Housing
The homewreckers: How Trump cronies are sabotaging the American dream
The story of one L.A. house illustrates the tens of thousands now off the market for working-class and first-time homebuyers.
Housing
Housing
Profiting off pain: Trump confidant cashed in on housing crisis
One of President Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants took advantage of the Great Recession to build an unprecedented real estate business that makes him tantamount to a modern-day slumlord – buying up homes, bumping up rents and allowing the properties to fall into disrepair.
The Trump Era
After the bubble burst
This episode of Reveal takes you into the world of people who are still profiting from America’s housing bust, from rent-to-own investors in Detroit to President Donald Trump’s best friend, a real estate mogul.
Housing
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.
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.”
Housing
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.
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.
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.
Housing
3 investigations opened after Reveal uncovers redlining in Philly
The treasurer and attorney general said they would probe possible discrimination in mortgage lending. The Philadelphia City Council plans hearings.
Housing
Politicians express outrage about lending disparities
At the national and state levels, they vow to ensure people of color get equal access to home loans and the public gets access to lending information.
