Racial bias

Dave Uejio, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, promised to protect veterans from predatory loans and to crack down on companies that improperly garnish stimulus checks or mistreat struggling borrowers.

The president’s executive action looks to assess the impact of the previous administration's alterations to the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing and Disparate Impact rules, while reinforcing Biden’s vow to eliminate discriminatory lending practices.

As housing and lending companies try to eradicate racism and bias from their industries, automated valuation tools could help reach that goal, according to the American Enterprise Institute.

Just like the industries that they cover, the lack of Black representation among news outlets acts as a barrier against understanding and eliminating systemic racism.

While it's no silver bullet, automation with careful monitoring and testing can help lenders eliminate racial bias toward potential borrowers, the developers say.

The affordable housing nonprofit's Equitable Path Forward initiative seeks to eliminate "the deep-rooted legacy of racism in housing."

The flow of assets and capital in manager selection, municipal bonds and business and mortgage capital reveals forms of systemic racism that often get overlooked.

The flow of assets and capital in manager selection, municipal bonds and business and mortgage capital reveals forms of systemic racism that often get overlooked.

The hurdles faced by Black professionals who break into the financial services belie the notion that their small numbers at the industry’s top ranks are a pipeline problem.

“What Realtors did was an outrage to our morals and our ideals,” the incoming president of the National Association of Realtors, Charlie Oppler said Thursday.