What makes Community Reinvestment Act agreements work? A study of lender responses

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 513-545

  Bostic, Raphael W ^a   Robinson, Breck L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA); Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; Mortgages

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645694085     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 10511482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2005.9521554     Document Type: Article

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