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for September 5, 2025

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NCRC To Host Just Economy Leadership Summit In Nashville

By NCRC

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) will host the 2025 Just Economy Leadership Summit September 8-9 in Nashville, TN, bringing 150 top community advocacy leaders from across the country together for two days of intense, solutions-focused discussions. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

NCRC Statement On Illegal Effort To Fire Lisa Cook

By NCRC

Let’s be clear: This is not about Dr. Cook, not really. President Trump is desperate to expand his own personal power past all lines drawn up in our laws and founding documents, especially where trained professionals attempting to exercise sound policy judgment come to decisions that displease him. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Research

An Inflection Point Has Been Reached: August 2025 Race, Jobs And The Economy Update

By Joseph Dean

The most shocking finding from the report was the massive downward revision of May and June’s job gains, from 144,000 and 147,000 to a measly 19,000 and 14,000, respectively. These revisions prompted the President to accuse the BLS commissioner of altering the numbers before firing her unceremoniously this month. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Nashville’s Unified Housing Strategy: Addressing Housing Accessibility In America’s Most Gentrified City

By Jason Richardson, Joseph Dean, and Greg Wilson

This follow-up analysis examines mortgage lending patterns in the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN Core-Based Statistical Area (the Nashville CBSA) from 2018 through 2024 to zero in on what local patterns may underlie Nashville’s unenviable ranking atop the gentrification list and how local actors might tailor the new initiative to mitigate that pattern. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Views

Power In Numbers: How Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Fights Against Discriminatory Housing Practices

By Robert Davis

Housing advocates at the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council (MMFHC) have created an impactful toolkit for vulnerable communities that continue to be impacted by the legacy of redlining. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

New York’s Center For Regional Strategies’ Program Model For Creating Community Wealth

By Kaitlyn Ridel

The Center for Regional Strategies (CRS) is fostering sustainable wealth for residents in western New York by creating innovative economic growth models that increase household income and attract opportunities to the region. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Events

2025 Utah Housing Matters Conference

September 8-10, 8 am 5 pm EDT

Join NCRC Principal Researcher Bruce C. Mitchell, PhD, at the highly anticipated Housing Matters Conference, taking place September 8–10, 2025, at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, Utah. This premier event brings together affordable housing professionals, government leaders, and industry experts for three days of learning, collaboration, and innovation. [Register here] ([link removed] )

Becoming A HUD-Approved Housing Counseling Agency

September 9-10, 8 am - 5 pm ET

Are you considering becoming a HUD-Approved Housing Counseling Agency? This training will explore what is the commitment involved with being a HUD-approved agency, answer questions about the eligibility criteria and more, providing participants with an inside view of essential steps and criteria for obtaining HUD approval. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]

In The News

It Was Supposed To Connect Segregated Neighborhoods. Did It Gentrify Them Instead?

By Jane Margolies, The New York Times

Near the Eastside Trail, the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, the birthplace of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had a median home value of $1.7 million in 2020, a nearly fivefold jump from $345,000 in 2010, according to a mapping application created in conjunction with a recent report on gentrification and Black displacement by the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The neighborhood’s residents flipped from majority Black to majority white during that period. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Ripple Unlocks A Billion XRP In Bold Move As Price Stays Steady

By Olumide Adesina, Nairametrics

Ripple faces obstacles, though the charter could enhance Ripple’s credibility. According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), a trust bank charter would let Ripple offer deposit-like services without the protections of traditional banks. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Tracing The Rise And Fall Of New Orleans Working Class

By Jon Jeter, Popular Resistance

Faced with an opportunity to reinvent itself after Hurricane Katrina, the city instead doubled down, using the displacement of African Americans from the impoverished 9th ward especially as an accelerant to speed up the pace of gentrification in the city. In a 2020 study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, New Orleans ranked 5th among the United States’ 20 most gentrified cities, privatizing, as one example, its entire public school system to become home to the nation’s first all-charter school system. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

On Our Radar

Court Hands A Loss To Groups Seeking Billions In Frozen Climate Funds

By Claire Brown, The New York Times

An appeals court on Tuesday ruled against several nonprofit groups that had $16 billion in climate grants frozen this year by the Trump administration. In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that it did not have jurisdiction in the case and that the Trump administration acted legally in its attempts to claw back the funds, dashing the environmental groups’ hopes of immediately accessing money they were awarded more than a year ago. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Starter Homes Are Scarce, So Utah Set A Target To Build More. Here's How It's Going

By Jennifer Ludden and Marisa Peñaloza, NPR

Median U.S. home prices are at a record high, up nearly 50% over the past five years. In Utah, they're even more than the national average, over half a million dollars. The underlying driver is a massive shortage of homes. Add to that high inflation and interest rates, and mortgages are out of reach for many. The median age of U.S. homebuyers has hit a record high of 38, up from 31 a decade before. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

Trump Considering Declaring A National Housing Emergency

By Kayla Carmicheal, BisNow

The federal government is exploring ways to alleviate housing costs and increase supply, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told The Washington Examiner Monday. He didn’t outline a specific action plan beyond the emergency declaration, but he said the Trump administration is exploring the standardization of local zoning and building codes. He also said the president is looking into ways to reduce closing costs and is considering issuing tariff exemptions for construction items. [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. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]

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Research And Reports

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

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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