“Candidates … are looking for ways to raise issues that are inherently about racial justice. They want to make sure they are mobilizing black and Latino voters,” said Maurice BP-Weeks, co-executive director of Action Center on Race & the Economy.
Reuters: Democrats push financial inclusion as 2020 election race heats up Read More »
Stephen Moore, the conservative economist whom President Trump plans to nominate for a seat on the Federal Reserve, owes $75,000 in unpaid federal taxes, interest and penalties, according to court documents filed last year.
The New York Times: Trump’s Fed pick owes $75,000 in unpaid federal taxes Read More »
Income inequality and income segregation often are discussed in terms of the neighborhoods people live in. Here, the focus is on identifying where people of different incomes do or don’t encounter one another as they move about the city to work, eat, do errands, or soak up arts and culture.
Next City: ‘Atlas of inequality’ maps where rich, poor do and don’t mix Read More »
Facebook has already banned white supremacy from its networks and now it is also including white nationalism and separatists to the list.
Mother Jones: Facebook just announced plans to ban white nationalists and separatists Read More »
A new study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found substantial levels of gentrification in many big city neighborhoods, but concluded there was no area of Evanston that is experiencing gentrification.
Evanston Now: Study finds no gentrification in Evanston Read More »
Though third-largest by population, Chicago ranked seventh in the number of census tracts that gentrified between 2000 and 2013, according to the report “Shifting Neighborhoods,” released last week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, based in Washington D.C.
The institute which conducted the study, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, defines gentrification as the process by which money is invested in lower-income areas, causing increased property values and the entrance of higher-income residents. In recent years, as Philadelphia’s former industrial districts like Fishtown and Kensington have risen in value, the displacement which followed has disproportionately affected Latino and black residents.
A new interactive map shows which Baltimore neighborhoods have been gentrified and which groups of people were ultimately forced out of their homes as a result. The map was one element in a groundbreaking study published this week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
Patch: Baltimore among most gentrified cities in U.S.: study Read More »
Between 2000 and 2013, Washington, D.C., experienced the greatest “intensity of gentrification” of any U.S. city, according to a study released Tuesday by the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
A new interactive map shows areas near Prospect Park’s southern have seen significant gentrification while a swath of East Flatbush is primed for the economic shift to occur, according to National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit.
Patch: Gentrification hits Prospect Park South, new data show Read More »
The National community Reinvestment Coalition released a report about the gentrification in America and it predicts that Brownsville, a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, is next to experience a wave of gentrification.
BK Reader: Brownsville could be next to face gentrification Read More »
Keybank has awarded Anchorage Community Land Trust with a $75,000 grant as part of a $16-billion community benefits agreement with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
Anchorage Press: PROGRESS: Setting up shot Read More »
Chicago, Washington D.C., New York City and Philadelphia are among seven cities that account for nearly half the gentrification in the United States, according to a study released this week by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Diego round out the top seven. In contrast, researchers found that medium and small cities were unlikely to be touched by gentrification.
Route Fifty: Gentrification is most concentrated in large cities Read More »
What is certain is that banks are not yet speaking with a common voice on CRA modernization, and doing so is an understandably difficult task given the growing number of business models that define modern banking.
Banking Exchange: Banks looking for common ground on CRA modernization Read More »
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has a reputation of fending off attempted government reform, which is raising concerns about the amount of power they encapsulate and what they can do — avoid — with such power.
American Banker: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are way too big Read More »
