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Get out there and vote, will you? Early voting numbers are down across North Texas.
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Get out there and vote, will you? Early voting numbers are down across North Texas.
The discriminatory practice of redlining may have been outlawed in 1968, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. On Wednesday, the Dallas Media Collaborative will host a panel discussion that examines modern redlining in Dallas.
While banks lend relatively little money in the minority neighborhoods while investing millions in slum apartments, a problem regulators have chosen not to address.
Thirteen cities around the country have some form of a Responsible Banking Ordinance, Dallas now becomes the first in Texas.
The full council will soon vote on a responsible banking ordinance, which would require banks seeking to take city’s deposits first show that they lend equitably