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Today, about 75% of the country is solely zoned for single-family housing — probably the greatest contributor to housing costs (and therefore housing and wealth inequality) in the United States.
Fifteen state courts obeyed ordinances that enforced the denial of housing to African American and other minority groups in white-zoned areas. In the 1917 Supreme Court case Buchanan v. Warley , the court ruled that a Louisville, Kentucky ordinance prohibiting blacks from owning or occupying buildings in a majority-white neighborhood, and vice ...
Founded in 1959 the NYCCLC represents over 400 local New York City unions in both the public and private sectors of the New York economy. [2] Of the 11 million total workers represented by the AFL–CIO, the New York City Central Labor Council alone represents close to 15% of its total membership.
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. [2] Redlining has been most prominent in the United States, and has mostly been directed against African Americans, as well as Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States. [3]
Upset with Gov. Kathy Hochul, Harry Nespoli, the head of the umbrella group representing 300,000 New York City's municipal workers is urging Republican President-elect Donald to kill the reviled ...
Minority neighborhoods where residents were long denied home loans have twice as many oil and gas wells as mostly white The post Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas ...
The NYC teachers’ union is coaching educators on how to help migrant kids and families avoid getting picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at home or in public – going beyond the ...
Movement for Justice in El Barrio was founded by immigrants and low-income people living in East Harlem, New York City. It is part of the fight against the effects of neoliberalism and discrimination in all of its forms and operates on a commitment to the ideals of self-determination, autonomy and participatory democracy .