{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-financial-griot.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fnavy-federal-civil-lawsuit-DxfWG3EJ","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Is Navy Federal Credit Union against Black Home Ownership?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/f1153873-62ec-4510-9061-59955f708555/7b39af64-c2fd-44dd-9480-562bffef5273/241430874-351300910058126-6266172948281418481-n.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5a0feca6-5b47-4e8e-9e62-2c52bb239cd1\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Is Navy Federal Credit Union against Black Home Ownership?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Today the crew discusses the Navy Federal Credit Union (Navy Fed) class action lawsuit concerning home loans. \n\nAccording to a CNN report (December 14, 2023), the Navy Fed, the largest credit union in the US, allegedly denied more than 50% of Black applicants for new conventional home mortgages in 2022, even as it had an approval rate greater than 75% for white applicants seeking the same product. \n\nOn December 20, 2023, civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Adam Levitt filed a class-action lawsuit against Navy Fed. The lawsuit claims that the credit union has discriminatory lending practices that affect millions of Black and Brown mortgage applicants. The lawsuit is filed on behalf of Black plaintiffs, Laquita Oliver and Cherelle Jacob, who were allegedly denied home loans due to Navy Federal's lending practices. The lawsuit also claims that Navy Federal approves a higher percentage of applications from white borrowers making less than $62,000 a year than it does from Black borrowers making $140,000 or more."}