NCRC Hires Kathryn Orr as New Director of Entrepreneurship
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has added its first Director of Entrepreneurship.
We need the protests, and we need solutions
This is a painful moment for America, but especially and uniquely for African Americans who live with the threat of violence, injustice and police brutality every day, for communities where systemic racism undermines everything, and for a nation that has talked about these issues for too long and yet has been incapable of facing or correcting inequality that began with slavery.
COVID-19 and Mortgage Forbearance
Forbearance is an option available to borrowers where they can stop making payments on their home mortgage loan and then repay that amount at a later date. This rarely used option has taken on new significance since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthy Mobility: An Urgent, New Public Transportation Puzzle
Stay-at-home orders caused large decreases in ridership for public transit around the country.
Do CRA Ratings Reflect Differences in Performance: An Examination Using Federal Reserve Data
Key Findings Better outcomes on the retail lending test usually corresponded to higher ratings but the differences in performance were not as wide as expected Performance measures used to assess community loans and investments tended to indicate greater differences in bank performance across ratings categories This paper suggests the need for refining performance measures and
NCRC Hires Adam Rust as New Senior Policy Advisor on Digital Banking, Consumer Lending
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition has added a new senior policy advisor to its Membership and Policy team.
Kathryn Orr
Director of Entrepreneurship korr@ncrc.org 202.524.4874 Kathryn Orr is NCRC’s Director of Entrepreneurship, coming to the organization as the effects of COVID-19 on the small business community were materializing. She addresses the needs of Washington’s small business owners and equips them with the tools and strategies to strengthen their businesses and continue in the face of
Adam Rust
Senior Policy Advisor arust@ncrc.org 202.464.2714 Adam Rust is a Senior Policy Advisor at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, where he pursues the organization’s policy agenda for digital banking and consumer lending, as well as in its primary mission to defend the Community Reinvestment Act. From 2005 to 2020, he was Director of Research at Reinvestment Partners,
Limiting Interest Rate and Rate Spread Outliers in HMDA Data
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) included a number of new datapoints in the 2018 release of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data (HMDA), which came out in September 2019.
NCRC Comment Letter on Monzo’s Charter Application
(Download) May 21, 2019 RE: NCRC Comment Letter on Monzo’s Charter Application To Whom it May Concern: The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) maintains that Monzo’s charter application has not demonstrated a significant commitment to meeting the convenience and needs of the community to be served as required by the Community Reinvestment Act and the
Joint Statement On CRA Rule Changes From OCC
A group of 18 civil rights, consumer protection and industry leaders issued the following joint statement: Today, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced long-anticipated changes to rules that enforce the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The Federal Reserve Board decided not to join the proposed rule and has offered alternative approaches. The
Summary Fact Sheet on the OCC’s Final CRA Rule
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) final Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule released on May 20 would lessen the public accountability of banks to their communities by enacting performance measures on CRA exams that would be complex and opaque while at the same time over-simplifying how to measure bank’s responsiveness to local needs.
Community Orgs to Trump Administration on CRA Rule: “We’ll See You In Court”
The National Community Reinstatement Coalition (NCRC), the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC) and legal oversight group Democracy Forward announced today they intend to sue the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for unlawfully gutting the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
The Tightening of the Credit Market and the Perpetuation of the Recession
The government’s emergency spending to help businesses stay afloat isn’t enough to save the economy. Businesses need credit to manage day-to-day operations and to grow – and business lending from banks has dried up during the pandemic. If it doesn’t resume quickly, we’ll likely face a long and deep recession.
OCC Announces Final CRA Rule Changes, Moves Alone, Without FDIC or Federal Reserve
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced long-anticipated changes to rules that enforce the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had previously joined the OCC in the rule-making effort, but it did not join in the final rule released today.
The Economic Reality of Asian Americans, Including Intragroup Differences
Demystifying blanket assumptions regarding the economic status of Asian Americans is key in understanding the large disparities that live within the group, and can help reduce intra-group inequalities.
New HMDA Data Reveals Racial Disparities in Older Adult Lending
NCRC’s new report, Mortgages and Older Adults After COVID-19, used this new information to highlight trends in homebuying, aging in place and use of home equity.
Racial Wealth Snapshot: Asian Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide
Download Infographic Introduction Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and are predicted to be the nation’s largest immigrant group in 50 years.[1] Asian American is a racial category that includes Americans who are from or whose relatives are from a diverse group of countries: China, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan,
Racial Health and Economic Disparities are Two Sides of the Same Coin
COVID-19 continues to aggravate deeply embedded inequalities. We need bold policy solutions aimed at bridging the racial wealth divide now more than ever.
Senate Banking Committee Highlights CRA in Oversight Hearing of Federal Banking Regulators
Members of the Senate Banking Committee today questioned why, in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, bank regulators are moving forward with proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) that would cripple COVID-19 recovery efforts in low- and moderate-income communities and communities of color.
Retired or Working, Coronavirus Likely to Doubly Hit Older Americans
COVID-19 is more likely to harm elderly adults. They are also more vulnerable to the economic downturn brought on by the pandemic. In an April data brief, the National Council on Aging (NCOA) studied wealth and income data on adults above the age of 60 throughout the Great Recession. The brief found significant correlations between
NCRC Urges Senate Committee to Pressure OCC, FDIC to Drop Proposed Changes to CRA
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs is scheduled to conduct a virtual hearing on the oversight of financial regulators, with testimony from Office of the Comptroller of Currency’s (OCC) Comptroller Joseph Otting and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Jelena McWilliams.
Mortgages and Older Adults after COVID-19
Key Findings 30% of mortgages in 2018 went to older adults. 67% of older adults who took out mortgages were refinancing their homes and 68% of those used the mortgage to access the equity in their homes. Older borrowers were Whiter than younger borrowers. As with younger borrowers, there are racial disparities in interest rates
How Participatory Budgeting can create affordable housing and a just economy
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide together how to spend part of a public budget.
Our Interconnected Health: Part 2
Given the connections between health and other sectors outlined in Part 1, multi-sector community partnerships and cross-sector policy efforts are key – both to addressing the spread of COVID-19 and its far-reaching consequences, as well as to improving the health of individuals and communities more broadly.
