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NCRC Initial Analysis of the CFPB SBREFA Panel Outline: A Step in the Right Direction but Improvements Sought

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The CFPB’s initial proposals for the small business lending data take some steps in the right direction such as including a broad range of institutions from banks to non-bank financial technology companies that would be required to report data. However, some proposals would keep lending activity in the dark such as the proposal to not report Merchant Cash Advances, a form of credit that is higher cost and has been subject to abuses. 

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A Literature Review of Poverty, Race and Gender Among Older Adults

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An individual’s well-being and long-term financial sustainability is derived from the ability to build and acquire assets, such as savings, homes, cars or businesses. Around 55% of Americans live in asset-poverty which means they lack sufficient wealth to sustain a livelihood above the poverty level for at least 3 months.

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De facto or de jure housing inequities: The outcomes are the same

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As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded in St. Louis, the maps of the infections looked very familiar to those of us who work to promote integrated and inclusive communities. Unsurprisingly, it was having a greater toll on the city’s majority-Black neighborhoods, where maps already showed elevated rates of asthma and lead poisoning.

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Environmental Justice and COVID-19: Some are Living in a Syndemic

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Like most American cities, Memphis has a long history of racist housing and environmental policies. As this report from NCRC and its university partners shows, this history has real world impacts today, resulting in worse health outcomes for Black neighborhoods, shorter lifespans, poorer overall health and greater risk of several complications due to COVID-19. 

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Why the Community Reinvestment Act should be expanded broadly across the financial industry

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An antidote to discrimination, the Community Reinvestment Act says banks have an affirmative obligation to serve all communities. It’s time to extend that obligation to all of the financial sector, including insurance, securities and non-bank mortgage lenders.

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NCRC, Two Other Advocacy Groups, File Joint Amicus Brief in Lacewell v. OCC

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Last week, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) joined with the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) to file an amicus brief in the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s appeal in Lacewell  v. OCC  in the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals.  

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