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Recommendations to Improve FHA’s Foreclosure Avoidance Program
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Federal Housing Administration insures mortgage loans made by private lenders to encourage the lenders to make home loans to low- and moderate-income homeowners. Borrowers with FHA-insured mortgages who experience financial hardship during their mortgage term may be eligible for FHA’s loss mitigation program, which includes options, such as loan modifications, to enable them to save their homes.
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Coalition Recommendations for Treasury Department Implementation of the Homeowner Assistance Fund
Recommendations by Americans For Financial Reform Coalition for Treasury Department Implementation of the Homeowner Assistance Fund
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Racial Justice Priorities for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
We applaud your commitment to ensuring that the Consumer Financial Protect Bureau provides swift relief to consumers suffering economic hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic and centering racialequity as a core tenet of the Bureau’s work. The Bureau can and should take immediate and significantmeasures to promote racial equity. We write today to highlight actions…
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Testimony Regarding Protecting Seniors: A Review of the FHA’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) Program
Congress has an important role in overseeing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) administration of the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) reverse mortgage program. Congress authorized HUD to create the HECM program to encourage lenders to make reverse mortgage loans that would better enable seniors to tap into their home equity and age…
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Letter re proposed Regulation X changes which will allow streamlined loan mod offers during and immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic
Coalition organizations write to propose a solution to several of the Regulation X compliance problems that have arisen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 2.7 million borrowers are currently in a forbearance plan, and a large number of these still-struggling homeowners will exit forbearance plans soon.
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Proposed CDFI Program—Certification Application
CDFIs are uniquely suited to promote community development and expand financial inclusion.At times, however, we see CDFIs use “financial inclusion” as the central purported justificationfor permitting irresponsible lending practices, unreasonably high interest rates, and erosion oflongstanding consumer protections.
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