Video: Gentrification Nation: Displaced By Design

Online Event Archive Recorded: June 5, 2025 Over the past five decades, gentrification has fundamentally reshaped America’s urban neighborhoods, creating complex dynamics of revitalization and displacement. Our recently released comprehensive analysis, Displaced By Design, reveals that gentrification, once confined to small parts of some cities, is on the rise across many housing markets. The human cost

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Business Ownership and Its Role in Maintaining the Racial Wealth Gap

The racial wealth gap remains one of the biggest economic inequity problems facing the United States today. With its origins in chattel enslavement of Black Americans, the gap remains a stark reminder of the societal costs of these insidious practices. Long after abolition, neighborhood redlining and instances of racial terror, such as the 1921 Tulsa

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Video: Just Economy Conversations: Valuing Homes in Black Communities Through Restorative Opportunities

Online Event Archive Recorded: June 3, 2025 Spotlight Innovators from the Valuing Homes in Black Communities Challenge, hosted by Economic Architecture and the Brookings Institution, shared new innovations and strategies in the housing equity space. Hear from Ashon Nesbitt from the Florida Housing Coalition, Cat Goughnour from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development,

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Reclaiming Tribal Lands Through Innovative Economic Development Efforts

The lack of affordable housing and other structural barriers to homeownership are a nationwide problem. Yet, for Native communities living on tribal lands, those dynamics become an even more complicated challenge to overcome. They are often overlooked by traditional state, local, regional and federal housing assistance programs and minimized as constituents given their unique sovereign

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Video: Just Economy Conversations: New Frontiers in Financing Homes

Online Event Archive Recorded: May 6, 2025 Innovation, technology, and shared equity are reshaping access to homeownership and creating new pathways for building wealth. With $44 trillion of U.S. wealth tied up in housing, a new generation of tools and approaches—spanning blockchain, shared equity models, and impact-driven capital—offer alternatives to traditional ownership structures. Our panelists

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NCRC and 100+ CDFIs Demand $324 Million in Appropriations for the CDFI Fund

Complete the form to download the pdf: Yes, send me updates by email about NCRC research, events and news. Download Now Complete the form to download the pdf: Download May 27, 2025 The Honorable Bill HagertyChairAppropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services & General GovernmentUS Senate251 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 The Honorable David JoyceChairAppropriations Subcommittee

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Video: Open Banking 2.0: Leveraging Data to Empower Underserved Populations

Online Event Archive Recorded: May 20, 2025 We examine how the latest advancements in open banking can be harnessed to address the needs of underserved populations. Panelists delve into practical strategies for leveraging financial data to improve access to financial services, enhance financial literacy, and promote equitable economic opportunities. Gain tips for navigating regulatory challenges

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United South Broadway Corporation: A Holistic Model of Community Development

NCRC member organization United South Broadway Corporation (USBC) is a shining example of what it looks like when an organization tackles a problem holistically. The community development corporation was created to help low-income community members purchase homes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Since then, it has grown statewide, establishing community programs that have changed the outcomes

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“Opportunity Zones” for Whom? Lack of Equitable Development Outcomes Highlights Need for Reforms to Key Program

In most American communities, one will see sleek, newly constructed luxury apartments, a variety of trendy eateries, carefully manicured shrubbery and the new well-to-do residents seemingly without a care in the world on one block. Then, one will see the bleak, dilapidated buildings, gaudy fast-food restaurants, tree-barren landscapes and the established residents that are struggling

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Call for 2026 Just Economy Conference Session Ideas

Add your voice and expertise to the 2026 Just Economy Conference. The conference takes place April 13-14 in Washington, DC, and will be followed by NCRC’s member-only Hill Day on April 15.  This is the national event for community, business, foundation, policy and government leaders who want a nation that not only promises but delivers

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NCRC Announces Housing Counseling Network Open Enrollment Period

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) opened the enrollment period for its Housing Counseling Network (HCN) today.  Established in 2008, HCN provides operational oversight and technical assistance for US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved housing counseling agencies. HCN offers its agency members the opportunity for industry networking and shared learning opportunities. NCRC

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NCRC Announces Extension For Housing Counseling Services Grant Applications

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) announced today it is extending the application period for its new Housing Counseling Services (HCS) grant program to May 30, 2025, for new select geographies. The HCS program, a part of the well-established, multi-year Field Empowerment Fund (FEF), was launched in February through a partnership with KeyBank. The current

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