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MS NOW: New rule change opens the door to more housing, lending discrimination
Appearing in MS NOW on April 22, 2025, Ja’han Jones quotes Odette Williamson, director of racial justice advocacy at NCLC, in coverage of a continuation othe Trump administration’s trend of pushing pro-segregation policies when it gutted rules to prevent discrimination in the lending industry. New rule changes at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency…
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NYU Law Environmental Law Journal Article: Fractured and Forgotten: Challenging Exclusionary Titling and Co-Ownership Requirements That Displace “Heirs Property” Disaster Survivors
Volume 34, Issue 1 (2026) In the aftermath of a natural disaster, disaster survivors rely heavily on local and federal relief to rebuild their devastated homes. For households without formal legal title to their home, however, such relief is slower to arrive, leading to displaced families and damaged communities. Due to generations of frustrated access…
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NCLC Condemns Attack on Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been a leading advocate in the fight against hate, discrimination, violence, and the erosion of civil rights
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What States & Local Governments Can Do to Support Immigrants' Financial Stability
States, counties, and local governments can help protect immigrants, their families, and communities from financial exploitation and other consumer abuses.
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Trump Seeks to Strip Mortgage Rules Created to Prevent Another Financial Crisis
E.O. Rolls Back the Mortgage Lending Clock to Subprime Lending’s Heyday
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Amicus Brief in CFPB v. Colony Ridge, LLC
Amici are eight nonprofit organizations dedicated to fair housing and civil rights: National Fair Housing Alliance, National Consumer Law Center, UnidosUS, Public Justice, Center for Responsible Lending, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Southern Poverty Law Center, and League of United Latin American Citizens. Amici submit this memorandum because they are concerned that the parties’…
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Civil Rights and Immigration Advocates to Court: Sham Settlement Betrays Victims of Housing Scam
Friend of the Court Brief in Texas Fair Housing Case Calls Out Troubling Terms of Settlement Agreement
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Comments to HUD on Their Disparate Impact Proposed Rule
The proposed rule, which seeks to eliminate the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) disparate impact regulation, will significantly undermine HUD’s enforcement of the Fair Housing Act’s protections against unlawful discrimination, and make it easier for lenders, landlords and other housing providers to evade the law. Victims of discrimination and the advocates and fair…
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USA Today: Credit history is still a barrier to Section 8 tenants
Originally appearing in Capital & Main on Jan. 15, 2026, Robin Urevich talks to Chi Chi Wu, director of consumer reporting and data advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center, about how credit history does not predict tenant success. “It’s especially illogical to use credit reports and credit scores [for vetting Section 8 tenants] because…
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Debt Collectors are Emptying Families’ Bank Accounts
Weak State Exemption Laws Exacerbate Affordability Crisis, Expand Racial Wealth Gap
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ICE Has Created a Disaster in Minnesota; The Financial Services Industry Can Help
Advocates Call On Lending, Debt Collection, Credit Reporting Companies to Ease Financial Impact on Families
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