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February 7, 2023
With falling housing prices and rising interest rates, it's not an easy time to be a new homeowner in America.…
Black couple buying home
October 27, 2021
If you’re looking to buy a house, you’ve probably noticed that the market can be pretty crazy these days given…
December 6, 2020
Black Millennials between ages 26 and 39 have contributed to a surprsing 2020 home buying search for African Americans overall.
October 15, 2020
U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week as the key 30-year loan reached a new all-time low for the tenth…
Protesters Call For Cancellations Of Rents And Mortgages In Minneapolis
July 9, 2020
With federal protections set to expire both renters and homeowners may face a crisis as evictions mount rending many more…
March 28, 2016
Stefun Darts wanted to repay his grandparents for everything that they have done for him, so he helped them to…
May 11, 2013
VIDEO - A heartwarming video posted on You Tube just over a week ago has already garnered close to 2…
March 19, 2013
CHICAGO - Singer R. Kelly's foreclosed Olympia Fields home sold for a relative pittance on Monday. The home was sold…
July 13, 2012
(AP) - Wells Fargo's net income and revenue rose in the second quarter, driven by a pickup in lending and…
February 9, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A settlement between major banks, the Obama administration and state attorneys general announced Thursday could benefit both…
January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Friday that will expand its signature foreclosure-prevention program to try to help those…
January 26, 2012
OPINION - Imagine, one day reaching a milestone and realizing an accomplishment that so many of your brothers and sisters…
January 11, 2012
Hundreds of people lined up outside the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta early Tuesday morning in hopes of getting…
October 24, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The new program will apply to homeowners with federally guaranteed mortgages who are current on their payments...
August 19, 2011
NEW YORK - Mary Lee Ward, 82, has lived inside the home at 320 Tompkins Avenue for more than four…
August 8, 2011
VIDEO - This week investors will gain insight on consumers with earnings reports from Macy's, JC Penney and Kohl's...
June 10, 2011
OPINION - Unfortunately, for many blacks, the American dream of homeownership is quickly fading...
June 9, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have failed to help enough people permanently…
February 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Regardless of 'why' lending is down 62 percent collectively to blacks and Latinos, the fact is: this…
December 9, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The policies have "the effect of discriminating against African-Americans, Latinos, and residents of African-American and Latino…