September 15, 2026, Next City, A Critical Few Weeks Ahead for Community Development Finance The proposed new CRA rules lift the thresholds for all three levels. Small banks would top out at $1 billion in assets; intermediate banks would be those from $1 billion to $10 billion in assets; and large banks above $10 billion
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September 12, 2026, Banker & Tradesman, Proposed Federal CRA Changes Would Harm Affordable Housing Production OBBB increased the supply of critical low-income housing tax credits and ROAD significantly increased demand for these and other credits by raising the Public Welfare Investment Cap, which governs banks’ ability to invest in such activities. This proposed regulatory change
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September 10, 2026, Brookings Institution, Opportunity Zones: Analyzing the tax incentive’s impacts, and how to enhance them Many of the neighborhoods experiencing demographic and economic change were already on that trajectory before OZ designations took effect. An early analysis from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found high overlap and adjacency (69%) between OZs and census
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September 8, 2026, Fast Company, URL Media Supports Reporting in Underserved Communities URL distributed $250,000 in rapid-response grants in the first quarter of 2025, and that helped lead to a program with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition to provide low-interest financing to community media organizations.
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Washington State has one of the most complex housing ecosystems in the country. Increasing tech salaries has driven some of the highest cost-of-living rates in the nation, while homeownership has become unaffordable for 80% of households. Low- and moderate-income residents face rising housing costs, displacement pressures, widening wealth gaps and uneven access to capital. As
