September 09, 2019 — September 15, 201912:00 AM Walter Washington Convention Center Join us at the 2019 CBCF Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, DC VENUE: Walter Washington Convention Center DATE: September 9 – 15, 2019 ADDRESS: 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC 20001 BOOK YOUR ROOM / REGISTRATION September 10 September 12 12:00 PM…
September 10, 201912:00 PM — 3:00 PM National Press Club BOOK YOUR ROOM / REGISTRATION Here are the currently confirmed Panelists for the 2019 National Conversation on Black Homeownership. THE 2019 NATIONAL CONVERSATION – PANEL LEADER Donnell Williams President, NAREB THE 2019 NATIONAL CONVERSATION – PANELISTS Michele Calloway Board Chair, NAREB Michael Eric Dyson Professor of Sociology,…
September 12, 20192:00 PM — 4:00 PM Walter E. Washington Convention Center BOOK YOUR ROOM / REGISTRATION Here are the currently confirmed speakers for the 2019 SHIBA Forum. 2019 SHIBA FORUM MODERATORS Angela Rye Commentator & Political Strategist, CNN Mark Alston Owner – Alston & associates Mortgage Co Past Chair, NAREB Pac James H. Carr…
September 12, 20196:00 PM — 8:00 PM Embassy Suites by Hilton Washington DC Convention Center Map Unavailable REGISTER NOW NAREB RECEPTION AWARDEES Ms. Beverley Francis-Gibson, MA President & CEO, Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. The Honorable Gwen S. Moore U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable William Lacy Clay, Jr. U.S. House of Representatives…
September 23, 2019 — September 25, 20198:00 AM — 8:00 PM Did you know the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit/Bond Program is now available to individuals, group associations and non-profit organizations? These programs function as a tool that can be used to finance new and rehabilitated housing for low and moderate income families. UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTALS…
September 09, 2019 — September 15, 201912:00 AM Walter Washington Convention Center Join us at the 2019 CBCF Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, DC VENUE: Walter Washington Convention Center DATE: September 9 – 15, 2019 ADDRESS: 801 Mt Vernon Pl NW, Washington, DC 20001 BOOK YOUR ROOM / REGISTRATION September 10 September 12 12:00 PM…
September 10, 201912:00 PM — 3:00 PM National Press Club BOOK YOUR ROOM / REGISTRATION Here are the currently confirmed Panelists for the 2019 National Conversation on Black Homeownership. THE 2019 NATIONAL CONVERSATION – PANEL LEADER Donnell Williams President, NAREB THE 2019 NATIONAL CONVERSATION – PANELISTS Michele Calloway Board Chair, NAREB Michael Eric Dyson Professor of Sociology,…
September 12, 20192:00 PM — 4:00 PM Walter E. Washington Convention Center BOOK YOUR ROOM / REGISTRATION Here are the currently confirmed speakers for the 2019 SHIBA Forum. 2019 SHIBA FORUM MODERATORS Angela Rye Commentator & Political Strategist, CNN Mark Alston Owner – Alston & associates Mortgage Co Past Chair, NAREB Pac James H. Carr…
September 12, 20196:00 PM — 8:00 PM Embassy Suites by Hilton Washington DC Convention Center Map Unavailable REGISTER NOW NAREB RECEPTION AWARDEES Ms. Beverley Francis-Gibson, MA President & CEO, Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Inc. The Honorable Gwen S. Moore U.S. House of Representatives The Honorable William Lacy Clay, Jr. U.S. House of Representatives…
By Aracely Panameño From our nation’s founding, state and federal laws have either stacked the deck for or against Americans of diverse racial and ethnic origin. In their new report, “The Color of Wealth in Miami,” Alan A. Aja, Gretchen Beesing, Daniel Bustillo, Danielle Clealand, William Darity, Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Mark Paul, Anne E. Price,…
September 23, 2019 — September 25, 20198:00 AM — 8:00 PM Did you know the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit/Bond Program is now available to individuals, group associations and non-profit organizations? These programs function as a tool that can be used to finance new and rehabilitated housing for low and moderate income families. UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTALS…
BY: JANN SWANSON Two US Census Bureau researchers have determined that the biggest determinants of household wealth are owning a home and having a retirement account. While that may not be surprising, the degrees of magnitude are. Using data from the 2015 Survey of Income and Program Participation, Jonathan Eggleston, an economist, and Donald Hays,…
By Kevin Guhl, Neighbor Coldwell Banker And Realogy Support National Association Of Real Estate Broker’s Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion MONTCLAIR, N.J. (Aug. 23, 2019) – Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and its parent company Realogy had the honor of being a corporate sponsor of the 72nd Annual National Convention of The National Association of Real…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent Bank of America officials have spent the past few months asking their customers and clients a simple question – what would you like to have the power to do? “For many, the goal is to own a home and saving up for a down payment is the biggest…
