Philadelphia Casino: Creating Another Injustice

Op-Ed: Philadelphia Chinatown plans to build a casino is a burden, and not just because of gambling addictions. Why does Chinatown have to deal with more of a burden than the rest of the city or state? more» 

Freddie Mac Touts New Vista REO Partnership

Park and Acosta head up New Vista and created a model that uses a diverse network of minority brokers, as well as nonprofit counseling agencies, to create awareness among first-time and minority buyers of the availability of REO homes as a housing option. more» 

Foreclosing Costs

Owners aren't the only ones caught in the mortgage crisis. Renters, like this East Boston family of immigrants, are feeling the fallout, especially when unscrupulous landlords do not tell tenants when the building is being foreclosed. The building in which Chao Xiong Ma and his wife, Man Yi Ma, live was foreclosed on last year, and in January, much to the Mas' surprise, a crew of men arrived one morning to try to move them, and their belongings, out. more»