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Liu suggested racism also played a part in the funding disparities, citing research conducted in April by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The group conducted matched-pair testing in D.C., where pairs of Black and white applicants with similar credit applied for loans during the same time period.

Intentionally or unintentionally, they discriminate. When the National Community Reinvestment Coalition sent Black and white “mystery shoppers” to apply for Paycheck Protection Program funds at 17 different banks, including community lenders, Black shoppers with better financial profiles frequently received worse treatment.

“The National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that 74 percent of the original redlined districts are still heavily segregated and at a severe economic disadvantage today,” said Forsberg. “Lansing is no exception. In our former redlined areas, there is still a large concentration of minority families with a high poverty rate.”

National Bank of Canada, Quicken, CIBC, Ozone API, Desjardins, Authlete, Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA), Empower Retirement, FCT, Servus Credit Union, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, RattleHub, and Tangerine Bank Among New Members Joining

Architecture is never neutral; it either heals or hurts. According to a study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, three out of four neighborhoods that were redlined on government maps 80 years ago continue to struggle economically.

“Redlining and Neighborhood Health” was reported today by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition with researchers from the University of Richmond Scholarship Lab and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Joseph J. Ziber School of Public Health.

“Through years of intentional governmental policies that removed lands and resources, American Indians have been separated from the wealth and assets that was rightfully theirs,” writes the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization dedicated to creating opportunities for people to build wealth. “Thus Native Americans, which refers to people from any of the many indigenous groups of North, Central and South America, continue to be disenfranchised through a racial wealth divide like Latinos and African Americans.”

Liu suggested racism also played a part in the funding disparities, citing research conducted in April by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The group conducted matched-pair testing in D.C., where pairs of Black and white applicants with similar credit applied for loans during the same time period.

“Historical structural racism created economic and health disparities we see today,” Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said in the report’s release. “That’s an old problem, but the pandemic should be a wake-up call.”

Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said higher rates of infection and deaths “in communities of color” were already known, “but this study gives us a deeper understanding of why,” he said.

The new study, from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) with researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health and the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, compared 1930’s maps of government-sanctioned lending discrimination zones with current census and public health data.

According to a new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, those same neighborhoods are also at greater risk for COVID-19.

Residents in several of Columbia’s historically Black neighborhoods face shorter lifespans and greater risk factors for COVID-19, according to a new study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a Washington D.C. based non-profit.

A new report released by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), a nonprofit fighting to end discrimination in lending, housing, and business, shows that people in neighborhoods that were redlined over 80 years ago are at a higher risk of severe illness or death from Covid-19.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition provides a possible explanation: Researchers found banks treat Black applicants different from white applicants, encouraging white business owners to apply for one or more loans while discouraging Black business owners from applying for any.