Saturday, February 14, 2009

Race Bias In Twin Cities' Mortgage Lending, Says Report

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Twin Cities Daily Planet reports:
  • 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 loans at higher rates than low-income white borrowers.

For more, see Report documents mortgage discrimination in Twin Cities.

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