The grants are an attempt to correct decisions made decades ago.
Infrastructure repairs are usually left up to local governments, but smaller cities can’t always afford these repairs.
“The long-term goal has to just be structurally changing this untenable housing system that we have,” said Carl Gershenson, the project director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.
The Treasury Department provided $9 billion to lenders in underserved communities, allowing them to expand and support entrepreneurs.
The bureau thinks it missed 3% of African Americans, 5% of Hispanics and 6% of Alaska Natives and Native Americans living on reservations.
In a rural community within 40 miles of Washington, dozens of families live without potable running water.
There's a marriage divide in the US that's leaving many working-class and poor kids "doubly disadvantaged," a researcher says.