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Opportunity Zones: A Taxpayer-Funded Program That Primarily Benefits Wealthy Investors

Seven years after its creation, the federal Opportunity Zones program has manifested a troubling pattern: creating massive taxpayer-funded benefits for wealthy investors while failing to meaningfully help the communities they were designed to serve. With the wealthiest Americans receiving substantial tax benefits on over $100 billion in capital gains through this program, Opportunity Zones represent […]

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Video: Member Webinar: Building AI-Supported Research Reports

Online Event Archive Recorded: July 26, 2025 Watch a member-focused webinar to showcase our new report-generation capabilities. NCRC’s Research team demonstrates how they create customized reports for NCRC members. Using data curated for NCRC members’ unique needs, we work with each member to produce bespoke reports that target the specific places and issues that matter

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Video: Gentrification Nation: Displaced By Design

Online Event Archive Recorded: June 5, 2025 Over the past five decades, gentrification has fundamentally reshaped America’s urban neighborhoods, creating complex dynamics of revitalization and displacement. Our recently released comprehensive analysis, Displaced By Design, reveals that gentrification, once confined to small parts of some cities, is on the rise across many housing markets. The human cost

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“Opportunity Zones” for Whom? Lack of Equitable Development Outcomes Highlights Need for Reforms to Key Program

In most American communities, one will see sleek, newly constructed luxury apartments, a variety of trendy eateries, carefully manicured shrubbery and the new well-to-do residents seemingly without a care in the world on one block. Then, one will see the bleak, dilapidated buildings, gaudy fast-food restaurants, tree-barren landscapes and the established residents that are struggling

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Atlanta ranks fourth in gentrification wiping out majority-Black areas

Axios Atlanta, May 19, 2025, Atlanta Ranks Fourth In Gentrification Wiping Out Majority-Black Areas By the numbers: According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s report, metro Atlanta ranks fourth among areas where gentrification eliminated majority-Black census tracts from 1980 to 2020. What they’re saying: Bruce Mitchell, principal researcher at the Coalition, told Axios the report debunks myths floated by

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Philadelphia featured in new report tracking pace of gentrification across major US cities

Audacy, May 14, 2025, Philadelphia Featured In New Report Tracking Pace Of Gentrification Across Major US Cities The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s report finds that overall, gentrification across the United States over the past 50 years has been rare, impacting 15% of urban neighborhoods, but it is increasing. Bruce Mitchell, principal researcher with NCRC, says between 1980

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Nashville experiencing most ‘intense’ gentrification in US, new report says

The Tennessean, May 14, 2025, Nashville Experiencing Most ‘intense’ Gentrification In US, New Report Says Nashville exhibited the most “intense” gentrification of any U.S. city between 2010 and 2020, beating out cities with long histories of racial and cultural displacement like Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area, according to a National Community Reinvestment

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Dual-Language Immersion Programs and School Diversity in the Bay Area

The Century Foundation, March 13, 2025, Dual-Language Immersion Programs and School Diversity in the Bay Area 1. Identify priority campuses for new DLI programs. Districts should, whenever possible, establish new DLI programs on campuses with significant numbers of ELs and/or native speakers of the potential DLI program’s non-English partner language. The precise EL enrollment threshold may vary:

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Video: The HMDA Longitudinal Dataset: Tracking Mortgage Lending 1981-2021

Online Event Archive Recorded: October 2, 2024 NCRC Principal Researcher Bruce Mitchell presented the HMDA Longitudinal Data Set (HLD), a comprehensive mortgage lending dataset from 1981 to 2021. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, HLD standardizes mortgage data to 2010 census boundaries, enabling consistent comparisons over four decades. The dataset includes mortgage originations by

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