CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

of Community Development Fund Advisors, one of our pioneers of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to share a high-level overview of CRA Reform now that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its final rule.

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CRA Today

APRIL 10, 2024

link] In the past, regulations narrowly defined the provision of financial services. To qualify a community development service, it has to have a primary purpose of community development, be offered on behalf of the bank, and must be related to the provision of financial services.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Are you looking to take your community development services to the next level? Episode 44: Economic Development as a Key to Community Development Services. Episode 42: I Bet You Are Underreporting Your Community Development Loans… Most Banks Are Too! Episode 38: Haven’t Developed a CRA Plan Yet?

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In any case, most banks will have at least one more CRA examination before the new finalized regulations are implemented, and it’s important to put the bank ’ s best face forward. Maximize the Reporting of Community Development Activities; 2. Maximize the Reporting of Community Development Activities.

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This means you’ll likely go through at least one more CRA exam under the current regulations. Community development services, loans, investments, and maybe even deposits! Heck, you barely have the budget to track what’s necessary now, much less what you’ll have to do when the new CRA regulations take effect.

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CRA Today

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Are you one of the 95 percent of banks that are underreporting community development loans under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? SHOWNOTES: Community Development Loans Demystified with Krista Shonk, VP & Senior Counsel, Regulatory Compliance and Policy, Fair & Responsible Banking, ABA.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In recent years, the System has been subject to growing criticism that it has been inadequately supporting the housing and community development mission given to it by Congress. Part 1 of this two-part paper describes this more fully. This included nationwide listening sessions and other opportunities for public input.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 17, 2023

I wrote about it here: -- " Framework of characteristics that support successful community development in association with the development of professional sports facilities " (2021) in the process, updating my evaluative framework for siting and building arenas and stadiums. deal for Larry H.

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CRA Today

APRIL 8, 2024

How can we leverage programs and services provided by social service agencies, federal health clinics and community action agencies to meet the foundational needs of the most economically vulnerable? How can we partner with CDFIs to extend the traditional boundaries of capital where it is most needed?

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CRA Today

MARCH 30, 2022

You’ve been charged with meeting the credit needs of your community, which means tracking, managing, and reporting your bank’s community development data, not to mention finding and pursuing CD loans, services, and investments. Are you ready to master the art of identifying community development loans?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

From the article: The District is playing hardball in a dispute with the owner of Nationals Park, effectively threatening to shut down the stadium if Events DC fails to develop the commercial and retail space it promised before the ballpark’s 2008 opening. The Washington Post reports (" D.C. The Washington Post reports (" D.C.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The resulting report , which focused primarily on how these homes were purchased, illustrated the complexity involved in consumer awareness of options and understanding of the process, varying finance options, and the context of different rules and regulations at all levels of government.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio. As a result, many of these lots remain in municipal land banks for years.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

2 The report came about at a time when the FHLBs have been increasingly criticized for neglecting their housing and community development mission and instead using their subsidies and privileges to benefit their financial institution owners and executives. mortgage originations. .” mortgage originations.

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are some things to consider: Collaborate with different business units to ensure you’re meeting the credit needs of the community. Engage key internal bank stakeholders to maximize the bank’s community development services, loans, and investments. Who’s your regulator? Acknowledge where you are in the CRA exam cycle.

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CRA Today

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are some things to consider: Collaborate with different business units to ensure you’re meeting the credit needs of the community. . Engage key internal bank stakeholders to maximize the bank’s community development services, loans, and investments. Who’s your regulator? Where are you in the exam cycle?

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Bang the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You can then develop strategies to leverage those opportunities to maximize positive outcomes of the project while simultaneously mitigating risk. Using a participatory social research approach often employed in development contexts, SIA can identify deeper, richer information about the community than a traditional stakeholder analysis.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

160A-492 authorizes a county to appropriate funds for “human relations, community action, and manpower development programs.” 160D-1311(a)(2) is more specifically limited in scope to programs related to housing and community development that serve persons of low and moderate income. Additionally, G.S. Note that G.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

But as concerns about gentrification and displacement in urban areas have become more widespread, supply skepticism has expanded from the traditional anti-development constituencies to renters and social advocates fighting for equitable neighborhood planning. “We need all hands on deck producing all housing.”

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The issue is addressed in two notices published by HUD on June 20, 2019, related to duplication of benefits for Community Development Block Grants – Disaster Recovery ( CDBG-DR ): 84 FR 28836 (June 2019 Duplication of Benefits Notice, referred to herein as the “ DOB Notice ”) and 84 FR 28848 (June 2019 Duplication of Benefits Implementation Notice).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

While restrictive zoning is not the only reason housing costs are high in the United States, it does play a major role in limiting housing development, especially in parts of the country with high paying jobs in fast-growing industries. It also loosened environmental review requirements for local planning departments. .

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