“I think he will chart his own path but certainly what we’ve seen from him so far is continuing to push this administration’s agenda,” Van Tol said.
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“It is really time to evaluate the infrastructure of American finance, and identify why, not just lending, but sustainable, affordable lending is so hard for all lower- and moderate-income people, as well as very small businesses to come by,” Petrou said. “The United States financial system has become incredibly unequal in many ways.”
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Five-year reinvestment plan directs resources to underserved communities.
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As real estate agents scramble for new business, compliance with civil rights laws may not be the first thing on their minds. Yet evidence suggests that as housing sales plummeted in April, the amount of racial discrimination in the housing sales market plummeted alongside it.
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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.
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San Francisco was the most intensely gentrified city in America from 2013 to 2017, a new study found. It was followed by Denver, Boston, Miami and New Orleans. They had the largest share of their vulnerable neighborhoods that gentrified during that time period. The study, from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, is a follow-up to
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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition has been pivotal in providing the investment capital and knowledge to help Greenlining replace blighted buildings and spur homeownership and community development.
Groups including the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which promotes fairness in lending and housing, were scheduled to meet with representatives from the country’s largest mortgage lenders on Thursday, according to the coalition’s chief executive officer, Jesse Van Tol.
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The letter from leading California-based and California-serving community organizations and leaders, joins similar calls for a freeze on CRA rulemaking by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, National Community Economic Development Association, the President’s Council on Impact Investing, and industry groups, including the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA).
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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), a national coalition of local community-based advocates, emphasizes that, “This grave pandemic demands a comprehensive and all-encompassing response. The health and wellbeing of our fellow citizens and residents are at stake.”
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“Every community group across the country has been affected in terms of their ability to comment on rulemaking,” said Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “There are organizations out there that don’t have laptops — they use desktop computers that are pre-webcam, even pre-word processing.”
To press forward during a global pandemic is “beyond tone deaf,” Van Tol said.
Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), and John Taylor, Founder and President of NCRC, made the following statements:
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