 lenders that aren’t serving people of color for home loans
Among the 6,600 U.S. lenders, some stood out for particularly extreme practices.
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For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership
Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.