The New York Times: The Trump Administration Is Clearing the Way for Housing Discrimination
The attack on the Fair Housing Act is reckless and wrong.
The attack on the Fair Housing Act is reckless and wrong.
The Trump Administration will tell Puerto Rico to stop paying contractors on disaster projects $15 an hour if the island wants a pot of disaster aid, officials familiar with the plan said.
Low pay, soaring rents, and cities littered with e-scooters. Welcome to the future.
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Program Coordinator, Fair Housing/Fair Lending soros@ncrc.org 202-393-8308 Sara Oros is the Fair Housing/Fair Lending Program Coordinator at NCRC. Sara attended Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Political Science and a focus in business administration. Prior to this role, she was a communications and development intern at NCRC. She
These initiatives are outlined in the bank’s 2019-2023 Community Benefits Plan, created with input from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition told The Washington Post that banks approved an average of $78 billion a year between 2012 and 2017 in community development loans and $55 billion a year in small business loans in low-income areas.
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D.C. is the most gentrified city in the United States, according to a study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition released in 2019. This is to say, about 40 percent of the city’s low-income neighborhoods experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013. The study defines gentrification as “an influx of investment and changes to the built environment lead[ing] to rising home values, family incomes and educational levels of residents.”
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“One thing everyone was consistent on was this dollar volume metric was a bad idea,” says Jesse Van Tol, CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “Nonetheless the OCC has pressed forward with something that adds some bells and whistles to the one metric, but ends up as still fundamentally the driving force behind the grading scheme.”
Next City: A Tale of Two Community Reinvestment Act Proposals Read More »
On Wednesday, January 29, join Oscar Perry Abello, Next City’s senior economics correspondent, as he leads a virtual panel discussion on the purpose of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), how a new proposal could negatively impact low- and moderate-income individuals, and equitable ways in which the act can be improved.
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“The proposed changes are substantial, dilutive and would weaken the effectiveness of the law,” said Gerron Levi, policy director of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “I can say, without equivocation, the winners would be the nation’s largest banks and the losers would be low- and moderate-income and underserved borrowers and communities.”
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More evidence emerges of racial disparity between what bank customers pay in monthly ATM and checking-overdraft fees.
New awards program at the Just Economy Conference will recognize young economic and social justice leaders.
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Under the proposed Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) regulatory changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), financing to improve stadiums located in low- and moderate-income (LMI) areas that are designated Opportunity Zones (OZ) would be credited to a bank, improving their CRA ratings. NCRC examined the
CRA reform proposals would count sports stadiums as community development! Read More »
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are proposing regulatory changes to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) that make it easier for banks to get an “Outstanding” rating while underserving people and communities with low- and moderate-incomes (LMI) that it was meant to help. Under the
Long an outlier in Toronto’s feverish property wars, Parkdale’s deep-seated problems were being turned around by its Tibetan community – but then the huge global real estate firms rolled in.