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Black America deserves its fair share of the American Dream:   Affordable rentals shrinking, growing mortgage denials block homeownership    
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Black America deserves its fair share of the American Dream:   Affordable rentals shrinking, growing mortgage denials block homeownership    

Charlene Crowell, NNPA Newswire Contributor  April 28, 2022

Despite unprecedented federal housing assistance during the pandemic, a report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) finds stark racial and income divides in its analysis of the nation’s rental market. Nearly a quarter of Black renters were behind on rent in the third quarter of 2021, as well as 19% of Hispanic renters. By contrast, the share of white renters in arrears was half that: 9%.    

Abrams Tells Democrats: Go After Georgia, Irregular Voters
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Abrams Tells Democrats: Go After Georgia, Irregular Voters

Bill Barrow, Associated PressSeptember 12, 2019

Georgia’s Stacey Abrams dove headlong Monday into Democrats’ debate over how to win in 2020, urging her party to treat her diversifying state as a key battleground and replicate her effort to bring new minority and younger voters to the polls nationwide rather than chasing white voters lost long ago.

Debt and Rising Home Costs Continue to Defer Homeownership
Charlene CrowellOpinion

Debt and Rising Home Costs Continue to Defer Homeownership

Charlene CrowellNovember 8, 2018

A decade has passed since the housing collapse.  In that time, bank profits are back and continue to rise. Despite occasional trading fluctuations, the stock market remains profitable for most investors. Then there’s the low rate of unemployment that is often cited as if economic strides have included nearly everyone.

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Climate Change is a Public Health Crises: Blacks Mostly Absent From The Conversation

Simeon Gant, Special to California Black Media PartnersSeptember 20, 2018

Hundreds of people protested and disrupted this gathering of environmentalist, policymakers and business executives because – wait for it – the Governor hasn’t done enough to decarbonize California and reduce fossil fuel energy use. This, despite his recent signing of Senate Bill 100, which declared California only use clean, renewable energy by the year 2045.