The Intercept: The fake public comments supporting a bank merger are coming from inside the house
Incidences of fake comments delivered to the government to boost support for a particular regulatory position have become epidemic.
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Fast Company: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to help end the housing crisis
With $45 billion in annual funding over 10 years, the progressive senator is proposing a solution that would fund a massive investment in creating more affordable housing.
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American Banker: OCC should improve CRA, not gut it
While much in the OCC’s initial draft raises concerns, there is an opportunity to take a good, but incomplete law and make it better.
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CNBC: Racial wealth inequality is worsened by student debt, study finds
White borrowers pay down their education debt at a rate of 10 percent a year, compared with 4 percent for black borrowers, a study finds.
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Bloomberg: America needs to revive the American dream of homeownership
Government should help low-income buyers and give cities incentives to boost housing construction.
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The Verge: How bad maps are ruining American broadband
ISPs are painting over US broadband problems, and the FCC is letting it happen.
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Washington Post: Non-bank lenders are back and even bigger than before
More than half of all mortgages issued last year came from non-bank lenders, up from 9 percent in 2009 and higher than non-banks’ market share before the financial crisis.
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The New York Times: News site to investigate big tech, helped by Craigslist founder
The Markup, dedicated to investigating technology and its effect on society and racial biases, will be led by two former ProPublica journalists.
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Axios: Airbnb asks SEC to let it give hosts equity
Airbnb has sent a comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, asking it to allow the home-sharing company to give equity to its hosts.
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CityLab: When a hospital plays housing developer
A children’s hospital in Columbus, Ohio, is trying to treat a difficult patient: Its own struggling neighborhood.
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The Atlantic: Wages are low and workers are scarce. Wait, what?
The low unemployment rate and stagnant pay point to a depressed economy underneath.
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The GroundTruth Project: Crossing the Divide; California
“They called it urban renewal; we call it urban removal,” said church member Alexander T. Williams.
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Slate: Black space, white blindness
Why white Americans have such a hard time picturing a middle-class black neighborhood.
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Chicago Tribune: Starbucks, florists and other warning signs a neighborhood’s home prices are about to go up
Starbucks doesn’t follow the gentrifiers, it paves the way for them.
Politico: Warren slams Mulvaney for donor meeting
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) suggested Wednesday that Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, may have violated federal law by speaking to a group of donors, in the latest of a series of stinging letters to the Trump administration official.
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