City National Bank Shows Why Some CRA Proposals are Wrong

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01092020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      There’s a big split within the federal banking establishment about what to do about revisions to the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act.  This is not your run of the mill, chest thumping, and elbow pushing in Washington over turf and regulatory jurisdiction.  It’s actually very …

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Plundering Black Wealth with Predatory Land Installment Contracts

ACORN Citizen Wealth Community Organizing Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11092019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsColumbus        An analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis on a panel with us at the Benjamin Hooks Institute at the University of Memphis listened to our remarks about the devastating impact of hedge funds and land installment contract companies in Memphis, and asked me …

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Liberal Affordable Housing Conundrums

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans   Just maybe there is beginning to be an emerging consensus in the United States, joining many other countries around the world, that there is in fact an affordable housing crisis in the country.   Perhaps I should clarify this quickly.  Let’s say that among liberals there …

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