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Gale Cincotta

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Your business in a hyper-connected consumer, employee world: Porter Gale at TEDxPresidio

 

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Gale Cincotta: A Trailblazer For Affordable Housing | Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (NHS)

 

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8C Pheasant Ln, Shelter Island, NY 11964

 

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2 Behringer Ln, Shelter Island, NY, United States, Shelter Island, NY 11964

 

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61 Peconic Ave, Shelter Island, NY, United States, Shelter Island, NY 11964

Gale Cincotta, a community activist from the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, led the national fight for the US federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) of 1975 and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977. The CRA requires banks and savings and loans to offer credit throughout their entire market areas and prohibits them from targeting only wealthier neighborhoods with their lending and services, a practice known as redlining. She was a co-founder with Shel Trapp of the National People's Action in Chicago, a coalition of some 300 community organizations throughout the United States, and served as its executive director and chairperson from 1973 until her death in 2001.
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