Trump Administration Ramps Up Efforts to Debank Immigrants
New CFPB Advisory Telling Banks To Consider Immigration Status Does Not Create a New Legal Requirement
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Trump Fintech Order Will Promote Predatory Lending, Endanger Consumer Funds
Order Could Enable Payday Lenders to Ignore State Consumer Protection Laws and Skip Guardrails to Get Bank Charters
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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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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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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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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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Massachusetts Voters Overwhelmingly Support Passage of the Road to Opportunity Act
Polling Finds Broad, Bipartisan Support for Ending Debt-Based Driving Restrictions
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As MLK Day Approaches, HUD Takes Steps to Reduce Access to Housing
Proposed Rule Change Would Condone Discrimination in Housing
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