This week the National Fair Housing Alliance released findings into an investigation that allege banks and other lenders are routinely neglecting foreclosed properties in minority neighborhoods.
The report, The Banks Are Back; Our Neighborhoods Are Not, was compiled after conducting investigations in nine cities. Atlanta was among those cities believed to have incidents of discrimination.
Broken windows and doors, piles of trash and overgrown weeds are a just a few eyesores found on foreclosed properties in African American and Latino neighborhoods.
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