By Steve Daniels, October 21, 2021 “This (lawsuit) is painting the Federal Reserve into a corner,” says Horacio Mendez, CEO of Chicago-based Woodstock Institute, a 48-year-old fair-lending organization. “I don’t believe this is a delay. I think they have...
By David Nicklaus, October 21, 2021 Horacio Mendez, president of the Woodstock Institute in Chicago, called the data “prima facie evidence” of “egregious redlining.” Woodstock, which does research on economic justice, joined the coalition seeking to block the merger. Complicating the...
By James Drew, October 19, 2021 SLEHCRA and two other groups, the Woodstock Institute and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, submitted letters Monday opposing the merger to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In addition to urging regulators to...
Woodstock recently signed on to an advocates’ response to a Request for Information (RFI) from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) asking for input on data, analytical methods, and stakeholder engagement strategies that federal agencies should use...
Last month, Woodstock signed on to a letter led by the National Consumer Law Center to support the Real Estate Valuation Fairness and Improvement Act of 2021 (H.R. 2553), which was just introduced in Congress by Reps. Emanuel Cleaver...
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).