CIT Group has launched a community benefits plan developed in collaboration with the California Reinvestment Coalition and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
Monitor Daily: CIT, CRC, NCRC Launch $7.75B Community Benefits Plan Read More »
Apple CEO Tim Cook, unveiling a $2.5 billion plan to help alleviate California’s housing availability and affordability crisis, told Axios in an interview that Apple feels “a profound responsibility” to the region where it was born and thrived.
Axios: Apple Will Spend $2.5 Billion to Alleviate California Housing Crisis Read More »
In a recent study, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition sent testers to inquire about small business loans at 60 bank branches in the Los Angeles area. The testers had nearly identical business profiles, with higher qualifications for the black and Hispanic testers. Yet white testers received more loan information, and friendlier customer service.
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The number of housing discrimination complaints in 2018 is up by 8% to 31,202, the highest since NFHA began producing the annual Fair Housing Trends Report in 1995.
National Fair Housing Alliance: 2019 Fair Housing Trends Report Read More »
Not all parents can—or want to—invest time and resources into ever-more-elaborate observances of this holiday. Should it matter?
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Research shows that overly restrictive zoning makes it hard for developers to build new housing, driving up rents and prices.
Brookings: Is Zoning a Useful Tool or a Regulatory Barrier? Read More »
The CRASF membership works with financial institutions, state and local organizations as well as government to provide Community Reinvestment Act training and assistance, community advocacy, affordable housing, small business training and loan acquisition assistance.
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There have been multiple research reports recently that focused on the importance of lending for small businesses and provided a catalyst for further discussion.
Recent Research Shed Light on Minority Discouragement in Bank Small Business Lending Read More »
John Taylor, President and Founder of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, testified today at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Symposium: Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act.
NCRC President, Founder John Taylor Testifies at CFPB on Small Business Data Read More »
I’ve been asked to talk about the importance of small business data. I want to begin by sounding a warning we should all head. The income inequality in our country, the highest of any industrialized nation and the highest it has been in 50 years, is a festering calamity building towards an explosion of American
CFPB Symposium on Section 1071 Introduction – Importance of Small Business Loan Data The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) appreciates this opportunity to comment on the importance of data in understanding and monitoring the small business lending market. NCRC is an association of 600 community-based nonprofit organizations dedicated to increasing access to credit and capital
Operations Coordinator estevens@ncrc.org 202-628-8866 Emma Stevens is the Operations Coordinator at NCRC. Her responsibilities include managing inventory and serving as a back-up to other special assistants and departments. She has extensive administrative experience through her prior employment as an office assistant at both the Accessibility Resource Center and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at her university. Emma completed an
In the letter, Sarro praised the city for the resolution but said little has been done since to address the conditions in some of the housing units, including mold, pest infestation and lack of air conditioning, among other issues.
But Google and Apple — the valley’s two biggest tech property owners — differ wildly in a critical aspect: the way they use their resources in response to the region’s chronic housing crisis.
Americans are more aware than ever that America has a race problem — and, more specifically, a racial wealth divide problem. As researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies and I found earlier this year, median white families are 41 times wealthier than median Black families in the United States.
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