Communities of color

The grants are an attempt to correct decisions made decades ago.

Infrastructure repairs are usually left up to local governments, but smaller cities can’t always afford these repairs.

"The long-term goal has to just be structurally changing this untenable housing system that we have," said Carl Gershenson, the project director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

The Treasury Department provided $9 billion to lenders in underserved communities, allowing them to expand and support entrepreneurs.

The bureau thinks it missed 3% of African Americans, 5% of Hispanics and 6% of Alaska Natives and Native Americans living on reservations.

In a rural community within 40 miles of Washington, dozens of families live without potable running water.

There's a marriage divide in the US that's leaving many working-class and poor kids "doubly disadvantaged," a researcher says.