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Katrinka Cox believes her mortgage application has come to a halt because she is African-American.
BBC

America's race gap between black and white homeowners

Black applicants who are granted mortgages face higher interest rates, paying more than white homeowners with lower incomes, the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has found.
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Marketplace

What to know about affordable housing

"Just 1 in 4 income-eligible renters receives rental assistance, and with nearly 20 million cost-burdened renter households there just isn't enough support to go around... That's part of why we're in the current crisis, that incomes just aren't high enough to keep up with the rent increases and there just isn't enough support" says Whitney Airgood-Obrycki.
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Boston.com

Water damage riles condo owners in Plymouth

“Beyond six years, it is hard to probe whether the occupancy or behavior of the occupants isn’t impacting the system. It’s a little harder to find causality,’’ said Carlos Martín, project director of the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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CNN

The dream of owning a home is out of reach for 4 million Americans

The record run-up in home prices and rents exacerbated the affordable housing crisis in the US, and rising interest rates stand to make it even worse, according to Harvard University's annual State of the Nation's Housing Report released Wednesday.

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