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Fair Housing Center Releases Report Examining Access to Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2024 Contact: Austin Cummings, Phone: 216-306-2542, Email: acummings@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, OH – Today, The Fair Housing Center released a first-of-its-kind report examining access to home improvement loans in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.   Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, we examine individual and neighborhood-level outcomes for home improvement loans between 2019 and 2022. During […]

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Remodeling Inequities: Analyzing Geographic Trends in Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

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By Austin Cummings, Research Associate “Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing difference.” – ­Desire Fields and Elora Lee Raymond (2021). Racialized geographies of housing financialization. Progress in Human Geography. Vol.45(6) 1625-1645. DOI: 10.1177/03091132521009299. Home improvement, repair, and update projects serve a number of purposes. They help households increase […]

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