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Record Inflation Shrinks Housing Affordability, Worsens Racial Wealth Gaps

July 8, 2022

Homeownership, historically a reliable building block to family wealth, is more of a challenge today for first-time homebuyers. As of 2022’s first quarter, the median price of an existing single- … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Housing Affordability

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FY 2021 White House Budget Proposal Cuts $66.6 Billion from Education More Than $2 Billion Directed to Short-Term Career and Technical Training

February 22, 2020

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Contributor For consumers, businesses, organizations and governments alike, annual budgets typically reflect not only line items but priorities as well. As A. … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Education Budget Proposal

Senate Education Chair Blocks Bipartisan Bill to Extend HBCU Funding

October 4, 2019

By Charlene Crowell Deputy Communications Director for the Center for Responsible Lending Each year as families beam with pride at seeing a son, daughter or another relative graduate from … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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Remembering Dr. King and “The Other America”

January 12, 2019

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Contributor Once again on the third Monday in January, much of the nation will mark the anniversary of the death of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

Racial Divides Found in Student Loan Defaults—Unsustainable Debt Trajectory Needs to Be Managed

July 7, 2018

By Charlene Crowell With 44 million consumers owing student debt that now reaches $1.5 trillion and still climbing, a lot of people want to better understand how and why this unsustainable debt … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Student Loan Debt

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Rep. Maxine Waters Takes Strong Stand for Fair Housing at HUD New Legislation Would Restore Revoked Protections and Rules

July 7, 2018

By Charlene Crowell When Dr. Ben Carson was named Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), many housing and civil rights advocates wondered how a world-renowned … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

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Fighting Discrimination in the Housing Market Takes a Strong FHA

May 12, 2018

By Charlene Crowell (Deputy Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) In the classic movie film, “Gone with the Wind,” the owner of the Tara plantation admonished his daughter … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

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Senate Lawmakers Seek to Gut Fair Housing

March 24, 2018

Senate Lawmakers’ Housing Reform Plan Threatens Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) In just a few weeks, civil rights and housing advocates will … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell

Access to Safe, Decent and Affordable Housing Threatened

March 9, 2018

By Charlene Crowell (Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) In recent days, threats to the nation’s housing finance system have emerged. At the center of the controversy are … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, housing, Housing and Economic Recovery Act

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Black America’s Dreams of Homeownership Still Deferred

October 14, 2017

By Charlene Crowell (Deputy Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) The late Langston Hughes created a masterful body of poetry in the 20th Century that spoke about and to … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Home Ownership

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