Policy Briefs, Reports & Press Releases
- Issue Brief: Using the Homeowner Assistance Fund to Prevent Reverse Mortgage Foreclosures: What Treasury and the States Can Do, April 2021
- Issue Brief: Recommendations to Improve Servicing and Reduce Foreclosures of Federal Reverse Mortgages, March 2020
- Fact Sheet: Are You a Reverse Mortgage Non-Borrowing Spouse? Tips to Help You Remain in Your Home, February 2020
- Press release: In the Wake of HUD Major Policy Change on Non-Borrowing Spouses, NCLC Attorney Sarah Mancini to Testify before the U.S. House on Risks to Elders on from Reverse Mortgage Abuses, Sept. 24, 2019 || Sarah Mancini’s Testimony
- Press release: National Consumer Law Center Advocates Urge HUD to Take Immediate Action to Reduce Foreclosures on Widows and Widowers of Reverse Mortgage Borrowers, November 27, 2018
- Issue brief: How HUD is Failing to Protect Widows and Widowers of Reverse Mortgage Borrowers: Case Studies and Recommendations, November 2018
- Issue brief: Assisting Homeowners with Reverse Mortgages after a Natural Disaster: A Guide for Advocates, October 2018
- Issue brief: Examples of Senior Homeowners Struggling with Ineffective and Inconsistent Servicing of HECM Loans, October 2017
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Policy brief: Priorities for Consumers with HECM Reverse Mortgages, September 2015
- Advocates Applaud HUD on New Reverse Mortgage Policy that Could Reduce Foreclosures on Surviving Spouses, June 2015
- Press Release and Report: Subprime Revisited: How the Rise of the Reverse Mortgage Lending Industry Puts Older Homeowners at Risk, October 2009