Redlined Deliveries The Receipts: UPS vs. Staten Island The Facts: A class-action lawsuit (Case 1:24-cv-07086) filed against United Parcel Service, Inc. alleges a discriminatory “Non-Delivery Policy” affecting two apartment complexes, Park Hill and Fox Hill, on Staten Island. The Misconduct:…
Redlining for Profit: Townstone Financial’s Air War On Black Chicago TL;DR The U.S. government, via the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, filed a lawsuit (Case No. 1:20-cv-04176) against Townstone Financial for illegal racial discrimination in mortgage lending between 2014 and…
The Architecture of Exclusion TL;DR: The Fairway Files THE ACCUSED: Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. THE CRIME: Systematically discriminating against Black communities in the Birmingham-Hoover, Alabama metropolitan area by redlining. This is a direct violation of the Fair Housing Act, the…