In honor of our 50th anniversary, we invited longtime community reinvestment leader Ted Wysocki to share some thoughts on the theme of looking back to think about the future. As Ted notes, his career in the community reinvestment field dates back to working with Gale Cincotta...
On February 23, Janice Guzon and Horacio Mendez led a presentation highlighting the new capacities of our online data portal.
Woodstock Institute signed on to a letter led by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) supporting the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) harmful 2020 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule. NCRC, Woodstock, and other advocates support an...
Woodstock signed on to a letter led by the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights to support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2021 (S. 1368). The bill would, among other things, modernize...
Woodstock Institute submitted a comment letter to respond to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).
On January 13, the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation creating an Illinois Community Reinvestment Act (IL CRA) to help ensure that state regulated financial institutions better meet the needs of low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, including areas where there is...
Several consumer advocacy groups are opposing Oportun Financial’s application for a national bank charter, citing concerns about the company’s lending and debt-collection practices.
Federal Banking Regulators Proposed Changes to the Community Reinvestment Act. Here’s what’s at stake.
Community Reinvestment Act- OCC Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking- Woodstock Comment November 19, 2018
The famous lyrics from Hamilton: An American Musical, “the world turned upside down,” are an apt description of what is happening in the financial justice field these days. Here’s what we’re concerned about at the federal level: The Department...