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Black Homeowners Want HUD to Address Housing Discrimination

The Indianapolis Star reported that appraisers undervalued a Black resident s home because of her race. This undervaluation dates back decades to when Black neighborhoods were deemed financially risky. Lawmakers introduced legislation in recent months to combat racial disparities in homeownership. With the pandemic-era ability to work from home, the desire for homeownership has been on the rise this past year, with a housing inventory crisis developing as a result. But the Indianapolis Star reported last week that Black homeowners who want to put their houses on the market or seek lower mortgage rates are at a disadvantage just because of their race. 

Medicaid Expansion Supporters Vow To Fight After Missouri Governor Scraps Voter-Approved Plan

KCUR Rev. Vernon Howard, president of the Kansas City chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, urged Missouri Medicaid expansion supporters to continue to fight. Medicaid expansion supporters say Republicans refusal to implement the constitutional amendment will result in delays of health care for Missourians in need. A day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined to implement a voter approved constitutional amendment to expand the state’s public health insurance program, myriad supporters of the plan vowed to keep up the fight. In Kansas City and across the state, health care advocacy groups gathered to express support for expanding Medicaid, which had been slated to begin on July 1 and provide health care coverage to an additional 271,000 Missouri residents.

Six Months In, COVID Vaccination Rates For Black Missourians Remain Far Below The State Average

/ Temperature checks and limited attendance are two of the safeguards at in-person Sunday services that recently resumed at St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Addressing the mistrust and health care access problems faced by African Americans will take more than big vaccination events, some experts say. Throughout Missouri s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, data have shown wide disparities in the vaccination rates of different racial and ethnic groups and while recent weeks have shown some improvement, many gaps remain. Although vaccine hesitancy runs high in many African American neighborhoods, critics say the state’s inadequate efforts to reach those vulnerable communities have added to issues of mistrust and lack of health care access that are keeping vaccination rates low.

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