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    Joe Biden Announces Actions to Narrow Racial Wealth Gap in the U.S

    By Digpu News StaffJune 3, 2021 World News No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Joe Biden will call for billions of dollars in grants and investments to benefit poor minority communities, as well as a big increase in federal procurement

    The U.S President Joe Biden‘s administration on Tuesday announced new measures designed to narrow the racial wealth gap and build wealth in Black communities. The plan aims to help reduce discrimination in the housing market and increase the number of federal contracts given to small disadvantaged businesses by 50%, resulting in an extra $100 billion in contracts over the next five years, the White House said in a press release.

    Joe Biden, a Democrat, will call for billions of dollars in grants and investments to benefit poor minority communities, as well as a big increase in federal procurement from small, disadvantaged businesses, and a crackdown on housing discrimination, administration officials told reporters. Joe Biden will unveil the measures during a visit to the Greenwood neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob 100 years ago. They are part of a broader push to reverse systemic racism, and build on executive actions he took during his first week in office, one the officials said.

    We can’t build back better without tackling the systemic racism and disparities that have plagued our nation for far too long. That’s why today, we’re taking additional steps to advance racial equity, narrow the racial wealth gap, and build Black wealth. https://t.co/7mP3mvhSgc

    — President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) June 1, 2021

    Administration officials said they had no further news about any plans to cancel high levels of student debt.

    Key Steps to be Taken:

    The measures include:

    – Expanding federal contracting with small, disadvantaged businesses by 50% to some $100 billion over five years, harnessing the buying power of the federal government, the world’s single biggest purchaser of goods

    – Using $10 billion of Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan – which must still be passed by Congress – to revitalize communities like Greenwood that suffer from persistent poverty, historic disinvestment and the ongoing displacement of long-time residents

    – Targeting $15 billion in competitive grants to reconnect minority neighbourhoods cut off in the past from schools, jobs and businesses by the building of highways

    – Spending $31 billion to support minority-owned businesses

    – Publishing new rules by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to aggressively combat housing discrimination

    – A new inter-agency push to use standards, enforcement and regulatory action to reduce the gap in appraised values in minority and white communities that nearly doubled between 1980 and 2015, according to research by the University of Pittsburgh

    – A new tax credit for development and rehabilitation of homes in minority neighbourhoods to close the gap in pricing on the open market.

    What is the Need for These Measures?

    Racial disparities persist over generations, limiting opportunities for wealth creation for Black and Latino families and reducing their ability to pass on property to their children.

    – Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances show that the median Black household had a net wealth of $24,000 in 2019 or nearly 90% less than the median white household.

    – Home ownership rates are much lower in communities of colour, with just 49% of Latinos and 45% of Black Americans owning their own homes, compared with 74% of white Americans.

    – The home ownership rate for Black Americans has declined 5% since 2001, compared with a 1% drop for white Americans, and is now the same as in 1968, the year the Fair Housing Act was passed by Congress.

    – The Joe Biden administration has not set any specific targets for home ownership rates, an administration official said, adding that closing the current gap “will take significant effort and time.”

    – The COVID-19 relief plan, already passed by Congress, included $10 billion in mortgage relief for some 2 million borrowers who are seriously delinquent, many of whom are homeowners of color.

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