(The Center Square) -Concerns about the use of Washington state’s Community Reinvestment Program (CRP) funds have now moved on to the Tacoma Urban League, including the organization’s director being put on leave, interviews show.
CRP was created to support homeownership for minorities by providing grants and funding to programs that assist low-income households, and to support minority owned business development.
The funds are administered by the Washington Department of Commerce and initially amounted to $200 million in taxpayer funds to lift communities “disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs” and housing discrimination of the past. It is similar to the race-based Covenant Homeownership Program, which The Center Square has written about…