FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM COMMUNITY AFFAIRS RESEARCH CONFERENCE "Financing Community Development: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future"

TOPICS: - Challenges to and opportunities for improving the effectiveness of community development efforts - Effective government policy for promoting community development in the new financial services environment - Regulation of consumer finance - The impact and effectiveness of the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) - Methods for assessing the efficacy of the CRA and other community development efforts - Innovations in financial products, services, delivery of services, and marketing of services to underserved communities - Consumer access to mortgage and other credit - Business access to credit and capital - Studies that use new proprietary databases or the most recent Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), or the Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF)