The award recognizes a government or industry leader who demonstrates outstanding commitment to the field of economic justice.
Bruce Murphy receives NCRC Representative Henry B. Gonzalez Award Read More »
Bank regulators have not even proposed a plan yet for overhauling the Community Reinvestment Act, but stakeholders likely to weigh in on the plan are already establishing battle lines.
American Banker: No shortage of ideas on CRA overhaul as official plan remains mystery Read More »
The 2018 Just Economy Conference will take place April 9-11 at the Washington Hilton, in Washington, DC. This is the national event for economic justice leaders, policy-makers, journalists, academics and entrepreneurs concerned about fairness in the nation’s housing and banking systems. The conference is organized by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
The treasury secretary has discovered the key to Cabinet survival: flattering the boss.
She started at NCRC as a regional coordinator in 2015.
Ibijoke Akinbowale named director of NCRC Housing Counseling Network Read More »
Today, and every day, we honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s courage and vision by standing unafraid and fully committed to a more racially and economically just America.
Fifty years after the death of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read More »
Here’s what the Treasury Department’s changes would do, and wouldn’t, toward solving four major problems we have outlined in our investigation.
Reveal: Does the Trump administration’s plan to modernize anti-blight laws stack up? Read More »
A Q&A with Georgia Congressman John Lewis on how King recruited him into the civil-rights movement, what it was like to know the iconic activist, and how King’s legacy has shaped the world today.
The Atlantic: King ‘inspired me to get in trouble’ Read More »
The Department of Treasury has released a long-awaited report recommending the first meaningful reform to the Community Reinvestment Act since 1995.
Treasury’s CRA reform has arrived: It’s good, it’s bad, it’s vague Read More »
The report “addressed what we have for a long time talked about with assessment areas. We think that is a step in the right direction,” said John Taylor, President and CEO of NCRC. But Taylor wanted to make sure that regulators do not lose sight of the importance of branch locations if they expand the assessments to other areas.
American Banker: 5 takeaways from Treasury’s call to action on CRA Read More »
For the first time in 50 years Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson return together to the motel balcony where their mentor, Martin Luther King Jr., was fatally shot in 1968.
CNN: ‘A wound that remains raw’ Read More »
Trump administration kicks off reassessment of 1977 law that has ‘not kept pace’ with changes in banking
The Wall Street Journal: Rules for lending to the poor under review Read More »
The Treasury’s recommendations come as federal bank regulators have indicated they will soon release a proposal to reform Community Reinvestment Act policy.
American Banker: Flexible boundaries and exams: how treasury would modernize CRA Read More »
Political scientists are finding an alarming pattern.
Vox: Democratic politicians represent middle-class voters. GOP politicians don’t. Read More »
Though blacks and whites represent similar shares of the population in the Philadelphia metro area, Reveal found white borrowers received 10 times as many conventional home loans as black ones.
Reveal: Community groups propose redlining solutions to Philadelphia City Council Read More »
