Ayanna Pressley actually said...

This report found that in Boston, when White applicants applied for a mortgage, the denial rate was approximately 5 percent. But for Black and Latinx applicants, the denial rates were 15.3 percent, and 12.7 percent, respectively. This is modern-day redlining, period.

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Pressley discusses racial disparities in mortgage loan denial rates as modern-day redlining.

12/05/2023

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