Consumer and Industry Advocates Outline Reforms to Property Tax Foreclosure Laws to Promote Sustainable Homeownership
A new issue brief provides recommendations for states to protect property owners from unnecessary tax foreclosures.
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A new issue brief provides recommendations for states to protect property owners from unnecessary tax foreclosures.
A coalition of affordable housing and civil rights organizations applaud Monday’s announcement from the Federal Housing Finance Agency finalizing a rule on fair housing, fair lending, and equitable housing finance.
DOJ and CFPB jointly sue Colony Ridge for operating an illegal land sales scheme that targeted low-income Hispanic consumers.
NCLC Advocates Praise New Requirement for Use of Supplemental Consumer Information Form WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced that it will require lenders making FHA-insured mortgage loans to use the Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac Supplementary Consumer Information Form (SCIF) to collect a mortgage applicant’s language…
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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Sylvia R. Garcia (TX-29) announces the reintroduction of two bills for Financial Literacy Month: the Community Finance Language Inclusion Act and the Multilingual Financial Literacy Act. Both bills are supported by the National Consumer Law Center and aim to strengthen and expand financial literacy for limited English proficiency individuals. The Community Finance Language Inclusion Act would expand the…
WASHINGTON – The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) proposed rule to codify several existing measures to ensure a fair and accessible housing finance system will require housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to collect and report information about mortgage applicants’ language preference, according to Americans for Financial Reform Language Access Task Force…