The current scale of mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures - particularly in the subprime market - has sparked a renewed debate over the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the regulations governing home mortgage lending. On one side, detractors argue that the CRA helped to precipitate the...

Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are designed to improve economic conditions for low-income individuals and communities by providing a range of financial products and services that often are not available from mainstream lenders and financiers. ; Part I of this paper reviews...

Remarks to the National Community Reinvestment Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 20. 2006

Speech to the Greenlining Institute’s 14th Annual Economic Development Summit, Los Angeles, California, April 19, 2007

Speech to the Central Valley Banking Forum, Fresno, California, November 14, 2006>

Presentation to the Community Reinvestment Conference, Hollywood, CA, March 29, 2004

Keynote speech to Recovery, Renewal, Rebuilding – a Federal Reserve Conference Series, Los Angeles, CA, July 15, 2008

Bugg-Levine states that changing needs and changing funding sources require that community development reinvent itself. Impact investing can be a major new funding source, but community development risks being left behind unless it can meet the needs of impact investors for diversified...

Duncan’s focus is on rural community development, which she says must be seen more broadly as economic development. Rural poverty is different in different places—Duncan notes the persistent poverty of Appalachia and parts of the South, the new poverty of depopulation on the Great Plains,...

Blackwell starts by saying that, given both the wide and increasing disparity in economic and social opportunity and results between whites and African Americans and Latinos, and the increasing share of the population represented by people of color, equity has become “more than a moral issue....