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Journalist Oscar Perry Abello has been reporting on local banks for years and is now working on a book about it. He joined "The Metro" to discuss.

Property tax systems are how most of us pay for local government. Even if we don’t own our own homes or commercial spaces, landlords typically pass through the cost of property taxes to tenants. Local property tax systems in turn play a huge role in planning, zoning, placemaking, and capital improvement planning.  Upon closer inspection, property tax systems everywhere overburden some communities while under-burdening others. The pattern of those communities is one familiar to many — it’s the pattern of redlining. Property tax systems have been helping preserve racial di...

Racial justice advocates have been demanding for years that federal banking regulators use their authority under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), enacted in 1977, to assess whether banks are meeting the credit needs of all racial groups equally. Regulators ultimately did not meet that demand under the new CRA rules and regulations issued on October 24, but there is still a lot to talk about.  Under the existing rules, banks get CRA credit for $300-$400 billion a year in loans made to low-to-moderate income households or in low-to-moderate income communities across the country. That&r...

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