A year and a half after protests against racial injustice rocked America, banks’ efforts to respond with concrete action are starting to flower with collaborations between numerous lenders launching in recent months.
With the legislature and local governments beginning to make decisions on how to spend billions of dollars in federal relief funding, two economic experts on Thursday urged policymakers to be mindful of equity as they chart a path forward for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Growing up in Waukegan, Illinois, Tayler Morris got an early introduction to the architecture profession through a high school work-study program that laid the groundwork for a future career.
A little-known but highly effective legal group is working on drafting model legislation that would help property owners remove discriminatory, restrictive covenants from their deeds.
Having a run-in with the law is one of the quickest ways to disqualify yourself from homeownership, and other bites of housing news for your holiday weekend.
As architectural firms switched to work-from-home models in early 2020, executives worried about lost opportunities to ramp up racial equity programs in an industry where Black employees comprise just 2 percent of the workforce.
President Joe Biden is targeting federal pandemic assistance to the nation’s smallest businesses and taking steps to further equity in what is known as the Paycheck Protection Program.
By reaching backwards in time, we can create business traditions that reinforce the core business proposition that diversity and inclusion are necessary for any company to thrive long-term.
A timely and effective rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations is critical to righting Massachusetts’ economy and enabling the state and its businesses to exit this never-ending state of crisis. And somehow, Charlie Baker bungled it.
The local real estate and banking industries are big ships that turn slowly. But when they begin to move, as the many actions featured in this week’s issue of Banker & Tradesman show, the results are impressive.
Jeanne Pinado, the former CEO of Madison Park Development Corp., joined Colliers International’s Boston office in January, becoming one of the first Black women in a top role in local commercial brokerage.
Today, many of these neighborhoods house Black and immigrant populations that have been excluded from an aspect of the American dream – building wealth through equity. Most recently, the spotlight came down on the role real estate appraisers might play in perpetuating undervaluation of homes in some neighborhoods or owned by people of color.
Just weeks from his likely departure from Boston, Mayor Marty Walsh is asking city officials to use their brand-new powers to boost developers’ affordable housing taxes by 42 percent.
In an unusual, if not unprecedented, move for a major trade organization, the National Association of Realtors has taken full ownership for any and all discriminatory actions taken over the years by the 1.4 million agents and brokers for which it speaks.
A major community bank on the South Shore says it will make buying a home in its home city of Brockton easier and launch an internship program in an effort to simultaneously diversify its ranks and attack the racial wealth gap.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed big dreams and 57 years later they remain unfulfilled. But the message of hope and peace and unity is one that we need to hear now more than ever before.
Swansea-based BayCoast Bank has named a senior executive to the newly-created post of chief diversity officer as it looks to boost its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Just as Eastern Bank’s conversion to a stock bank has altered the local banking landscape, the decision appears poised to create major change in Massachusetts’ communities.
A diverse development team will lead the 329,000-square-foot development of a 2-acre city-owned parking lot in Roxbury’s Nubian Square into a new retail and cultural hub.
One of the first official actions Charlie Oppler took as the 2021 president of the National Association of Realtors was to issue a formal apology for the group’s contributions to racial segregation and inequality.
