May/June 2002 Vol. 7 - Issue 2

Contents CRA’s Impact in a Changing Financial Market New Research Sources Subscribe to Urban Research Monitor

“The Community Reinvestment Act: Its Impact on Lending in Low-Income Com-munities in the United States” Michael S. Barr, Lynda Y. de la Viña, Valerie A. Personick, and Melissa A. Schroder, Banking and Social Cohesion: Alternative Responses to a Global Market, Christophe Guene and Edward Mayo, eds., 2001. “The 25th Anniversary of the Community Reinvestment Act: Access to Capital in an Evolving Financial Services System” Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2002. “Bigger, Faster...But Better? How Changes in the Financial Services Industry Affect Small Business Lending in Urban Areas” Dan Immergluck and Geoff Smith, The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, September 2001.

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