Protecting the Community Reinvestment Act

Federal regulators released a proposal to revise the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). It would narrow bank accountability and weaken the community development infrastructure that helps bank dollars reach low- and moderate-income people and places. We rallied our members to respond during the 60-day comment, which ended on October 13, 2026.

View our responses to the proposed rule-making:

• Our comment letter
  
• CRA principles letter signed by our members

View the resources that we provided to prepare community developers respond.

• Initial CRA analysis 
• CRA toolkit for associations to write comment letters
• CRA toolkit for community developers to write comment letters 

We will keep the community development field updated on the CRA rulemaking and opportunities to take action to protect CRA.