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The Center for Public Integrity: PPP Loans Were supposed to Prioritize Low-income Areas During The Pandemic. They Didn’t.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition said it found unequal treatment during its “mystery shopper” tests of national and regional banks, in which pairs of testers with similar financial profiles but different races asked for small-business assistance.

The Center for Public Integrity: PPP Loans Were supposed to Prioritize Low-income Areas During The Pandemic. They Didn’t. Read More »

WFAA: Minority groups organizing in Dallas to open dialogue with banks, increase lending

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, or NCRC, has successfully organized communities across the country and is now focusing on Dallas. It provides data, experience and guidance in how to take advantage of the CRA and encourage banks to lend more money in underserved communities.

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The News & Observer: Residents of NC’s redlined neighborhoods have higher COVID-19 risk, study shows

People living in Durham neighborhoods that were racially redlined in the early to mid 1900s have a higher COVID-19 risk than people in neighborhoods that weren’t discriminated against, according to a study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

The News & Observer: Residents of NC’s redlined neighborhoods have higher COVID-19 risk, study shows Read More »

Street Sense Media: Rent control omnibus legislation gets hearing with sharp divide between tenant advocates and housing providers

Last year, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition released a study that showed the effects of gentrification in the District: more than 20,000 Black residents were pushed out of the city from 2000-2013 as a result of displacement, and D.C. had the highest percentage of gentrification of the cities analyzed.

Street Sense Media: Rent control omnibus legislation gets hearing with sharp divide between tenant advocates and housing providers Read More »

Reuters: Exclusive: U.S. watchdogs train sights on lender misconduct in pandemic aid program

A study this month by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington-based non-profit, also found that Black women and Hispanic men posing as interested PPP borrowers at 47 lenders “were treated less favorably” compared with their White counterparts, despite having stronger finances.

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WFAA: ‘They underestimate what we can do’: WFAA finds banks exclude Blacks, Hispanics in Southern Dallas from access to loans

A group called the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has tallied all the bank branches in Dallas County. Above I-30, there are 474. Southern Dallas has 58.

WFAA: ‘They underestimate what we can do’: WFAA finds banks exclude Blacks, Hispanics in Southern Dallas from access to loans Read More »

The Washington Post: Black businesses are fighting for their lives. We can’t afford to lose them.

In two separate tests, the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that Black people seeking small-business loans under coronavirus relief programs were treated less favorably than Whites — even when they had stronger financial profiles.

The Washington Post: Black businesses are fighting for their lives. We can’t afford to lose them. Read More »

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