(The Center Square) -Concerns about the use of Washington state's Community Reinvestment Program (CRP) funds have now moved on to the Tacoma Urban League, including the organization's director being put on leave, interviews show.

CRP was created to support homeownership for minorities by providing grants and funding to programs that assist low-income households, and to support minority owned business development.

The funds are administered by the Washington Department of Commerce and initially amounted to $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.

As reported by The Center Square, Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle is accused of potential self-dealing and is now under investigation by the office of Attorney General Nick Brown.

The whistleblower, Corey Orvold, who is a real estate managing broker who attempted to gain access to CRP funds for her clients, obtained public records that indicate some administrators [ULMC] of the program funds may have been providing loans or debt relief using taxpayer money to their own close circle, including family members.

The Tacoma Urban League (TUL) has also been granted millions for minority owned business development, and days after The Center Square article about the Seattle Urban League investigation, TUL’s CEO, Desireé...

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