Diversity and equality
Diversity and equality
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The Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act would direct the Fed to consider racial inequality in employment, income and access to affordable credit when making monetary policy and in its regulation and supervision of banks.
August 5 -
For 32 years, the Bay Area city of Sausalito has used strict zoning restrictions to protect its scrappy industrial waterfront, banning both housing and offices in the 225-acre Marinship district, which stretches for about a mile north of downtown.
August 5 -
Black homeownership grew for the fourth quarter in a row, hitting its largest percentage since 2004 despite disproportionate impacts of the coronavirus.
July 29 -
The Trump administration's executive order to terminate and replace federal enforcement of anti-discrimination policies at the local level, citing the burden it put on municipalities, enraged advocates of equitable housing practices.
July 23 -
The chairman of the Association of Independent Mortgage Experts is distancing himself from the organization after a Quicken Loans executive's wife filed a defamation lawsuit against him for vulgar group texts.
July 17 -
Remarks that the head of the mortgage broker association made about a Quicken Loan executive's wife in a video text exchange led to a defamation lawsuit, and housing-finance companies are taking sides.
July 16 -
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The consumer agency alleges Townstone Financial's CEO and president made statements on a radio show discouraging applicants living in Black neighborhoods from seeking home loans.
July 15 -
He co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance, Public Advocates and the Greenlining Institute.
July 14 -
A man who started a mortgage brokers group issued a statement indicating he regretted saying "lewd" personal things about a Quicken Loans executive’s spouse while sparring over a professional matter.
July 13