A Principle-Based Redesign of HMDA and CRA Data

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Adam Rust, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina

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Volume 4, Issue 1 | July 13, 2009

Community groups rely on the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) databases to engage in advocacy. Those databases, however, have not kept up with recent financial innovations, particularly in subprime mortgage lending, and need to be reformed.