The Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council (EHOC) issued a press release after the FDIC report was released, in order to raise awareness in the St. Louis area about the significance of this report. As a result of the press release, stories were carried in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch business pages as well as column by David Nicklaus, the St. Louis American, the St. Louis Business Journal, KMOX, and KSDK News Channel 5.

SLEHCRA and the EHOC is grateful to these news organizations for covering this issue.