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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                       Contact: Jesse Van Tol (202) 464-2709 April 23, 2009                                                                                                       jvantol@ncrc.org Mortgage Reform Critical to Restoring Trust and Integrity to the Financial System Washington, DC –Today the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) will testify before the House Financial Services Committee on H.R. 1728, the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act […]

 Click here to read NCRC’s testimony  Click here to read the press release

Click here to read portions of Jim Carr’s speech at the University of Baltimore Law School that was featured in the Baltimore Sun.  His speech focuses on the foreclosure crisis and using NCRC’s HELP Now proposal to accomplish broad-scale modification of troubled loans.

  Watch NCRC members and a leading panel of experts, including Robert Kuttner, who helped draft the Community Reinvestment Act, discuss the state of the national economy and the need for comprehensive legislative measures to stem the foreclosure crisis, eliminate reckless and irresponsible lending practices, and restore trust and integrity to the financial system. Moderated

  Watch Jim Carr, NCRC chief operating officer, with moderator Mary Jo Walsh.    

Click here to read NCRC chief operating officer Jim Carr’s op-ed "An Equal Opportunity Recession?" — which earned top-placement on Reuters and has already sparked a healthy debate among its readers.  Respond to Jim’s op-ed by visiting reuters.com and/or posting to NCRC’s recently launched Reinvestment Works…the blog.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to Introduce the CRA Modernization Act of 2009 at NCRC conference “Roadmap to a Financially Inclusive Society”

Congressional action required to purge reckless and irresponsible lending practices from the marketplace