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Advocacy for social change: Coalitions and the organizations that lead them

By Josh Silver / June 1, 2018 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

Herbert J. Rubin’s new book, Advocacy for Social Change, is an important primer for those who seek to promote social change through national organizations. Many books discuss the corrosive effect of money in politics and lobbying organizations, but few are devoted to how those representing the have-nots organize on a national level to fight for laws […]

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White place. Wrong type.

By Stella Adams / May 17, 2018 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

History matters and memorials are important. But the National Memorial for Peace and Justice is an unfinished story.

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2017 HMDA Overview: Non-banks dominated home lending

By Jason Richardson / May 8, 2018 / Research, Views / 4 minutes of reading

Quicken Loans overtakes Wells Fargo as the largest loan originator.

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Fifty years after the death of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

By Jenn Jones / April 4, 2018 / Views / 1 minute of reading

Today, and every day, we honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s courage and vision by standing unafraid and fully committed to a more racially and economically just America.

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How 1930s discrimination shaped inequality in today’s cities

By Jesse Meisenhelter, NCRC / March 27, 2018 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

The study shows how policies and practices that influence access to capital and credit can have a lasting impact on housing patterns, the economic health of neighborhoods and who accumulates wealth.

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Data Drives the Movement for Economic Justice, and Bank Deposits

By Josh Silver / March 26, 2018 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

In its classically quiet fashion, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a significant study, asking the Treasury Department to improve data on CRA exams.

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Why is there bipartisan support in the Senate to cover up evidence of discrimination in banking?

By John Taylor and Marc H. Morial / February 27, 2018 / Views / 4 minutes of reading

Congress should be asking how to expand reporting requirements for all lenders, not end them. We need bipartisan support to end discrimination in lending, not to hide the data that exposes it.

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The big red herring: the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) will help predators identify you!

By Josh Silver / February 21, 2018 / Views / 5 minutes of reading

HMDA is the key to preventing predatory behavior, not the cause of it, so how can an economics professor from George Washington University claim that HMDA can facilitate large-scale identity theft?

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How many cuts does it take to kill the middle class?

By John Taylor / February 20, 2018 / Views / 2 minutes of reading

The president’s 2019 budget proposal presents a profoundly troubling vision for our nation’s working class.

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Housing policy didn’t cause the 2007 crash

By John Taylor / January 31, 2018 / Views / 2 minutes of reading

The affordable-housing mandates at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not the primary cause of the 2007-09 recession.

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Integration as a means of combating inequality

By Josh Silver / January 19, 2018 / Views / 7 minutes of reading

Inequality is increasing social tensions and slowing economic growth. According to Josh Silver, there is a way to fight it.

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Honoring MLK: The unfinished business of our movement

By John Taylor / January 12, 2018 / Views / 2 minutes of reading

This year we celebrate half a century of progress toward Dr. King’s work for racial and economic justice. But we do so in a country that remains divided, the nation of Charlottesville and #MeToo.

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My response to the racist-in-chief’s contemptible language toward my African and Haitian brothers and sisters

By Stella Adams / January 12, 2018 / Views / 2 minutes of reading

We must stand boldly against hate, and we must speak truth to power.

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Preserving the GSEs is key to preserving affordability

By John Taylor / December 15, 2017 / Views, Policy / 1 minute of reading

Nearly nine years after the U.S. government seized both of them at the height of the Great Recession, Fannie and Freddie remain under the control of the federal government. The good news is they’re profitable again. The bad news is they no longer play a significant role helping the working class obtain affordable home loans.

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Does mortgage data reveal gentrification in California?

By Jesse Meisenhelter / December 12, 2017 / Views, Press Releases, Research / 3 minutes of reading

A new report, produced in collaboration with NCRC, examined mortgages in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in California. Many went to wealthy borrowers.

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