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for November 15, 2024

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Announcements

Don't Forget To Vote For Your Favorite 2025 Just Economy Conference Sessions!

By NCRC

Voting ends today! What would YOU like to see at the 2025 Just Economy Conference? Please vote ([link removed] ) and encourage your colleagues to do the same! The final program will include sessions that receive the most votes. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

News

NCRC Receives $1.3 Million USDA Grant For SNAP Workforce Development Programs

By NCRC

The grant expands NCRC’s capacity to provide technical assistance and promote best practices through conferences and meetings, peer-to-peer learning networks, toolkits, checklists and curricula and professional development opportunities for member organizations. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

NCRC Hires Roxana Smith as NCRC CDF Director of Relationship Development

By NCRC

Meet Roxana “Roxy” Smith, new Director of Relationship Development at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Community Development Fund (NCRC CDF). Roxy will be instrumental in efforts to drive economic mobility and provide access to capital for underserved communities. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

2025 Just Economy Conference: Registration Now Open

By NCRC

Registration for the 2025 Just Economy Conference is now open! Don’t miss your chance to join activists, elected officials, policymakers, community leaders, civil rights groups, faith-based organizations and economic and social justice advocates from across the nation. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Research

The Racial Wealth Gap 1992 to 2022

By Joseph Dean

Black households are increasingly dependent on homeownership as a wealth-building strategy. Yet homeownership is out of reach for most low- and moderate-income (LMI) families. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Events

Utah Strategies To Address Homelessness & Housing

November 19, 9 - 1a pm ET

Over the past 5 years, Utah has been making changes in the way they address housing & homelessness. The Governor, Legislature, state and local governments, and industry members have been working together to tackle the problems more efficiently. Please join the Governor’s Office of Budget and Planning to learn about the progress and future steps. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]

Remaking the Economy: Liberating Finance to Build a More Just World

November 20, 2 - 3:30 pm ET

What does the term “just transition” mean? How can finance truly be liberated from traditional business assumptions and instead be mobilized to support a just transition to an economy rooted in values of solidarity? Those questions were at the heart of an economic justice article series coproduced this summer by Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) and Justice Funders. To address those questions, drawing on the contributions from many of the authors in that series, this 90-minute webinar will offer a conversation on the joys and challenges, dos and don’ts, of putting liberatory finance and investment into action in the real world. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]

In The News

What Is A Realist?

By Linda Bell, Nerd Wallet

The Black/White American homeownership gap has ranged from 20% to 30% since 1900, according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization focused on ending housing discrimination and other inequities in the consumer financial system. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

When A Bank Fails After Engaging In Redlining, Who's Responsible?

By Kevin Wack, American Banker

Jesse Van Tol, president and CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, argued that Fulton has a responsibility to address the wrongs of its predecessor bank. "I think they should have a stronger approach than just, 'We're a better bank, nothing to worry about,' which is essentially what they're saying," Van Tol said.[Read more ([link removed] ) ]

On Our Radar

Why ‘Affordable Housing’ in New York City Can Still Cost $3,500 a Month

By Mihir Zaveri, New York Times

For more and more people in New York City, the rent is so high that there is hardly any money left for food, child care and transportation, much less anything fun. Want to move to a cheaper apartment? Good luck finding one. New York City does not have enough housing for everyone who wants to live here, and what it does have is increasingly unaffordable for the average person. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

US Banks To Gain From Looser Capital, Merger Policies Under Trump

By Niket Nishant, Manya Saini and Nupur Anand, Reuters

First unveiled months after the collapse of three regional lenders last year, the Basel proposal faced intense pushback and an unprecedented lobbying campaign from big banks, which argued the rules would erode their competitive edge. The Federal Reserve agreed to water down the proposal in September, when Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said the regulator would overhaul and re-issue the rules later. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Resources

Work And Meet At The Just Economy Club

It's a DC hub for nonprofits and the social sector, around the corner from the White House. Move your team into a private office or host your meetings and events or hang out in the lounge. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Learning & Training Hub

Register for NCRC's catalog of professional development courses for community development leaders. [Learn ([link removed] ) more ([link removed] ) ]

Research And Reports

We have an extensive library of research and reports that dates back many years! [View all ([link removed] ) ]

Racial Wealth Snapshots

Browse our catalog of socioeconomic briefs. [View all ([link removed] ) ]

Sign And Share The Just Economy Pledge

America should not only promise but deliver to all Americans opportunities to build wealth and live well. Sign and share the pledge to help us expand the movement for a Just Economy. [Sign and Share ([link removed] ) ]

Member Hub

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Fair Lending Tool

Use our interactive tool to produce a report on mortgages, small business lending and bank branch networks for any city, county or metro area in the nation. [Access the tool here ([link removed] ) ]

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