Scapegoating Blacks for the Economic Crisis
A simple, yet likely powerful, explanation has now been offered for the subprime mortgage-lending and foreclosure problems that have fed the nation’s gravest economic crisis since the Depression. Its simplicity […]
A Fair Housing Agenda for 2008 and Beyond
With more than 3.7 million instances of housing discrimination occurring annually and segregation remaining a central feature of the nation’s housing markets, fair housing remains the critical unfinished agenda of […]
Abolishing HUD, Simplistic Solution to Complex Problems
A call to eliminate HUD will easily attract many right-wing politicos, and apparently others as well — and it is appealing. That said, while all of us can point to […]
Race and Class: Katrina vs. Iowa
Concentrated poverty and hypersegregation generate wide-ranging costs in almost every major U.S. city, particularly for less favored populations. New Orleans clearly fits this description. Cedar Rapids less so. The problems […]
Predatory Lending: Redlining in Reverse
The proverbial American dream of owning a home has become an all-too-real nightmare for a growing number of families. Take the case of Florence McKnight, an 84-year-old Rochester widow who, […]
Insurance Redlining: Still Fact, Not Fiction
Homeowner insurance redlining discriminates against Blacks and undermines urban redevelopment.