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Hi John,
The American Dream—owning your own home. … Yet here in Philadelphia, that dream has been turned against us.
Decades of redlining has wreaked havoc on our city. Philadelphia is now the fourth-most segregated major city in the United States. And major banks, mortgage lenders and creditors have pitted Philly neighborhoods against each other, using racially discriminatory mortgage lending practices to deny Black and Latino borrowers home loans.
The Justice Department has started investigating this damage—this past week, the Department of Justice secured the second-largest redlining settlement in its history against a top Philadelphia-area mortgage firm.
But—the redlining that the Justice Department uncovered from Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Trident Mortgage is just the tip of the iceberg.
We must bring ALL racist lenders to justice.
Will you sign my petition asking the Department of Justice to NOT stop now. The DOJ must continue its investigation of all mortgage lenders that engage in unlawful racial discrimination and bring them ALL to justice.
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