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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. "There's rental discrimination — landlords consistently discriminate against Black, brown and Asian folk," he said. There's also the practice of real estate agents directing potential homebuyers toward a particular neighborhood based on the buyer's race. And there are instances of landlords harassing tenants over their failure to pay the rent — a problem that's especially acute as millions of jobless people face evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Bla...

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 between white and Black in home ownership is now larger than it was in 1960," Susan Rice, head of the ...

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 codify provisions wiping out some of President Donald Trump's signature hard-line policies, includi...

Protesters Caught In NYPD's 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 from either end with batons, bikes, and pepper-spray. More than 250 demonstrators were arrested, mo...

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 Biden's 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 televised speech denouncing the stimulus bill that was winding its way to his desk, saying it was f...