Profitwise

A tri-annual newsletter with feature articles on community reinvestment and neighborhood lending, and community and economic development news. Profitwise is now published as Profitwise News and Views.

Audience: Financial institution executives, small business owners, community groups, and academics.

Winter 2003 (PDF,648KB)

• Neighborhood Housing Services: Making a Difference in Chicago Neighborhoods (cover story)
• An Informed Discussion of the Earned Income Tax Credit
• Economic Revitalization in Detroit Enters New Phase

Summer 2002 (PDF,504KB)

• Perspectives on Credit Scoring and Fair Mortgage Lending: Part Five in a Five-Part Article Series (cover story)
• lllinois Launches New Anti-Predatory Program
• 2003 Conference Announcement

Spring 2002 (PDF,389KB)

• Perspectives on Credit Scoring and Fair Mortgage Lending: Fourth of a Five-Part Article Series (cover story)
• lllinois Launches New State Tax Credit and Grant Program
• Readers Survey
• 2003 Conference Announcement

Winter 2002 (PDF,190KB)

• Perspectives on Credit Scoring and Fair Mortgage Lending: Third of a Five-Part Article Series(cover story)
• Using Account Verification Systems Effectively
• Readers Survey

Summer 2001 (PDF,329KB)

• Identity Theft: One of the Fastest Growing Crimes in the U.S.(cover story)
• Finding Security in a Gramm-Leach-Bliley World
• Arts in Action for Affordable Housing

Spring 2001 (PDF,350KB)

• Perspectives on Credit Scoring and Fair Mortgage Lending: Second of a Five-Part Article Series(cover story)
• Privacy of Consumer Financial Information
• Housing Opportunities Partnership for Southeast Wisconsin (HOPS)

Fall 2000 (PDF,9.4MB)

• Perspectives on Credit Scoring and Fair Mortgage Lending: First of a Five-Part Article Series

Summer 2000 (PDF,10MB)

• Get Checking: Providing a Financial Foothold for Milwaukee's "Unbanked" (cover story)
• Indiana Housing Finance Authority
• Using Tax Increment Financing as an Affordable Housing Development Tool

Winter 2000 (PDF,7.2MB)

• MCAP's Continuing Role in Ensuring Fairness in Mortgage Lending: Predatory Lending (cover story)
• Introducing a New Web Resource
• Core City Neighborhoods
• The Use of Formal and Informal Financial Markets Among Black Households
• Seminar Calendar

Winter 1999

• Social Compact Makes an Impact on Chicago (PDF,65KB)(cover story)
• Woodstock Institute Releases Guide on Community Development Lending (PDF,28KB)
• Wisconsin Section 8 Owners Can Now Get Equity Takeout Loans as an Incentive (PDF,83KB)
• MCAP Makes a Difference (PDF,27KB)
• Beginning a Legacy in Milwaukee (PDF,211KB)
• Neighborhood Housing Services of Kenosha: Sixteen Years of Progress (PDF,107KB)
• Will We Be Ready for Y2K? (PDF,40KB)
• Regulatory Update (PDF,131KB)
• Miscellaneous Website Information (PDF,151KB)
• Seminar Calendar (PDF,13KB)

Winter 1997

• Closing the Lending Gap Nontraditional Mortgage Lending Through Partnership (PDF,311KB) (cover story)
• Branches: Dead or Alive? (PDF,98KB)
• EFT 99 - Educating Millions (PDF,26KB)
• The Mortgage Credit Access Partnership (PDF,88KB)
• "Kid's Own Bank" (PDF,172KB)
• Seminar Calendar (PDF,15KB)

Winter 1996 (PDF,1MB)

• A Tale of Three Cities: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Saginaw, Bay City and Midland, Michigan (cover story)
• 1996 Year-End Wrap-Up
• Closing Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP) Moves South of the Border
• Milwaukee's Target Area "Goes Green"
• Activities Outside of Low- and Moderate-Income Areas May Get CRA Credit
• Regulatory Update: High Cost Mortgages
• Seminar Calendar
• Bookshelf

Spring 1996 (PDF,1MB)

• Flint: On the Road to Recovery - After Years of Economic Decline, Flint Shifts into High Gear (cover story)
• ADVOCAP: Thirty years of Providing Assistance to Wisconsin's Fox Valley
• Racial Gap in Milwaukee's Mortgage Market
• Milwaukee's Target Area "Goes Green"
• Cabrini-Green Redevelopment
• New Homes in Harvey
• Technical Corrections to the Community Reinvestment Act
• Seminar Calendar