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The News & Observer: Residents of NC’s redlined neighborhoods have higher COVID-19 risk, study shows

People living in Durham neighborhoods that were racially redlined in the early to mid 1900s have a higher COVID-19 risk than people in neighborhoods that weren’t discriminated against, according to a study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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Street Sense Media: Rent control omnibus legislation gets hearing with sharp divide between tenant advocates and housing providers

Last year, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition released a study that showed the effects of gentrification in the District: more than 20,000 Black residents were pushed out of the city from 2000-2013 as a result of displacement, and D.C. had the highest percentage of gentrification of the cities analyzed.

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Reuters: Exclusive: U.S. watchdogs train sights on lender misconduct in pandemic aid program

A study this month by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington-based non-profit, also found that Black women and Hispanic men posing as interested PPP borrowers at 47 lenders “were treated less favorably” compared with their White counterparts, despite having stronger finances.

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WFAA: ‘They underestimate what we can do’: WFAA finds banks exclude Blacks, Hispanics in Southern Dallas from access to loans

A group called the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has tallied all the bank branches in Dallas County. Above I-30, there are 474. Southern Dallas has 58.

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The Washington Post: Black businesses are fighting for their lives. We can’t afford to lose them.

In two separate tests, the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that Black people seeking small-business loans under coronavirus relief programs were treated less favorably than Whites — even when they had stronger financial profiles.

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NPR: In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See

Researchers from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the University of Richmond and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee analyzed historic redlining maps from 142 urban areas across the U.S. — these maps, created in the 1930s, classified Black and immigrant communities as risky places to make home loans.

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StreetSenseMedia: Global coronavirus pandemic could help the homeless or hurt them more

The District of Columbia has not seen an emergency on this scale since the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed about 3,000 people in the region. Over 100 years later, Washington, D.C., is one of the most gentrified cities in the U.S., according to a study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The nation’s capital also has the highest rate of homelessness.

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PressForm: Fintech works to elevate minority leaders as users diversify

The 2016 study from NCRC looked at mortgage lending patterns in St. Louis, Milwaukee and Minneapolis and observed compounding effects of systemic discrimination in banking and finance. It documented zones of largely unbanked and underbanked populations coupled with low rates of mortgage originations that were correlated with predominantly Black neighborhoods.

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The Organization for World Peace: Changing Geographies: The Legacy Of Redlining And The Myth Of Prosperity In America’s Suburbs

Bruce Mitchell, a senior researcher at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said that “Anyone who was not northern-European white was considered to be a detraction from the value of the area.”

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