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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) was formed in 1990 by national, regional, and local organizations to develop and harness the collective energies of community reinvestment organizations from across the country so as to increase the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities. NCRC has grown to an association of more than 600 community-based organizations that promote access to basic banking services including credit and savings, to create and sustain affordable housing, job development and vibrant communities for America's working families.
Our members
include community reinvestment organizations, community development
corporations; local and state government agencies; faith-based
institutions; community organizing and civil rights groups; minority
and women-owned business associations as well as local and social
service providers from across the nation.
NCRC pursues its work through a variety of partnerships and programs. Our Housing Counseling Network
leverages the expertise of a national network of mortgage finance
advisors. They work with servicers and lenders, on behalf of
homeowners, to keep working families from losing their homes to
foreclosure.
NCRC’s National Training Academy
provides training and technical assistance on topics such as
understanding how to use the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), fair
lending laws, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Truth in Lending Act
(TILA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Homeownership
and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), fair housing and foreclosure
prevention. Our Economic Justice Campaign sites pilot innovative
community partnerships to enhance the delivery of financial, technical,
and social services to individual consumers, homeowners, and small
business.
NCRC’s work is enhanced by two financial service advisory councils
consisting of the nation’s largest banks and mortgage finance
companies. Quarterly roundtables examine issues involving responsible
financial service-related policies, regulations and legislation, as
well as innovative products, services and best practices.
NCRC represents its members before Congress, federal regulatory agencies and the press. NCRC routinely testifies
before the U.S. Congress, and meets with the leadership of banking and
lending regulatory agencies. NCRC frequently provides expert commentary
on national television, and our research and policy papers have been cited in hundreds of newspapers in the US.
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