Philadelphia Made Landlords Try Mediation Before Eviction. Filings Fell by a Third and Stayed Down.
Philadelphia’s diversion program shows how a lawyer, reached early enough in an evictions process, can keep one missed rent payment from becoming a court record that follows a renter for years.
Evanston Offered Black Families $25,000 for Housing Discrimination. The Federal Government Is Trying to Shut It Down.
The Justice Department asked a court on June 16 to end the country’s first local reparations program for housing discrimination. It has paid more than $5 million to 212 Black residents for housing harm. The typical White family now holds about six times the wealth of the typical Black family, a gap built by a legacy of redlining practices the program set out to repair.
Deed Theft Robbed 1,500 Brooklyn Families of Their Homes. Black Homeowners Are Fighting Back.
Complaints of deed theft in New York City rose nearly 300 percent between 2023 and 2025. On April 24, 2026, the city launched the country’s first municipal Office of Deed Theft Prevention. The threat it was created to address extends well beyond New York.
