donderdag, december 11, 2008

Community Reinvestment Act

De Amerikaanse overheid moedigde met deze anti-discriminatiewet het geven van subprime leningen aan.
Op deze manier wou het mensen uit armere wijken in Amerika de mogelijkheid geven om de Amerikaanse droom na te streven.
In de meeste gevallen is dit echter mislukt en waren deze niet in staat hun leningen af te betalen, het gevolg is de wereldwijde economische crisis waar we nu in zitten.

he Community Reinvestment Act (or CRA, Pub.L. 95-128, title VIII, 91 Stat. 1147, 12 U.S.C. § 2901 et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.[1][2][3] The Act was intended to reduce discriminatory credit practices against such neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining.[4] The Act requires the appropriate federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage regulated financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered, consistent with safe and sound operation. (See full text of Act and current regulations.[1]) To enforce the statute, federal regulatory agencies examine banking institutions for CRA compliance, and take this information into consideration when approving applications for new bank branches or for mergers or acquisitions.[5]
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