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Recent:
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Past:
  • ABC News
  • Reveal
  • Salon.com
  • Truthout
  • WSOCTV
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel
  • ChicoER
  • Grist

Past articles by Emmanuel:

The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms

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

CFPB moves to limit home loan data

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

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.” → Read More

Warren Buffett’s mortgage companies set up to cater to white clients

Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology. → Read More

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. → Read More

You had questions about modern-day redlining. We have answers

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

Chase rarely lends to people of color in DC – and it’s probably legal

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

For People of Color, Banks Are Shutting the Door to Homeownership

African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans. → Read More

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. → Read More

8 lenders that aren't serving people of color for home loans

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

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. → Read More

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. → Read More

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. → Read More

Modern-day redlining: Banks discriminate in lending

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

8 lenders that aren't serving people of color for home loans

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

8 lenders that aren’t serving people of color for home loans

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

8 lenders that aren’t serving people of color for home loans

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

Nonprofits seeking public information at record rates

New report finds that advocacy groups have filed a record number of FOIA lawsuits. → Read More

FOIA lawsuits hit 25-year high –

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

The deadliest route to the American dream

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