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    Kept out: How banks block people of color from homeownership

    https://apnews.com/ae4b40a720b74…

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.

    This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount and neighborhood, according to millions of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records analyzed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

    The yearlong analysis, based on 31 million records, relied on techniques used by leading academics, the Federal Reserve and Department of Justice to identify lending disparities.

    • "Credit score was not included [in the analysis] because that information is not publicly available"Gnash
    • pretty much makes the findings meaninglessGnash
    • not necessarilymonospaced
    • Yes, necessarily.set
    • even in the 'case study' they used as an example it turned out to be and unpaid bill (bad credit) that was the cause of the loan rejectionGnash
    • YEA BUT RACISMset

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