The Community Reinvestment Act: Vital for Neighborhoods, the Country, and the Economy
By NCRC
/ June 24, 2016 October 23, 2017 / Research
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Redlining and Neighborhood Health
Before the pandemic devastated minority communities, banks and government officials starved them of capital.
Lower-income and minority neighborhoods that were intentionally cut off from lending and investment decades ago today suffer not only from reduced wealth and greater poverty, but from lower life expectancy and higher prevalence of chronic diseases that are risk factors for poor outcomes from COVID-19, a new study shows.