As unhoused people increasingly live in residential neighborhoods, their new neighbors have turned to one place for help in particular: the police.
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Handcuffed and Unhoused
A hidden side of homelessness: Unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.
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Handcuffed and Unhoused
As homelessness rises, unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.
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The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms
Even accounting for factors lenders said would explain disparities, people of color are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than White people.
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Eviction moratoriums didn’t stop judges in one Ohio city from ousting hundreds from their homes
Tenants were evicted even when landlords didn’t follow the publicly stated rules.
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Mayor Pete has a redlining problem in Indiana
While presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend, most home loans in his town went to white families in white neighborhoods.
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Public housing tenants get $650,000 settlement for squalid living conditions
A Reveal investigation showed that officials allowed the housing project in Richmond, California to be overrun with roaches, mice, squatters and mold.
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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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Congress sends bank regulation rollback to Trump
Smaller banks would be exempted from having to report mortgage applications to the federal government under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
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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.