Tag: CDFIs

In 2022, a government task force released an action plan about combating bias in the appraisal industry. How can CDFIs fight back against the damage caused by under-appraisals?

Companies that value meritocracy perform worse with pay equity when their internal policies do not align with their public-facing statements regarding pay.

The dual financial system affects not only Black and Brown consumers, but Black- and Brown-led firms. In the past two years, CDFIs have focused on shifting access to capital for developers.

Community development financial institutions lend to micro- and small-business owners, but the jobs those businesses create are often minimum wage, part time, or otherwise low quality. What makes a job a good job, and what are CDFIs doing to help small-business borrowers create good jobs?

How to keep affordable apartments and single-family homes out of the hands of institutional investors if the coronavirus pandemic leads to a giant wave of evictions and foreclosures.

The Payroll Protection Program is an expansion of a program for banks and credit unions. It offers virtually nothing to nonprofit small-business lenders.

Data on the pandemic shows once again the dramatic consequences of racial inequalities. CDFIs must focus on ensuring equity for Black-owned businesses.

CDFIs and nonprofits are figuring out how to help formerly incarcerated people build credit histories and access capital in order to get their lives going.

Few books make me so angry that I must resist throwing them across the floor. One such book, published in 2002 (and since updated)...

Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute in conversation with Ed Gorman of NCRC on whether community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are taking enough risk, and therefore, falling short of their mission.

CDFIs across the country were trying to do what they could to ease the effects of the recent government shutdown. Here is just a partial list.

We are definitely in some danger of losing a connection to the animating social movements that gave rise to the industry.

It should be a natural fit; what’s in the way?

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer in July signed into law authorization to create the nation’s first State Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) program. The...