New Lawsuit Challenges Russell Vought’s Attempt to Starve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of Funding
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Rise Economy and the Woodstock Institute are suing the Trump administration to protect the CFPB.
2026 Just Economy Conference Featured Speaker: Heather McGhee
NCRC is thrilled to announce that Heather McGhee will be a featured speaker at the 2026 Just Economy Conference!
NCRC Comment in Opposition to Crypto.com’s National Trust Charter Application
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NCRC Announces Launch of the Just Economy Lab
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) is proud to announce the launch of its new Just Economy Labs, a two-year initiative to build impactful solutions for housing, small business and workforce development programs.
Funding Futures: Scale Link’s New Secondary Market for CDFI Loans is Strengthening Underserved Small Businesses
Locally-owned small businesses are almost universally admired. Yet, in a banking industry where bigger is seen as better, warm words rarely translate into hard cash. Small businesses have become a viable pathway towards economic mobility for entrepreneurs and the cornerstone of community development revitalization efforts in historically underinvested communities. However, minority-owned businesses have had to
Data Centers Won’t Stop The Labor Market Slowdown: November 2025 Race, Jobs and Economy Update
November is the second month that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has failed to produce a jobs report due to the recent government shutdown. What we do know about the economy comes from private sources, and they paint a mixed to negative picture. Revelio Labs found that the labor market lost 9,000 jobs last month
Building Stronger State SNAP E&T Networks: Lessons from NCRC’s Tennessee Convening
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits provide vital assistance to millions of people every year who struggle with food insecurity. The SNAP Employment and Training program (SNAP E&T) is the workforce development component of SNAP, which funds education, job training and wraparound services for people receiving SNAP benefits. SNAP E&T is a complicated program, often
East LA Community Corporation Builds Opportunity Through Housing and Advocacy
Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) was formed by activists dedicated to serving their Boyle Heights and East LA communities. The nonprofit has funneled over $250 million into housing and other community development resources to strengthen low-income neighborhoods. Through its affordable housing portfolio, asset and wealth-building programs, homeownership counseling
Woodstock Institute Uses Data to Advocate for Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Across Illinois
Nestled in the heart of downtown Chicago, the Woodstock Institute has been working to advance economic justice and racial equity within financial systems at the local, state and national levels for over 50 years. The organization was founded in 1973 by Chicago philanthropists Sylvia and Aaron Scheinfeld as the program arm of the couple’s foundation
Video: Better Together: Community Voices, Hospitals And Banks Advancing Housing & Health
Online Event Archive Recorded: November ?, 2025 The Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates opportunities for community groups and community-based organizations to engage hospitals and health systems in addressing the interconnected issues of housing, health, and community development. A hospital’s Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) guides part of its community benefit activities, much like a bank’s
NCRC Comment in Opposition to Stripe Inc’s National Trust Charter Application
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Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition fights for cleaner air and health equity in the city’s most marginalized communities
Although Sacramento, California is currently ranked as one of the country’s most polluted cities, a coalition of advocates and grassroots leaders is determined to change that. Due to Sacramento’s location in a mountain-locked valley, the pollutants produced from the city’s high amounts of traffic and industries become trapped, consistently earning it a top spot on
“You can’t out-budget poverty”: MakingChange, Inc. helps people overcome financial instability in affluent Maryland
Experiencing poverty in an affluent community like Howard County, Maryland can seem like a strange oxymoron due to the area’s high median income and low poverty rates. In 2022, the area was ranked as the sixth-richest in the nation with a median income of over $124,000 and one of the lowest poverty rates in the
Video: Post-Summit Debrief
Online Event Archive Recorded: November 6, 2025 In September, NCRC convened more than 160 community leaders, financial institutions, and policy experts in Nashville for a bold new kind of summit, one focused not on more panels, but on structured, action-oriented dialogue. We heard from national thought leaders about the “new normal” facing communities: shrinking federal support,
NCRC Statement: Weakening the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) Breaks America’s Promises and Harms Its People
A new proposal from the Trump administration weakening the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) is an outright assault on civil rights in lending.
Rebuilding Generational Wealth: How Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Creates Pathways to Black Homeownership
As one of the largest Black-led affordable housing nonprofits in the state of Oregon, Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives (PCRI) continues to expand pathways to homeownership for Black communities systemically disenfranchised by discriminatory housing practices. Founded in 1992 after taking over properties from a discriminatory mortgage company, PCRI’s holdings have grown to over 700 properties, including
NCRC Opposes Sony’s Stablecoin Bank Application
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A strong and stable force: How Ceiba created a lasting community and economic development ecosystem for Latine families in Philadelphia
Ceiba, a coalition of Latine community organizations in Philadelphia, is named after the ceiba trees that grow in the Caribbean. These trees, known for their hardiness and far-reaching foliage, are complete ecosystems that provide shade and meet the needs of humans, animals and plants alike. The Ceiba coalition reflects its namesake by acting as a
Video: Upzoning, Development and Displacement: A Denver Case Study
Online Event Archive Recorded: November 5, 2025 By mapping which census tracts low-income residents are leaving and where they’re resettling, Jennifer Newcomer has created a unique dataset that NDC uses to advocate for land use changes and community benefits agreements to take a regional approach to affordable housing. This unique model is replicable across communities
Mortgage Market Report Series – Part 5: Top 50 Home Purchase Lenders Analysis for 2024
2025 NCRC Mortgage Market Series PART 5: Top 50 Home Purchase Lenders Analysis for 2024 What the top 50 lenders tell us about the limits of regulation and the future of fair housing PART 5: Top 50 Home Purchase Lenders Analysis for 2024 What the top 50 lenders tell us about the limits of regulation
NCRC Comment in Opposition to Coinbase National Trust Charter Application
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NCRC Urges the OMB and Treasury to Reinstate Full Staff at the CDFI Fund
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Early Success Stories From NCRC’s 2024 FEF Grantees
As economic uncertainty deepens due to workforce reductions, shrinking federal budgets and mounting local challenges, community-based organizations are responding with creativity and determination. In collaboration with its member network, NCRC continues to maximize existing grant resources to empower these organizations to make a meaningful difference in low-income communities nationwide. Last November, the National Community Reinvestment
NCRC Comments on FHFA’s Proposed Affordable Housing Goals 2026-2028
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Is the Labor Market Stalling or Re-calibrating? October 2025 Race, Jobs and the Economy Update
With the federal government shutdown that began on October 1st ongoing, economic data releases from a plethora of federal agencies have ground to a halt. This also includes the jobs report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the lack of official government data, several private sources that collect labor market data have produced