The letter is about the failure of a regulated gas company in MD (WGL) to comply with state law regarding gas infrastructure replacement, Next Generation Energy Act (modifies the STRIDE law), to prioritize safety and demonstrate cost effectiveness, including repair of gas lines over replacement. Marylanders are overpaying for gas because of industry abuses that…
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This letter urges the House and Senate committees to do oversight hearings of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and catalogues the long list of actions the agency has taken in the last year that have undermined this agency’s independence and effectiveness, and have made our nation’s housing affordability crisis worse.
This letter urges the House leadership to include the PRICE Act in the larger homeownership bill package under consideration. The PRICE Act formally authorizes PRICE, a manufactured housing community revitalization program, at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which would involve competitive grants to state and local government and manufactured home communities…
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This is a letter on behalf of the National Consumer Law Center regarding the Urban Institute’s February 2026 research report (“Report”) on “shared equity products,” commonly known as “home equity investment loans” (“HEI loans”). We urge the Urban Institute to revise the Report to retract the inaccurate legal conclusions that HEI loans are not loans…
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This letter supports Senator Duckworth’s amendment to S.1962 to repeal the FCC’s 2025 Order on Incarcerated People’s Communications Services. The 2025 Order misapplies the historic, bipartisan reforms contained in the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act, which the U.S. Senate adopted unanimously in 2021 and further sets aside the unanimous bi-partisan vote by the…
President Trump announced that he will be nominating Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin to replace Secretary Noem as head of DHS. Congress should demand the following sorely needed reforms are enacted – including undoing internal processes that delayed or prevented assistance from reaching disaster survivors over the last year and a half – before considering…
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The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), on behalf of its low-income clients, supports the Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act legislative package and encourages its swift passage. The Act includes provisions to make homeownership more sustainable and to address challenges with housing supply and affordability. In particular, the bill makes permanent a key assistance…
This letter urges the Los Angeles City Council to prohibit landlords from using Ratio Utility Billing System (RUBS) to calculate utility bills in master-metered rental housing.
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NCLC and several consumer and civil rights organizations urged that the House Financial Services Committee address several key points to prevent the Earned Wage Access Consumer Protection Act from worsending the affordability crisis by protecting a business model that extracts hundreds of dollars a year from struggling families and forces workers to pay to be…
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NCLC joined community, civil rights, labor, consumer, civic and other organizations in urging members of Congress to fight for an effective Consumer Financial Protection Bureau able to carry out its statutorily mandated consumer protection mission for the long term, and to oppose legislative efforts to weaken the agency.