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How Foreclosure Undermined Black and Brown Wealth
by Imara Jones on May 16 2013, 5:14PM
This foreclosure tidal wave is why wealth for blacks and Latinos is at the lowest level ever recorded. Housing is the leading wealth asset for these two communities.
Topics: /NOW Blog
Report: Government Abandoned Integration of Housing For Decades
by Seth Freed Wessler on October 29 2012, 11:22AM
The Fair Housing Act has been largely ignored for 40 years, according to a new investigation.
Topics: /NOW Blog
New Federal Rule Makes LGBT Housing Discrimination Illegal
by Jorge Rivas on January 30 2012, 11:04AM
The Obama Administration announced historic new federal rules that will strengthen housing discrimination protections for transgender and other LGBT people.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, /NOW Blog
Honoring Eric Quezada’s Love for San Francisco’s Mission District
by Hatty Lee on October 4 2011, 5:29PM
We take a moment to remember the work of a remarkable educator and organizer who fought gentrification alongside immigrant and low wage workers.
Topics: Celebrate Love
The Endemic Fraud the Foreclosure Scandal Reveals—Again
by Kai Wright on October 22 2010, 10:28AM
And President Obama’s willful complicity in Wall Street’s scam.
Topics: Economy
Katrina Survivors in Alabama are STILL Waiting for Help
by Julianne Hing on October 20 2010, 12:05PM
In one poor town, they’re scraping together volunteer labor and donated materials to get out of tent cities.
Topics: Economy
Federal Housing Protections for Transgender Tenants
by Jamilah King on July 27 2010, 12:48PM
HUD expands its interpretation of the Fair Housing Act to cover gender identity.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
No End in Sight for Foreclosures
by Michelle Chen on June 23 2010, 7:47AM
The recession still has more damage to do. And a new Center for Responsible Lending report says Black and Latino homeowners will continue feeling the worst of it.
Topics: Economy
A Just Cause vs. an Unjust Eviction: Q&A with Karen Mims [VIDEO]
by Channing Kennedy on August 17 2009, 6:07AM
Last year, a speculator showed up to inspect Karen Mims’ home. That’s how Karen found out that her home of 12 years was getting foreclosed on. Fast-forward through a year of legal struggles and unanswered phone calls. At 6:00…
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by Michelle Chen on June 3 2009, 8:53PM
The connection between housing and child development has attracted considerable public fascination—most recently with the dissection of how young Sonia Sotomayor, growing up in a Bronx housing project, “overcame the odds.” One New York advocacy group is putting a…
Topics: Health
Vacancy Decontrol Is Hurting New York’s Immigrant Communities
by Guest Columnist on April 20 2009, 3:18PM
By Shan Rehman photo credit: Seth Wessler Predatory equity has become an increasingly visible part of New York City’s real estate landscape. Investors buy apartment buildings that house low-to-moderate income tenants at low prices, and then vacate as many units…
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Act Now! Keep Families in their Homes!
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 17 2009, 10:22AM
The battle to save rent regulation is at a critical moment in New York City. Immigrants are more likely than native-born New Yorkers to live in rent-stabilized housing, and they live in neighborhoods where rents have increased dramatically. Rent…
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Investment Opportunity!: Countrywide Alumni Profiting from Economic Crisis Now Seek Investors
by Dom Apollon on March 4 2009, 6:37AM
The New York Times is reporting today that alumni from Countrywide Financial — one of the chief culprits of the greed-fueled subprime mortgage debacle that largely sparked our current global economic crisis — are now profiting from the purchase of…
Topics: Economy
by Michelle Chen on February 20 2009, 2:50PM
It took a total collapse of the mortgage bubble to expose the intrinsic contradictions of the country’s housing system: the foreclosure epidemic has produced countless idle houses, inviting blight and economic decline into once-vibrant neighborhoods; and on the flipside,…
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