The City of Long Beach has marked an important milestone in its continued efforts to expand housing supply, celebrating entitlements for over 5,000 new homes over the last three years. These entitlements, or City approvals to build housing, comprise a healthy mix of market-rate and affordable homes, including more options for low- and middle-income families, ...

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Sr Natl Correspondent The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) has issued an urgent “Call to Action” to address Black homeownership, which has reached what NAREB President Dr. Courtney Johnson Rose describes as a “State of Emergency.” According to the 2024 State of Housing in Black America (SHIBA) report, ...

By McKenzie Jackson California Black Media The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) won a $10,000 fair housing settlement last November against a property management company, CIM Group LP, a global real estate company headquartered in Los Angeles, and property owner, RACR Sora, LLC, for implementing a blanket ban on renting to tenants with criminal histories ...