DETROIT, Mich. — Before 1974, women couldn’t secure a mortgage without a male co-signer. That was before passage of the Fair Housing Act’s prohibitions against sex discrimination and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. But today, single women have emerged as a major segment of homebuyers. In fact, single women have outpaced single men in […]
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