<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a $200 million settlement with Associated Bank over redlining in Chicago and Milwaukee in May 2015 . The three - year HUD observation led to the complaint that the bank purposely rejected mortgage applications from black and Latino applicants . The final settlement required AB to open branches in non-white neighborhoods, just like HCSB . </P> <P> New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a settlement with Evans Bank for $825,000 on September 10, 2015 . An investigation had uncovered the erasure of black neighborhoods from mortgage lending maps . According to Schneiderman, of the over 1,100 mortgage applications the bank received between 2009 and 2012, only four were from African Americans . Following this investigation, the Buffalo News reported that more banks could be investigated for the same reasons in the near future . The most notable examples of such DOJ and HUD settlements have focused heavily on community banks in large metropolitan areas, but banks in other regions have been the subject of such orders as well, including First United Security Bank in Thomasville, Alabama, and Community State Bank in Saginaw, Michigan . </P> <P> The United States Department of Justice announced a $33 million settlement with Hudson City Savings Bank, which services New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, on September 24, 2015 . The six - year DOJ investigation had proven that the company was intentionally avoiding granting mortgages to Latinos and African Americans and purposely avoided expanding into minority - majority communities . The Justice Department called it the "largest residential mortgage redlining settlement in its history ." As a part of the settlement agreement, HCSB was forced to open branches in non-white communities . As U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman explained to Emily Badger for The Washington Post, "(i) f you lived in a majority - black or Hispanic neighborhood and you wanted to apply for a mortgage, Hudson City Savings Bank was not the place to go ." The enforcement agencies cited additional evidence of discrimination Hudson City's broker selection practices, noting that the bank received 80 percent of its mortgage applications from mortgage brokers but that the brokers with whom the bank worked were not located in majority African - American and Hispanic areas . </P>

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