Community Development Innovation Review
February 2009
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A Framework for Revisiting the CRA
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 was enacted to address the concern that depository institutions had not met the credit needs of their entire communities. In many ways, the act can be credited with changing the way that banks do business in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities. While the statute itself and the regulations that implement it have changed over the intervening decades, a re-examination of the CRA now seems particularly relevant as the financial crisis and the legislative and regulatory responses to it unfold.
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Other articles in this issue
Expanding the CRA to All Financial Institutions
A Banker’s Quick Reference Guide to CRA
The Community Reinvestment Act: Good Goals, Flawed Concept
A Principle-Based Redesign of HMDA and CRA Data
Community Reinvestment Emerging from the Housing Crisis
Putting Race Explicitly into the CRA
The CRA as a Means to Provide Public Goods
The Community Reinvestment Act: 30 Years of Wealth Building and What We Must Do to Finish the Job
What Lessons Does the CRA Offer the Insurance Industry?
The Community Reinvestment Act and the Recent Mortgage Crisis
CRA Lending During the Subprime Meltdown
A More Modern CRA for Consumers
The Community Reinvestment Act: Past Successes and Future Opportunities
A Tradable Obligation Approach to the Community Reinvestment Act
The Community Reinvestment Act at 30 Years
It’s the Rating, Stupid: A Banker’s Perspective on the CRA
The Community Reinvestment Act: Outstanding, and Needs to Improve
The CRA within a Changing Financial Landscape
The 30th Anniversary of the CRA: Restructuring the CRA to Address the Mortgage Finance Revolution