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 Trump officials have tried to destroy, will erode antidiscrimination requirements in the housing and lending industries.
The ECOA has been seen as a bulwark against redlining. The National Consumer Law Center, a pro-consumer activist group, rebuked the rule change, saying it opens the door to a range of racist practices.
“It sets the stage for hidden discrimination and predatory lending, including old threats, like redlining, and new problems, such as algorithmically based discrimination,” said Odette Williamson, NCLC’s director of racial justice advocacy.
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