{"id":291210,"date":"2026-08-04T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrc.org\/?p=291210"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:56:13","slug":"regulators-move-to-narrow-cra-drawing-fire-from-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrc.org\/regulators-move-to-narrow-cra-drawing-fire-from-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulators move to narrow CRA, drawing fire from advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July 31, 2026, HousingWire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/cra-proposal-asset-thresholds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regulators Move To Narrow CRA, Drawing Fire From Advocates<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/nonprofit-fair-lending-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jesse Van Tol<\/a>, president and CEO of the <strong>National Community Reinvestment Coalition<\/strong> (NCRC), said the proposal \u201cweakens banks\u2019 obligations to invest in working-class communities and threatens to undermine the affordable housing gains in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/21st-century-road-to-housing-act-becomes-law-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">21st Century Road to Housing Act<\/a> entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBanks will face weaker exams, get credit for projects with little connection to low- and moderate-income communities and gain more control over where and how they are evaluated,\u201d Van Tol said in a statement. \u201cCRA is supposed to put a thumb on the scale for working-class people; now it lets hundreds of banks off the hook, and dramatically reduces the obligation for others.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31, 2026, HousingWire, Regulators Move To Narrow CRA, Drawing Fire From Advocates Jesse Van Tol, president 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