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Invest in Health and Wealth: Stabilizing Underserved Communities While Fighting a Pandemic

Invest in Health and Wealth: Stabilizing Underserved Communities While Fighting a Pandemic Register Today October 13-15 • 9:00 AM-11:30 AM (ET) Health & Wealth This three-day virtual event (Tuesday, October 13 through Thursday, October 15 from 9:00 AM-11:30 AM each day) will bring together community leaders, financial institutions, health care leaders, advocacy groups and public

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COVID-19 Disparities in Rochester, NY: The Legacy of Redlining in the City of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony

T     Barbara Van Kerkhove, Ph.D. Researcher/Policy Analyst, Empire Justice Center Barbara Van Kerkhove is a researcher/policy analyst in Empire Justice Center’s Rochester, New York, office where she does research and advocacy on a variety of consumer finance and economic justice issues. She is the principal author of “Too Big to Fail…Too Poor to

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NCRC Comment Letter on HUD’s Proposed Rulemaking on the Equal Access Rule

September 22, 2020 Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20410-0500. Re: HUD Docket No. FR-6152-P-01 Making Admission or Placement Determinations Based on Sex in Facilities Under Community Planning and Development Housing Programs Dear Secretary Carson: The National Community Reinvestment Coalition is vehemently opposed

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NCRC Comment on Formative Application to OCC

(Download) September 23rd, 2020 John O’Brien Licensing Manager Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Central District 425 S. Financial Place, Suite 1700 Chicago, IL 60605 CE.Licensing@occ.treas.gov RE: Formative Bank, N.A. Interagency Charter and Federal Deposit Insurance Application Dear Mr. O’Brien: The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, joined by the National Consumer Law Center (on behalf

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De facto or de jure housing inequities: The outcomes are the same

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded in St. Louis, the maps of the infections looked very familiar to those of us who work to promote integrated and inclusive communities. Unsurprisingly, it was having a greater toll on the city’s majority-Black neighborhoods, where maps already showed elevated rates of asthma and lead poisoning.

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Just Economy Session – Older Adults, Banking and Financial Management During COVID-19

Based on in-depth research with over 90 low- and moderate-income older adults, we uncover barriers to fintech adoption and some key opportunities to better design fintech products and services to support this population during the pandemic and beyond.

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Joint Comment: Final Qualified Mortgage (QM) Rule Must Effectively Protect Consumers and Promote Access to Responsible Mortgage Credit

(Download) Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) qualified mortgage (QM) proposed rule. Given CFPB’s decision to end the GSE patch, we believe that a price-based approach is an appropriate and effective method to determine QM status. However, additional safeguards are necessary to ensure that the final rule

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