States Can Take Steps to Prevent Property Tax Foreclosures and Preserve Homeownership and Transfer of Intergenerational Wealth BOSTON – A new report from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) looks at the unique issues heirs face when inheriting a home with an overdue property tax bill and the disproportionate impact on Black and Latino wealth…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s radical decision dismantling affirmative action in higher education is outrageous and disheartening and will limit educational and economic opportunity for people of color. The decision disregards decades of federal precedent upholding the consideration of race in higher education admissions and ignores the legacy of discrimination in American society, and the daily…
WASHINGTON— Nketiah “Ink” Berko, a former NCLC intern, will return to the National Consumer Law Center upon his graduation from Yale Law School as an Equal Justice Works fellow to spend two years advancing access to justice for underserved communities. Equal Justice Works, the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law, named Berko,…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, leading civil rights and housing policy organizations issued the following statement supporting the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s pricing framework.
TEXAS – Today, a coalition representing a broad cross-section of consumers, including communities of color and communities with lower incomes, urged a federal court to uphold the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) authority to hold financial institutions accountable for discriminatory practices. This brief, filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC), National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), National Association…
