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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Local Lender Looks to Help Small North St. Louis Businesses

In a recent study, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition sent testers to inquire about small business loans at 60 bank branches in the Los Angeles area. The testers had nearly identical business profiles, with higher qualifications for the black and Hispanic testers. Yet white testers received more loan information, and friendlier customer service.

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CounterPunch: The Racial Wealth Divide Hurts the Entire Middle Class

Americans are more aware than ever that America has a race problem — and, more specifically, a racial wealth divide problem. As researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies and I found earlier this year, median white families are 41 times wealthier than median Black families in the United States.

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The University of Pennsylvania: Penn Institute for Urban Research and Wharton Public Policy Initiative Present “The Future of the Community Reinvestment Act,” Symposium Featuring Comments by Policy Makers and Academics Including Wharton Prof Susan Wachter, Sen. Sherrod Brown and the Urban Institute’s Laurie Goodman

Panel 2 will highlight policy implications and alternatives. Moderated by Kent Colton, The Colton Housing Group, presenters will include Buzz Roberts, National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders, Dafina Stewart, Bank Policy Institute, Gerron Levi, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Lawrence J. White, New York University, and Patricia McCoy, Boston College.

The University of Pennsylvania: Penn Institute for Urban Research and Wharton Public Policy Initiative Present “The Future of the Community Reinvestment Act,” Symposium Featuring Comments by Policy Makers and Academics Including Wharton Prof Susan Wachter, Sen. Sherrod Brown and the Urban Institute’s Laurie Goodman Read More »

Fast Company: This New Development Will Ask Buyers To Invest In A Fund To Give Back To The Community

While expensive development throughout Brooklyn has led to displacement of black and Hispanic residents over the past couple of decades, according to a report earlier this year from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Dumbo itself was mostly an industrial neighborhood, where old warehouses and factories were transformed into pricey lofts.

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Fast Company: This New Development Will Ask Buyers to Invest in a Fund to Give Back to the Community

While expensive development throughout Brooklyn has led to displacement of Black and Hispanic residents over the past couple of decades, according to a report earlier this year from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Dumbo itself was mostly an industrial neighborhood, where old warehouses and factories were transformed into pricey lofts.

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Washington Business Journal: Here’s How Creative Partnerships With Nonprofit Developers Can Ease The Affordable Housing Crisis

D.C. had the highest intensity of gentrification in the country between 2000 and 2013, according to a study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition; one of those neighborhoods is Columbia Heights.

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The Washington Post: Housing Advocates Push for More Aggressive Rent-Control Measures in DC

About 40% of the District’s lower-income neighborhoods experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013, according to a National Community Reinvestment Coalition study released earlier this year, giving it the greatest “intensity of gentrification” of any city in the country.

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