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It’s Not a Housing Boom. It’s a Land Grab
by Imara Jones on May 30 2013, 7:00AM
This time, the runaway housing market is being fueled by Wall Street’s gobbling up properties. But the results will be just as bad for regular people as it was four years ago.
Topics: Economy
Homeowners to Eric Holder: Hold Banks Accountable
by Seth Freed Wessler on May 20 2013, 3:46PM
Protests outside the Justice Department are demanding prosecutions of banks responsible for the foreclosure crisis.
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Do You Accept Bloomberg Businessweek’s Apology for Its Racist Magazine Cover? [Reader Forum]
by Nia King on March 5 2013, 8:33AM
Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek ran a magazine cover featuring caricatures of Black and Latino people swimming in money, feeding it to their dogs, and burning it for warmth. Colorlines’ readers react.
Topics: Media
On Sapelo Island, Another Case Study in How Black Exploitation Fuels Wealth
by Imara Jones on October 1 2012, 9:37AM
From Georgia to Brooklyn to sub-Sahran Africa, inequity and exploitive land deals are making a handful of people rich—again. But on Sapelo Island, we can stop it.
Topics: Economy, History, Sapelo Island
The Racial Wealth Gap’s Larger Than Ever. Here’s How It Will Destroy Us
by Kai Wright on July 26 2011, 10:58AM
The wealth gap is now larger than it’s been since the Census Bureau began counting it. The foreclosure crisis is part of the reason, but its more symptom than cause for the building catastrophe in the U.S. economy.
Topics: Economy, Kai Wright, Wealth Gap
Ohio Homeowners Storm Chase Shareholders Meeting
by Asraa Mustufa on May 18 2011, 12:41PM
Dozens testified demanding accountability for Chase’s lending. The bank has rejected more modification applications than Bank of America and Wells Fargo combined.
Topics: Economy
Report: Big Banks Leaving Abandoned, Foreclosed Homes in Ohio
by Asraa Mustufa on May 10 2011, 12:03PM
Filings in at least three of the state’s cities were nearly three times more concentrated in communities of color than in majority white ones.
Topics: Economy
Neighbors Use Love to Fight Off Grandma’s Foreclosure
by Julianne Hing on April 6 2011, 6:12PM
On March 28 Catherine Lennon’s community, led by the housing rights group Take Back the Land Rochester, gathered around her to defend her home from eviction.
Topics: Celebrate Love
Foreclosed Families Descend on Capitol to Make Wall Street Pay
by Shani O. Hilton on March 8 2011, 9:43AM
Protestors call for the jailing of Wall Street bankers.
Topics: Politics
Backward Mobility and America’s Broken Promises
by Kai Wright on February 10 2011, 9:28AM
The recession is wiping out the jobs, homes, and dreams of the black middle class. There’s a lesson for our whole economy in that fact.
Topics: Economy, Jobs Crisis, Kai Wright, Wealth Gap
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
Race and Recession: No Recovery for Communities of Color
by Seth Freed Wessler, Channing Kennedy, Hatty Lee on July 8 2010, 2:00PM
Our original report examined the racial inequity that helped create the recession—and that the crisis has in turn intensified. More than a year later, little has changed.
Topics: Economy, Jobs Crisis
Race and Recession: Breaking Down the Numbers
by Hatty Lee on July 8 2010, 1:40PM
Foreclosure and unemployment continue to hit communities of color the hardest. Here are the numbers.
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Race and Recession: Foreclosure Losses Still Mounting
by Seth Freed Wessler on July 8 2010, 1:35PM
President Obama’s foreclosure prevention program has done little to slow the pace of loss in communities of color.
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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
U.S. Social Forum: Foreclosures Still the Story in Detroit
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 23 2010, 7:37AM
Bombed out houses and unemployment lines; empty factories and empty lots. These are the images that have come to animate Detroit’s decline, its deep and deepening depression.
Topics: Economy
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