housing discrimination

Detroit-based Rocket Mortgage has sued the U.S. Justice Department - after the DOJ named Rocket Mortgage in a racial discrimination lawsuit based on a mortage refinance application by a black customer.

Today, we talk with reporters about Detroit buildings that look abandoned, but have owners — and why that's the case. Then, we listen to some of last night's Issues and Ale from Kalamazoo. Later, we discuss how one Michigan diner is bringing people together by talking politics.

Bills to forbid Michigan landlords from refusing to lease apartments to people based on their source of income are on their way to Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

It could become illegal in Michigan to deny renting to someone because of their source of income, under a bill package heading for the state House of Representatives.

In Lansing, residents are taking reparations into their own hands. The Justice League of Greater Lansing is focused on the repairing the racial wealth gap in the area.

A state House subcommittee held a hearing Thursday on bills to establish new housing protections, including what supporters are calling a “homeless bill of rights.”

The city of Howell has agreed to pay a $750,000 settlement that ends a long-running lawsuit over a sober living home. The city was sued after it put a temporary ban on those facilities in response to an outcry over plans to open the Amber Reinick House.

Three bills are currently in the Michigan Senate to bar landlords from discriminating against potential tenants based on where they get the money for rent.

Under Floyd J. McCree, Flint became the first city to ban housing discrimination that prevented African-Americans from buying homes in “whites only” neighborhoods.

Home mortgage rates are up in Detroit — but Black people are still being denied for mortgages at higher rates than white people, according to a new report from the nonprofit Detroit Future City.