The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series about confronting inequality that features business leaders, academics, policy makers and activists. For much of the 20th century, people of color in ...

For prospective homebuyers, the online search portal and real estate brokerage Redfin is a go-to resource. Listings in more than 100 housing markets in the United States and Canada can be browsed ...

Imagine you live in a neighborhood that has long been under-resourced — "redlined" back in the days when such overt discrimination was both legal and encouraged by the federal government, and which ...

The Justice Department has secured $122 million from a dozen banks and mortgage companies in redlining cases since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the agency's Combat Redlining Initiative ...

Homeowners in minority neighborhoods don’t see same gains, even in booming market. The booming housing market is leaving many homeowners in minority neighborhoods behind as their homes continue to be ...

Thousands of red tulips are blooming this week in long-vacant lots around 53rd and Prairie, a noted Chicago artist’s way of bringing attention to sites where the 20th-century practice of redlining led ...

King County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles recently introduced a motion requesting the county executive to provide recommendations to restore “justice for race-based restrictive real estate ...

The Justice Department has settled another case involving alleged redlining by a real estate lender, this time in the Philadelphia area. ESSA Bank & Trust agreed last week to pay more than $3 million ...

Federal prosecutors have accused mortgage lender Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. of discriminatory redlining practices in predominantly Black neighborhoods in Birmingham, AL. The allegations were ...

For countless years, Ohioans and Americans would put in racist clauses like this until the 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed them: "[N]o part of said property or any portion thereof shall be... occupied ...

Certain foreign nationals will find it harder to purchase a home or land in Florida after a new state law went into effect this month, a move that experts worry could set a discriminatory precedent.