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An investigation by The Markup has found that lenders in 2019 were more likely to deny home loans to people of color than to white people with similar financial characteristics → Read More
The Trump administration wants to reduce the public’s access to home mortgage information and limit the number of banks that have to disclose the race and gender of home loan applicants. → Read More
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.” → Read More
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Legal experts say Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage companies are carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act. → Read More
We received thousands of questions about redlining’s history and legality – and what everyday citizens can do about it. → Read More
Banks are required to lend in low- and moderate-income communities only if they have a branch in the area that takes deposits. → Read More
African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans. → Read More
A 1977 law, designed to correct redlining, didn’t anticipate a day when historically black neighborhoods would be sought by young white homebuyers. → Read More
Across America, a troubling pattern emerges in data analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting: Nearly two-thirds of mortgage lenders denied home loans for people of color at higher rates than for white people. But among the 6,600 U.S. lenders, some banks stood out for particularly extreme practices. → Read More
Reveal analyzed publicly available data released through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, combing through 31 million records for 2015 and 2016. → Read More
Among the 6,600 U.S. lenders, some stood out for particularly extreme practices. → Read More
Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country. → Read More
Mortgage data shows a troubling pattern of lending, even in major cities like Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Antonio: Banks block African Americans and Latinos from getting loans. → Read More
Across America, a troubling pattern emerges in data analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting: Nearly two-thirds of mortgage lenders denied home loans for people of color at higher rates than for white people. But among the 6,600 U.S. lenders, some banks stood out for... → Read More
Across America, a troubling pattern emerges in data analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting: Nearly two-thirds of mortgage lenders denied home loans for people of color at higher rates than for white people. But among the 6,600 → Read More
Across America, a troubling pattern emerges in data analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting: Nearly two-thirds of mortgage lenders denied home loans for people of color at higher rates than for white people. But among the 6,600 → Read More
New report finds that advocacy groups have filed a record number of FOIA lawsuits. → Read More
FOIA lawsuits hit 25-year high The number of lawsuits filed against the federal government over access to records is at an all-time high, according to a report released Tuesday by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a federal information research center at Syracuse University. The clearinghouse’s data shows that 63 lawsuits were filed in April, the most in any month in the last 25… → Read More
As the Trump administration moves forward with the president’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall, questions persist about the effectiveness of immigration enforcement that has forced migrants into i… → Read More