... damned if you don't:
In a complaint filed Wednesday and settled the same day, Justice claimed that California-based Luther Burbank Savings violated the 1968 Fair Housing Act and 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act by setting a policy that had a "disparate impact" on minorities. Between 2006 and mid-2011, 5.2% of Luther's single-family residential mortgage loans went to African-Americans ...
What the DOJ means by "disparate impact" is that the bank set standards that would ensure repayment of loans, and blacks couldn't meet them. h/t Radley
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