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Lending Discrimination within the Paycheck Protection Program

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Lending Discrimination within the Paycheck Protection Program Anneliese Lederer, Director of Fair LendingSara Oros, Program Coordinator, Fair Housing/Fair Lending In collaboration with:Dr. Sterling Bone, Professor of Marketing, Utah State UniversityDr. Glenn Christensen, Associate Professor of Marketing, Brigham Young UniversityDr. Jerome Williams, Distinguished Professor and Prudential Chair in Business, Rutgers University Before COVID-19, tests revealed better […]

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COVID-19 and the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database

By / / Views / 8 minutes of reading

Local businesses are devastated and state agencies overwhelmed as people stay at home to preserve their health and apply for government assistance to maintain financial solvency. An unexpected side effect of this was a simultaneous increase in consumer complaints filed with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB).

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Are All Americans Equal?

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Most people are aware of the ongoing economic inequality suffered by the majority of Americans and disproportionately for African Americans. African Americans’ net wealth in the U.S. is 1/10 of that of their fellow White citizens. The COVID–19 virus, the current economic recession and national protests have made many of us think deeper about whether

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Same-Sex Couples and Mortgage Lending

By / / Research / 16 minutes of reading

Introduction The National Community Reinvestment Coalition has analyzed new data available to researchers for the first time to determine borrower patterns among same-sex couples, in comparison to different-sex couples. Our research question was, will same-sex couples pay higher closing costs and more interest on mortgage loans than different-sex couples? From our analysis of 2018 Home

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Study: Before COVID-19 and the protests, most of the nation was struggling, not booming

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COVID-19 exposed deep economic and social fault lines nationwide. It also underscored what was already going on before it: While a small number of cities were booming, most were not. In a new report on gentrification and disinvestment, covering data from 2012 through 2017, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) found that gentrification of once

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San Francisco most intensely gentrified city in new rankings

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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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Gentrification and Disinvestment 2020

By / / Research / 23 minutes of reading

Gentrification and Disinvestment 2020   COVID-19 struck a nation that was already mostly struggling. Do Opportunity Zones benefit or gentrify low-income neighborhoods?   Jason Richardson, Director, Research & Evaluation, NCRCBruce Mitchell, Ph.D., Senior Research Analyst, NCRCJad Edlebi, GIS Specialist, NCRC June 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COVID-19 exposed deep economic and social fault lines nationwide, with profound implications for

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Analysis of the OCC’s Final CRA Rule

By / / Testimony & Regulatory Comments / 42 minutes of reading

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released their Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) final rule on May 20. It will lessen the public accountability of banks to their communities by enacting performance measures on CRA exams that will be complex and opaque, while at the same time over-simplifying how to measure a bank’s

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