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There are a variety of forms of housing discrimination, said Perry, which makes addressing them complex. Some occur daily, he said. "Theres rental discrimination — landlords consistently discriminate against Black, brown and Asian folk," he said. Theres also the practice of real estate agents directing potential homebuyers toward a particular neighborhood based on the buyers race. And there are instances of landlords harassing tenants over their failure to pay the rent — a problem thats esp...

Listen • 5:04 Housing discrimination against communities of color also involves lenders, local zoning laws and other issues, says Andre Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Biden administration says the federal government needs to do a better job of acknowledging the ways that communities of color are blocked from fair and equal access to housing. "Today the average Black family has just one-tenth the wealth of the average white family, while the gap be...

On immigration, Biden seeks new approach to old deadlock CNN 1/26/2021 Analysis by Ronald Brownstein © Evan Vucci/AP FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden waits to sign his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. As one of his first acts, Biden offered a sweeping immigration overhaul that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship for the estimated 11 million people who are in the United States illegally. It would also...

Protesters Caught In NYPDs Violent Mott Haven Crackdown Push For Community Reparations Fund arrow NYPD officers arrest a protester in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx on June 4th, 2020. C.S. Muncy / Gothamist On June 4th, LoriKim Alexander, a 44-year-old Bronx resident, was marching against police brutality in the borough’s Mott Haven neighborhood. Without warning, hundreds of heavily armored NYPD officers trapped the group on a narrow street, then rushed at them ...

Print this article " Infrastructure Week" would have been a week blocked out in Congress to debate and pass a bipartisan bill to fund more roads, bridges, and the like during the Trump administration. The term became a taunt because the effort got pushed back so often by other priorities that it never happened. President-elect Joe Bidens team announced a delay of its own infrastructure week as well. It is partly due to the demands of President Trump. On Dec. 23, 2020, Trump gave a nationally ...

The Bel Airs spend a lot of time on the road, but the band usually plays New Year’s Eve at home in Columbia. That won’t happen this year. Michael Cherry, 63, has been the drummer for the Columbia-based rock, rhythm and blues band for 25 years. “And I’m the new guy,” he said. While some musicians lost a hobby or a side business with the pandemic, Cherry lost a living. Since The Bel Airs went their separate ways when the pandemic hit in March, Cherry has been doing a hodg...

Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas gained the most new residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and that could mean they get more seats in Congress.

Illinois is shrinking.

The great migration of 2020: People from New York and California moved in droves this year - here are the states that benefited from the mass exodus, from Idaho to Texas Business Insider India 24-12-2020 Taylor Borden © Gypsy Picture Show/Getty Images The great migration of 2020: People from New York and California moved in droves this year - here are the states that benefited from the mass exodus, from Idaho to Texas The US Census Bureau released data this week that showed...

The great migration of 2020: People from New York and California moved in droves this year — here are the states that benefited from the mass exodus, from Idaho to Texas Taylor Borden Idahos population increased by 2.1% over the past year — the highest increase in the country. The US Census Bureau released data this week that showed the US population grew by just 0.35% between 2019 and 2020 - the smallest rate in the last 120 years. Still, there were significant shi...