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- <text id=91TT2455>
- <title>
- Nov. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Mortgages
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 04, 1991 The New Age of Alternative Medicine
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 65
- Business Notes
- MORTGAGES
- The Color Bias In Lending
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Are members of minority groups routinely victimized by a
- deep-set bias in mortgage lending? They have long suspected so,
- and now they have a persuasive piece of evidence. In a study of
- 6.4 million loan applications at 9,300 lending institutions,
- the Federal Reserve Board found that blacks were turned down
- for loans twice as often as whites. Of 19 cities studied,
- Boston had the highest rejection rate for blacks: 34.9%, vs. 11%
- for whites. Houston had the highest rejection rate for
- Hispanics: 25.7%, vs. 13% for whites. The refusals were
- unbalanced for even government-backed mortgages, which require
- a lower down payment than conventional mortgages: 26.3% for
- blacks and 18.4% for Hispanics, vs. 12.1% for whites.
- </p>
- <p> The Fed cautioned that the study was not detailed enough
- to prove outright discrimination. But the overall pattern was
- consistent enough to prompt several Washington lawmakers to call
- for new antidiscrimination bills.
- </p>
- <p> Percent of conventional mortgages denied, 1990
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- <table>
- <row><cell type=a>Asians<cell type=n>12.9%
- <row><cell>Whites<cell>14.4%
- <row><cell>Hispanics<cell>21.4%
- <row><cell>Blacks<cell>33.9%
- </table>
- </body>
- </article>
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