Part 1 in a series: The difference between deed theft and the city’s controversial Third Party Transfer Program By Charlie Innis Black homeowners in Central Brooklyn are losing their homes at an alarming rate, and the main culprits are deed theft and the city’s controversial Third Party Transfer Program. As of March 2019, there were…
Washington, DC – August 5, 2019 – During his speech on August 1st at the conclusion of the 72nd Annual NAREB Convention held in Atlantic City, NJ, Donnell T. Williams, newly installed as the 31st president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) set a bold, yet targeted agenda to increase Black wealth…
By Zack Budryk The relative rarity of banks in nonwhite neighborhoods is exacerbating the racial wealth gap by leaving African Americans more reliant on expensive financial services such as payday lending institutions, according to Reuters, citing research by McKinsey & Co. The study found that majority-white counties have an average of 41 financial institutions per…
Stedman Graham encourages audience to step into their power. By Mike Community Journal Potential homebuyers turned out in droves to receive know-how, financial assistance through landmark program While statistics may paint a grim picture of Black homeownership, a recent event in Baltimore laid out a clear path for turning those numbers around across the country.…
By Zach Farber Upstairs at the Linden Hills Library, a flat-screen television has been set up to serve as an interactive history exhibit. The screen displays an old hand-lettered, green-and-black map of Southwest Minneapolis. Scattered across the map are about a dozen big red dots, mostly clustered in the neighborhoods of Linden Hills and Lyndale.…
By Brenda Richardson For many black households, the housing crisis never ended. While 73.1% of white Americans owned homes as of the second quarter of 2019, a record low of 40.6% of black Americans had achieved homeownership and 46.6% of Hispanic Americans. The resulting 32.5 percentage-point gap in homeownership between black and white Americans is…
How America’s Housing System Undermines Wealth Building in Communities of Color By Danyelle Solomon, Connor Maxwell, and Abril Castro This report is part of a series on structural racism in the United States. Authors’ note: CAP uses “Black” and “African American” interchangeably throughout many of our products. We chose to capitalize “Black” in order to…
By KATY O’DONNELL The Department of Housing and Urban Development is circulating a proposal to make it more difficult to bring discrimination claims under the Fair Housing Act. The update to HUD’s 2013 disparate impact rule would require plaintiffs to meet a five-step threshold to prove unintentional discrimination, replacing the current three-step “burden-shifting” approach. It…
By Rob Meiksins and Steve Dubb Image “Young couple moving in at Homesteads built as part of the New Deal housing and work programs. Newport News, Virginia, 1937,” Britt Fuller February 22, 2019; Real News Network Homeownership in the US has long been stratified by race. The most recent figures from the US Census Bureau (as…
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection found black applicants were rejected at more than double the rate of non-Hispanic white applicants on all types of loans (iStock) By Kenneth R. HarneyMay 23 at 6:30 AMEmail the author For millions of Americans hoping to buy or refinance a home, it’s a crucial make-or-break question: Will the lender…
Earnest money check, down payment and closing costs: When are they due?
National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) and thought leaders sound alarm at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference Washington, DC – September 29, 2015 – Statistics, issued recently by the Home Mortgage Data Administration (HMDA) indicate that in 2014, only 5.2 percent of mortgage loans were made to Black borrowers at a…
ABOUT THE NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the National Fair Housing Alliance is a consortium of more than 220 private, non-profit fair housing organizations, state and local civil rights agencies, and individuals from throughout the United States. Through comprehensive education, advocacy and enforcement programs, NFHA protects and promotes equal access to apartments, houses, mortgage loans and insurance policies for all residents of the…
One telling indicator of the state of the nation’s housing is the drop in the homeownership rate to just 64.5 percent last year, erasing nearly all of the increase in the previous two decades. The number of homeowners fell for the eighth straight year, signaling persistently weak demand in this key market segment. And the trend does not appear…
