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86 Among the rationales for this approach, two are especially pertinent. First, people in low-income areas seem especially vulnerable to neglect and abuse by for-profit health care providers. Such communities have di≈culty attracting able physicians, and their members’ relatively low levels of education and limited experience with health care impair their ability to negotiate with and monitor their doctors individually. Nonprofits sometimes have an advantage in attracting doctors motivated to give good care and have greater incentives to monitor certain aspects of quality.

41. 200. 42 Perhaps the most significant aspect of recent housing policy for the ced Movement is the increased importance of nonprofit (typically, cdc) entrepreneurialism. Since the 1980s, direct federal support for new construction under pha and project-based private programs has dwindled. Directly supported production is now barely su≈cient to replace units being demolished. Net additions to the a√ordable stock depend on the e√orts of private producers. The major current sources of support for a√ordable private-housing development make special provision for nonprofit producers.

12 usc 2902(3), 2903(a)(2). 30 : Community Economic Development Movement industry, such regulatory approvals have been often sought in recent years. 59 However, the stakes in such proceedings are often so large that even a tiny probability of denial, or even of delay, has proved enough to motivate many banks to strive for a respectable cra rating. The motivation was intensified by the 1995 regulations, which appeared to signal an intention by the regulators to enforce more vigorously. 60 This figure was dwarfed by a series of cra commitments in following years.