NEW FAIR HOUSING NEWS

Freddie Mac Study Finds Black And Latino Homeowners Are Almost Twice As Likely As Whites To Get Low Appraisals. Read the September 23, 2021 NPR article.

 NLIHC's “Out of Reach 2021: The High Cost of Housing” Report Finds Millions of Low-Income Renters Suffering Most. Out of Reach 2021: The High Cost of Housing. https://reports.nlihc.org/oor. Read the July 14, 2021 NLIHC release.

New Study Shows Negative Impact of Lynching History on Life Expectancy Today. New study. Read the Science Daily article.

 2020 FBI Hate Crimes Data is the Highest in 12 Years.  Interactive hate crime map  ADL Hate Crime Map. Read the August 30, 2021 ADL release.

 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data Shows Refi Boom During Pandemic, But Not for Black and Hispanic Homeowners Whose Share of Refinance Loans Declined. New analysis. https://ncrc.org/2020-hmda-preliminary-analysis/. Read the August 19, 2021 NCRC release.

Howard County Libraries Open Equity Resource Center About Racism, Culture, & History. https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/cng-ho-library-equity-resource-center-20210928-nduzxwn5rrgddghcpeazz7mdrq-story.html.

Study Finds US Loan Applicants of Color Were 40%–80% More Likely to be Denied than Their White Counterparts. In Some Metros, the Disparity Was Over 250%. Read the August 25, 2021 Markup article.

 And many more news stories are on this issue of he GBCHRB's Fair Housing E-News: fhnews21sepoct.pdf.

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