“It’s hard to even call it a policy. It doesn’t enforce anything,” said Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
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A recent study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition places Denver second among the most intensely gentrifying cities in America, behind only San Francisco.
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A recent study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition said the census tract where Carter lives is, in fact, “gentrified,” and it ranked Indianapolis No. 12 on a list of the most intensely gentrifying cities from 2013 to 2017.
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“This is terrible,” said Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The administration just gutted the rule that enforces fairness in housing, which was and still is the whole point of the Fair Housing Act. All of us have an interest in living in fair and desegregated communities.”
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Jesse Van Tol, the CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said the new rule removes “any real enforcement or any real oversight of affirmatively furthering fair housing.”
“The president was pretty transparent about his goals, and his goals are political,” Van Tol added.
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Jesse Van Tol, chief executive of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, called the claim that a five-year-old rule had ruined suburbs “both counterfactual and a transparent shout-out to white supremacists who don’t like that America’s suburbs, along with the entire country, have become more diverse.”
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New research suggests that Black business owners seeking PPP loans are treated less favorably than white applicants. The study, conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, used match-paired testers, a common method for showing discrimination in housing, lending and employment.
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New research suggests that Black business owners seeking PPP loans are treated less favorably than white applicants. The study, conducted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, used match-paired testers, a common method for showing discrimination in housing, lending and employment.
In June, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition reported that Boston is the third most gentrified city in the U.S., with 21.3% of Boston neighborhoods being gentrified between 2013 and 2017.
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“If it is possible for banking to actually play a role in shifting the wealth gap and significantly bringing assets to the most disenfranchised, you’re going to have to flip the model around,” said Moreno. “There is nobody I can think of who can flip the model around better than Malia Lazu.”
In 1936 a widowed black woman bought a home and it changed her family’s financial worth for generations. Today homeownership rates of black people lag even further behind whites’ rates, affecting their ability to build wealth.
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The rescue plan helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
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Analysts say the memos recast the USPS as a business rather than a government service
If we’re stuck with online school to keep teachers and students safe, we need to think harder about ways to make it more equitable, experts say.
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Atlanta-based online lender Kabbage Inc said on Wednesday that it will offer checking accounts for small businesses, making it the latest financial technology startup to expand its offering to a broader suite of banking services.
