SEATTLE, WA – Two women who tried to get debt relief and down payment assistance through the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle are speaking out about what they call “unfair treatment” and “lies” from members of the organization.
When The Center Square ran an article this week featuring a whistleblower who detailed alleged self-dealing within ULMS as part of the state’s Community Reinvestment Program, as originally reported by “unDivided” podcast host Brandi Kruse, the women reached out to share their stories.
The Community Reinvestment Program was created by majority-party Democrats in 2022 and initially given $200 million in taxpayer funds to lift communities “disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs” and housing discrimination of the past. It is similar to the race-based Covenant Homeownership Program, which The Center Square has written about…