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The Eagle, May 21, 2025, DC’s Go-Go Museum & Café Officially Opens To Public Don’t Mute D.C. and the celebration of the city’s Go-Go music history is a small part of the conversation around gentrification in the District. More than 20,000 Black Washingtonians were displaced from gentrification from 2000 to 2013, according to the National Community Reinvestment […]

Yahoo! Finance, March 3, 2025, Redlining In Real Estate: How Discriminatory Practices Still Affect Black Communities According to Q4 2024 Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), over 74% of white residents own their homes — a stark difference from the 46.4% homeownership rate for Black residents. Limited access to credit, institutionalized by redlining, is just one

Navajo-Hopi Observer, March 18, 2025, Change Labs Offers Navajo Entrepreneurs Tools For Business Success After working with the nonprofit, her company has won the Phoenix Indian Center’s Business of the Year for the American Indian Excellence in Leadership Award in 2024. Change Labs receives funding from a variety of places, including Wells Fargo Bank’s Invest

The Banker, February 18, 2025, What’s next for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Critics say the move effectively stops the CFPB from doing much of its work. Jesse Van Tol, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a non-profit organisation, said Vought is “illegally trying to shut down a congressionally created agency”, referring to the

Politico, February 14, 2025, DOGE discussing Housing Department layoffs “I’m not particularly optimistic about DOGE’s impact on federal agencies,” said Jesse Van Tol, the president and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a group of nonprofits that promote economic development Van Tol said the impact of DOGE’s HUD layoffs would reverberate quickly. “You shut

BET, February 6, 2025, The Timeline: Black Homeownership Generational wealth is at stake as the fight for Black homeownership continues under a government hostile to equity. “I’m pretty concerned that we’re going to see two things: the first will be a lack of enforcement so that lenders who are not lending in redlined communities, who

Citylimits, February 6, 2025, Tale of Two Cities: Report Finds Stark Racial Wealth Gap Among New Yorkers “The gains in average wealth of white households have come from multiple sources including business assets and rental properties while Black and Hispanic households’ gains have come overwhelming[ly] from home equity,” said Joseph Dean, racial economic junior research

Housingwire, February 3, 2025, New CFPB director Bessent orders agency to stop working The Trump administration’s move to stop the CFPB’s work “means inviting scammers and swindlers into working families’ bank accounts,” said Jesse Van Tol, President and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “It means instability, uncertainty and exposure. Chaos only benefits bad actors. I

Daily Hampshire Gazette, February 3, 2025, Treehouse Names Erika Kuester New Leader During ‘pivotal’ Time For Nonprofit Kuester brings a deep history of community organizing work to her new role, previously working for organizations such as Leadership for Educational Equity, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and Direct Action & Research Training. Throughout her years of work

Westworld, February 2, 2025, Opinion: Denver Is Doubling Down on a Decade of Failed Policies In 2020, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition ranked Denver as the second most gentrified city in the nation. The top-ranked city, San Francisco, offers a cautionary tale: Restrictive housing policies have driven land values and rents far beyond what working-class