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Testimony of Horacio Mendez at 2022 City Council Finance Committee Lending Equity Ordinance hearing on municipal depositories

CEO Horacio Mendez joined Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago President Anthony Simpkins in presenting analysis of lending in communities by banks seeking to hold city deposits.

December 10, 2022 at 6:26 pm read more

Comment Letter: Illinois CRA Coalition Comment on Illinois CRA Rulemaking

Woodstock Institute co-leads the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act Coalition with Housing Action Illinois. The coalition submitted a letter with 32 organizations signed on to comment on the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation’s (IDFPR) Advance Notice of Proposed...

December 29, 2021 at 4:42 pm read more
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Testimony of Horacio Mendez at Illinois Community Reinvestment Act rulemaking hearing

Illinois has a historic opportunity to ensure state banks, state credit unions, and mortgage companies invest mortgage capital equitably. The ability for the State of IL to hold all lenders accountable for the impact they have on the residents...

October 18, 2021 at 10:08 am read more

Comment Letter: Urging HUD, VA, and USDA to Extend Deadline to Start COVID-19 Forbearance Plans

Woodstock Institute signed on to a letter led by the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) requesting that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Department of Agriculture...

September 24, 2021 at 11:05 am read more
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Editorial: An urgent task for City Hall. Tackle the lending gap that holds back the South, West sides.

A city neighborhood isn’t merely a hodgepodge of housing and businesses. It’s an amalgam of anchoring entities that keep it alive and thriving, that gives it a defining sense of community. Those anchors include schools, of course. Churches. Parks....

September 24, 2021 at 11:01 am read more

NextCity: Chicago Finally Getting Serious About Where It Deposits City Cash

By Oscar Perry Abello, September 14, 2021 The audit’s arrival at the end of August is timely, as Chicago City Council is set to vote today on a measure that would update and strengthen Chicago’s Responsible Banking Ordinance and...

September 15, 2021 at 10:26 am read more
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WBEZ: How Chicago’s City Council Aims to Push Banks to Lend Fairly

By Claudia Morell and Linda Lutton, September 14, 2021 “…In addition to providing lending data, banks would have to provide an annual racial breakdown of their staff, something that’s already required of many companies that do business with the...

September 15, 2021 at 10:21 am read more
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CRA Mortgages: A Failure to Implement

CRA reform efforts must address the fact that federal regulators have rated 95% of banks Satisfactory or better even though data show fewer regulated lenders meeting the law's goals.

September 8, 2021 at 5:13 pm read more
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Make Chicago Home for Everyone – Pass the Lending Equity Ordinance

Last year, millions of Americans rediscovered the importance of home. Besides safe havens, their homes became makeshift offices, schools, theaters and gyms— and the centers of family life like never before. A home is more than a place of...

September 8, 2021 at 1:14 pm read more
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The Lending Equity Ordinance will support more equitable investment in Chicago communities by banks

Woodstock and fellow Chicago affordable housing advocates have been working with Ald. Harry Osterman (48th Ward) on a Lending Equity Ordinance (LEO), which was recently introduced in City Council.

July 19, 2021 at 9:33 am read more
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