Organizing access to capital : advocacy and the democratization of financial institutions / edited by Gregory D. Squires.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Squires, Gregory D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bank loans--United States.

Bank loans.

United States.

Financial institutions--United States.

Financial institutions.

Community development--United States--Finance.

Community development.

Finance.

Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.

Economic assistance, Domestic.

Physical Description:

vi, 238 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: the rough road to reinvestment / Gregory D. Squires

Where the hell did billions of dollars for reinvestment come from? / Joe Mariano

Giving back to the future: citizen involvement and community stabilization in Milwaukee / William R. Tisdale and Carla J. Wertheim

Taking it to the courts: litigation and the reform of financial institutions / John P. Relman

From living rooms to board rooms: sustainable homeownership deals with banks and insurers in Boston / Thomas Callahan

A citywide strategy: the Pittsburgh community reinvestment group / Stanley A. Lowe and John T. Metzger

Filling the half-empty glass: the role of community advocacy in redefining the public responsibilities of government-sponsored housing enterprises / Allen J. Fishbein

Fighting predatory lending from the ground up: an issue of economic justice / Maude Hurd and Steven Kest

Community reinvestment in a globalizing world: to hold banks accountable, from the Bronx to Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Basel / Matthew Lee

Research, advocacy, and community reinvestment / Malcolm Bush and Daniel Immergluck

The essential role of activism in community reinvestment / John Taylor and Josh Silver

Protest, progress, and the politics of reinvestment / Peter Dreier

Epilogue: where do we go from here? / Gregory D. Squires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1592130259

1592130267

OCLC:

50694861