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Investing in underserved communities takes more than a promise – it also takes a plan to keep that promise. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has developed multiple techniques to ensure that bank commitments translate into meaningful change for historically disadvantaged neighborhoods and that the people who live there, and organizations that service them, have
American Banker, August 21, 2025, As crypto trust applications grow, so do banks’ objections Squires currently serves on the Fair Housing Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Social Science Advisory Board of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council. Over his career, he has also served as a
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The Monroe County Reporter, August 11, 2025, OPINION: Why more Georgians are turning to Credit Unions Finally, credit unions are not buying up banks to become them. We are stepping in where banks have walked away. Between 2012 and 2022, more than 4,000 bank branches closed across the U.S., disproportionately in rural and low-income communities (National Community
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Crain’s Chicago Business, August 11, 2025, Government job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy “The federal government has played a unique role in the labor history of Black Americans,” economic researcher Joseph Dean wrote in a February report by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The decades-long progress made by Black
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Buffalo News, August 8, 2025, Reflecting on Key-First Niagara deal, a decade later Before the deal was even finalized, Key and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition announced a $16.5 community benefits plan touching markets in all 15 states where Key operated. The plan called for mortgage, small business and community development lending, as well as
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Banking Dive, July 30, 2025, Capital One delivers few details on $265B community plan Some critics have said the company’s $265 billion figure is misleading. An analysis of Capital One’s plan by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition asserts that it amounts to $5 billion in new lending, investment and grant activity. In reality, the community benefits plan
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Law360, July 23, 2025, CFPB Sued Over Retreat From Biden-Era Small-Biz Loan Rule Vought and the CFPB “consciously and expressly adopted a general policy of abdicating their statutory responsibility to enforce Section 1071,” the plaintiffs said in their complaint. “Defendants have acted not in accordance with law and in excess of statutory authority.” Representatives for
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American Banker, July 24, 2025, Consumer groups sue CFPB over small-business data rule “We are suing to make them adhere to the law and fulfill their responsibilities to the American people,” Jesse Van Tol, president and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said in a press release Wednesday. The plaintiffs include the National Community
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URL Media, July 16, 2025, Press Forward awards URL Media and NCRC $1.25 million to launch low-interest loans for BIPOC publishers; network partners also win funds in competitive open call URL Media and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition plan an expansion of their pilot program, the Media Resilience Fund, to provide low-interest financing to community media, particularly those
A debate is boiling in South Memphis over whether the potential economic benefits of an artificial intelligence facility outweigh the pollution-related health impacts to residents. Many low-income communities elsewhere may soon find themselves grappling with the same question. Residents of Boxtown, a predominantly Black community bordering the facility, are fighting to protect their health after
Daylight San Diego, May 20, 2025, San Diego’s Redlining Legacy Revealed Through ‘Beyond the Line’ Art And Storytelling According to an analysis of U.S. Census data by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a group of nonprofits that conducts research and grantmaking to support housing equality, in 1960, when segregation was still legal, there was a 27.3% gap
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The Epoch Times, May 20, 2025, US Home Prices Tick Down in April Amid Persistently High Mortgage Rates More than 50 organizations have endorsed the bill, including the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the statement said. “Housing means dignity,
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Axios Atlanta, May 19, 2025, Atlanta Ranks Fourth In Gentrification Wiping Out Majority-Black Areas By the numbers: According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s report, metro Atlanta ranks fourth among areas where gentrification eliminated majority-Black census tracts from 1980 to 2020. What they’re saying: Bruce Mitchell, principal researcher at the Coalition, told Axios the report debunks myths floated by
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Next City, May 19, 2025, In the Past 50 Years, We’ve Lost More Than 150 Majority-Black Neighborhoods While gentrification is still relatively uncommon, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s new “Displaced By Design” report concludes, its harms can be intense and lasting – namely displacement of disinvested communities. From 1980 to 2020, gentrification impacted more than 1,800 downtown
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Credit and Collection News, May 18, 2025, Meet The Regulator Set To Reshape U.S. Banking Opponents of tailoring say it amounts to a loosening of oversight that prioritizes efficiency over safety, or holding banks to stringent risk and capital standards. It is part of a wider set of criticisms about Bowman’s industry views. Jesse Van
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