Homeowner Assistance Fund Model Plan: Planning and Administration
Model plan for Homeowner Assistance Fund assessment.
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What Should Happen in the Wake of a Natural Disaster? Severe hurricanes, floods, mudslides and wildfires can threaten life and property, displace families and devastate communities. Residents in areas experiencing natural disasters may find their homes are not be habitable for long periods of time resulting in temporary to permanent displacement of the families. Community…
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Refund Anticipation Loans Model Law.
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This Act shall be known and cited as the "Individual Tax Preparer Regulation Act." This Act shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purpose.
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Scorecard Shows Consumers Pay Steep Rates for Small Loans: Financial Reform Should Include a Strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Official text with comments (1970). Advocates of greater consumer protection for consumers in the United States long have known that extensive revision of the laws affecting consumers is necessary. The thrust of those laws necessarily must be to, equalize the bargaining position between industry and consumers. One of the areas in which the greatest abuses…
A model for consumer protection prepared by NCLC in 1973.
Proposed survey of results addenda…
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Analysis of constitutional issues related to foreclosure crisis-driven state relief laws.
Includes: Model Loan Mod – Deed of Trust States Model Loan Mod – Mortgage States – Non-Judicial Model Loan Mod – Judicial Foreclosure States
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In recent months, a wave of foreclosures has swept millions of American families from their homes. The magnitude of this crisis defies easy comprehension: more than 8 million American families are expected to lose their homes to foreclosure in the next four years. Much has been written about the financial and economic causes of this…
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The foreclosure crisis has presented the perfect opportunity for foreclosure rescue scams. These scams come in two main varieties. In the first, a foreclosure “consultant” takes an up front payment and promises to arrange refinancing or postpone the foreclosure, but does nothing and costs the homeowner not only money but critical time. In the second,…
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