Complex sentence: However these same financial institutions in the 2000s saw black communities as fertile ground for subprime mortgages, as working-class blacks wanted a part of the nation's home-owning trend.
Split into simpler sentences: However these same financial institutions in the 2000s saw black communities as fertile ground for subprime mortgages. There was pressure on both sides, as working-class blacks wanted a part of the nation's home-owning trend.