Friday, February 13, 2009

Mortgage Discrimination TC-Planet-2008 US Senate MN

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North Minneapolis has been hit particularly hard by the foreclosure crisis, and subprime lending has been a major factor.

February 13, 2009

Lenders discriminate. Housing is segregated. Communities of color are hit harder by the foreclosure crisis than anyone else. That’s the ugly face of racial discrimination in the Twin Cities revealed in a 54-page report released by the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School.

People of color “continue to receive home loans on worse terms and at a higher cost than similarly situated white borrowers, according to “Communities in Crisis: Race and Mortgage Lending in the Twin Cities”. Higher incomes did not protect people of color from lending disparities, with high-income black, Latino and Asian applicants denied

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