The Community Reinvestment Act Isn’t Working

Julian Hartwell
5 min readJul 24, 2020

New regulations are hurting low-income borrowers

In May the Office of the Comptroller of Currency enacted new regulations that overhauled the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). These changes are now under fire. In June, House Democrats — led by Maxine Waters and Gregory Meeks — proposed a new bill that would revise the recent updates to the CRA.

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Julian Hartwell

Graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Social Policy and Data Science.