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The Hill, June 24, 2024, Housing Is ‘Impossibly Unaffordable’ In These US Cities Five U.S. cities are considered “impossibly unaffordable” when it comes to housing, placing them among the most expensive markets in the world, according to a new study. Researchers at Chapman University and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Canada analyzed 94 major cities in

The Washington Informer, June 26, 2024, CNN Faces Backlash for Excluding Black-Owned Media From Presidential Debate Coverage CNN has come under fire for denying media credentials to every Black-owned media entity, including those based in Atlanta, for the upcoming presidential debate on Thursday. Despite granting over 600 media credentials, not even one was extended to

KMUW, June 27, 2024, Salaries Are Not Keeping Pace With Housing Costs In The Midwest, Especially In Lincoln Lizzie Turner has witnessed the impact of unaffordable housing and discrimination firsthand. As a community organizer for non-profit Nebraska Appleseed’s housing justice program, Collective Impact Lincoln she advocates for people who are trying to find safe and affordable places to live.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, July 1, 2024, CFPB and FHFA Release Updated Data From The National Survey Of Mortgage Originations For Public Use The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today published updated loan-level data for public use collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO). The data

Modern Healthcare, June 26, 2024, Progress On Health Disparities Is Slow After 20 Years: Report The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine on Wednesday said law and policy changes aimed at eliminating health disparities have made slow and uneven progress improving racial inequities over the past 20 years. The Ending Unequal Treatment report found

Roosevelt Institute, August 1, 2024, The End Of Banking History? Finishing The Unfinished Business Of Financial Reform These are not the only items on the financial reform agenda. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection (Dodd-Frank) Act contained more than 300 provisions that either expressly required or permitted agency rulemaking (Copeland 2010). As of

wbur, Judge Approves Carney, August 1, 2024, Nashoba Valley Closures As Steward Crisis Deepens Massachusetts officials have admonished the real estate firms for blocking deals on Steward’s hospitals by trying to extract as much money as they can from the process. “The infighting, this brinkmanship … has led us to the place where we are

CFPB, July 9, 2024, CFPB Takes Action Against Fifth Third For Wrongfully Triggering Auto Repossessions And Opening Fake Bank Accounts The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today took action against repeat offender Fifth Third Bank for a range of illegal activities that would result in the bank paying $20 million in penalties in addition to

JD Supra, July 16, 2024, Chevron Is History. Implications For The 2023 Community Reinvestment Act Regulations When the Supreme Court decided in favor of the plaintiff in Loper Bright Enterprises et al vs. Gina Raimondo it overruled its decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the so-called “Chevron Decision” which has been in effect for more than