There are less than two weeks to submit comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)!! Comments are due Friday, August 5, at 11:59 pm ET.

NCRC drafted three sample comment letters, including one for health care practitioners, that can be found on our #TreasureCRA page. Some of the comments have been flagged as form letters. These will still count, but we advise you to take our sample comment letters and add a few sentences or paragraphs, so your letters are unique and count more. 

I want to thank these members and allies for sending in comments (if I missed you, let me know...not all comments have been posted yet by the agencies): 

• St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance (SLEHCRA)
• Come Dream. Come Build (CDCB)
• Veteran's Center of Greater Atlanta 
• Healthy Communities Delaware 
• Oasis Center 
• Brooklyn Neighborhood Association 
• Tule River Economic Development Corporations 

Organizations working on comment letters include (and a number of these are coalitions): 

• Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council 
• Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund 
• The Greenlining Institute 
• Public Citizen 
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) 
• Child Care Aware of America 
• Prosperity Now! 
• Woodstock Institute 
• California Reinvestment Coalition 
• Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development 
• California Housing Partnership 
• UnidosUS 
• Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG) 
• Housing Assistance Council  
• Opportunity Finance Now 
• Coastal Enterprises Inc.  
• NACEDA 
• National NeighborWorks Association 
• Georgia ACT and SCACED 
• Poverty and Race Research Action Council 
• National People’s Action 
• Chicago Community Loan Fund 

So far the "pro" comments outweigh the "con" comments, but we have to keep our comments flowing! The best chance we have to make this a strong change is if community groups put up a good showing and send in comment letters! 

Happy commenting!

Josh Silver