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The ACLU believes that authentic, effective community investment in redlined and segregated neighborhoods is about so much more than building affordable housing. It is important the create economically strong and diverse communities, that provide more housing affordable to low-income households. The ACLU of Maryland is working with both local and national partners to achieve this goal. More must be done in communities to eliminate racial and spatial disparities in housing, wealth and life opportunity. For example, the assisted housing occupied by Black people is nine times more likely to be located in a highly disinvested area than the assisted housing occupied by white people. Read more about the legislation, nonprofits, programs and research we have done on housing mobility.

Lourdes Montes-Greenan is vice president in the Community Development Banking division at PNC Bank.  She has been with PNC for over nine years. In her role, Lourdes helps bring financial solutions to social problems. She engages with different community partners to bring human, intellectual and fiscal capital to revitalize our underserved communities. Prior to PNC Bank, Lourdes managed a financial services program for Latinos in a local non-profit organization and before that she was a professor of foreign languages at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in her hometown Guadalajara, Mexico. Lourdes has been a board member of numerous non-profit organizations in Baltimore for the past fifteen years. Currently, she is a member of groups such as the Enoch Pratt Advisory Council and the Caroline Friess Center.  She lives in Baltimore City with her husband and two girls.