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United States United Kingdom Australia 0? Create Free Account. What are you looking for? JavaScript Required You are reading this message because your browser either does not support JavaScript or has it disabled. The proposed changes ould have a big impact here, especially on low- and moderate-income people.
Would you be interested in writing about this issue and why it matters to our community? Here you write an opinion piece and then shop it around to local papers and magazines. Most outlets have their own requirements, so be sure to check with them before you write and pitch your piece. We suggest you start your OpEd off with local impacts. What has CRA done for your community in the past? How will the proposed changes halt these investments? And then you can use some of our talking points below to further bring home the point that these proposed changes are disastrous for our underserved communities.
All parties invested in the Community Reinvestment Act CRA — bankers, regulators, community leaders and watchdog groups — have agreed for some time that CRA was in need of modernization to reflect changes in how people access banking services today opposed to in when the act was first enacted.
However, there is no doubt that the proposed changes from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC would greatly diminish the effectiveness of the law and does a terrible job of addressing our mutual concerns. Instead, the agencies came up with ways for banks to do less for lower-income neighborhoods and borrowers, and a host of complex and confusing options. This is exactly what the rules proposed in December would do.
It would even make it easier for banks to cherry-pick where they do business by reducing the importance of assessment areas. Banks would be able to invest outside of their assessment areas before they have met the needs within their assessment areas and still receive full credit on their CRA exams. Add in the fact that large infrastructure projects like bridges and sports stadiums in Opportunity Zones are worthy of CRA credit, and it is clear that these proposed changes do nothing short but encourage banks to reduce their lending to lower-income borrowers in lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhood-based nonprofit organizations, small business and home mortgages.
Because what would you do if you had the choice between a high-dollar, high-return project or a bunch of small, low-return investments? Banks are literally being told by the federal regulators to turn their backs on potentially millions of people whose deposits are the foundation of the banking business.
A clear descent against the intent of the law. The definition of affordable housing would be expanded in a manner that will not ensure bank activities are actually going to LMI people. There is a reason the Federal Reserve did not sign on to this proposal. There is no doubt that these changes would diminish the effectiveness of a law that was desperately needed when it was enacted and which remains essential to ensure banks meet the credit needs of all communities where they take deposits, not just the wealthy ones.
The regulators violate cardinal principles of rulemaking in terms of both fulfilling their statutory responsibilities under CRA and not proposing a rule based on clear and transparent data analysis. Bank merger calls for community benefits agreement. Your View: Law promotes homeownership in poorer Lehigh Valley neighborhoods. Why weaken it? Regulators need to start over. Before the pandemic devastated minority communities, banks and government officials starved them of capital.
Lower-income and minority neighborhoods that were intentionally cut off from lending and investment decades ago today suffer not only from reduced wealth and greater poverty, but from lower life expectancy and higher prevalence of chronic diseases that are risk factors for poor outcomes from COVID, a new study shows. Take Action. It's our money. Keep it in our neighborhoods. We need a strong Community Reinvestment Act.
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Here are some things you can use. Key messages. Strengthening CRA is a critical component of a just recovery. The Federal Reserve proposal must be strengthened to prevent grade inflation. The Federal Reserve proposal should be strengthened to increase lending to people of color. Assessment areas must support and reflect a commitment to local lending, investments and services.
The Fed ANPR provides an opportunity for the three banking agencies to come together to formulate a joint rule-making. CRA will be essential for their economic recovery. COVID will drive neighborhoods deeper into poverty.
Any new rules should help lower-income communities and communities of color recover from COVID, and not make things worse for them. CRA modernization must maintain its focus on lower-income communities and communities of color CRA reform must include the collection of improved community development and deposit data The hardest hit communities will be most in need of reinvestment after COVID Search Search Submit Button Submit.
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