Josh Zinner

Bank of America has agreed to pay $335 million to settle allegations of racially discriminatory lending practices by Bank of America owned Countrywide. Josh Zinner, co-director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP), joins us to discuss the settlement.  

Josh Zinner, co-director of NEDAP, the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, and WNYC business and economics editor Charlie Herman reflect on the foreclosure freeze of many large banks nationwide and what that freeze is doing to the New York housing market.

WNYC reporter Cindy Rodriguez talks about her feature on one man's foreclosure process in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, and Josh Zinner of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project discusses how housing scams are affecting lower income neighborhoods in the area.

Find out about the different types of foreclosures, the legal process by which a property can be seized, how the real estate collapse has is affecting New Yorkers, and the industry that is thriving on America’s housing woes. Michael MacKenzie is US Markets Correspondent for the Financial Times. ...