Posts about NCRC research.
Executive Summary NCRC proposes to add underserved census tracts as a criterion on component tests on CRA exams. NCRC identifies underserved tracts as those that receive low levels of lending per housing units and small businesses. A significant portion of these tracts are predominantly minority. NCRC estimated that adding these tracts on CRA exams would …
The SBA didn’t require demographic data and most PPP applications didn’t include it.
This white paper describes NCRC’s suggested rating system and discusses our forecasts of increased dollars for LMI neighborhoods.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the 2019 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data on June 24, 2020, detailing mortgage lending information from nearly all lenders in the United States. HMDA offers details on 9.3 million originations resulting from over 17.5 million applications.
Introduction The National Community Reinvestment Coalition has analyzed new data available to researchers for the first time to determine borrower patterns among same-sex couples, in comparison to different-sex couples. Our research question was, will same-sex couples pay higher closing costs and more interest on mortgage loans than different-sex couples? From our analysis of 2018 Home …
San Francisco was the most intensely gentrified city in America from 2013 to 2017, a new study found. But the emergence of COVID-19 exposed deep economic and social fault lines nationwide. While a small number of cities were booming, most were not.
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 …
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.
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.
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 Wealth Snapshot: Asian Americans and the Racial Wealth Divide Read More »
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 …
This month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced the new Borrower Protection Program that streamlines consumer protection oversight of mortgage servicers through new data and information sharing between the program sponsors as they respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
In a confusing and scary time, the CFPB is a source for unbiased and informed information on a variety of financial hurdles that families can expect to face in the coming months.
We already know that Black and Hispanic-owned small businesses are severely under- represented in communities, and the COVID-19 pandemic will likely damage these businesses especially hard. In a report that should surprise no one, researchers with the JPMorgan Chase Institute found that businesses located in Black and Hispanic communities are less likely to have the cash …
COVID-19 Hits Black and Hispanic Businesses Hardest of All Read More »
Executive Summary The proposed changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would radically reconfigure the testing criteria for banks. A new testing regime would assess low- and moderate-income (LMI) home mortgage and small business lending with a demographic comparison …
