Joint Advocacy/Industry Letter on FHA Loss Mitigation
This joint advocacy and industry letter supports FHA’s loss mitigation program.
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This joint advocacy and industry letter supports FHA’s loss mitigation program.
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To Leaders Thune and Schumer, Speaker Johnson, and Leader Jeffries: We, the 1,573 undersigned national, state, and local organizations, write to oppose efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Secretary Scott Turner to terminate at least half of all employees at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This is a…
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The document is the NCLC/CRL Statement for the Record for the March 11, 2025 Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Legislative Hearing.
This bill that would require up-front disclosure of fees, standardize and cap application fees, prohibit landlords from charging fees other than a screening fee to process an application, and prevent excessive late fees.
In response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and coerced debt, a coalition of organizations, including the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice (CSAJ), and the National Coerced Debt Working Group (CDWG), alongside numerous state and…
This letter from a large coalition of organizations that support college access and affordability for students from low-income families urges Congress to shore up funding for the Pell Grant program and protect students from the harmful effects of a funding shortfall. In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new supplemental projections for the Pell…
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NCLC joined a letter from several consumer and investor protection organizations opposing the GENIUS Act and the STABLE Act, as introduced in Congress this session. Stablecoins used either to facilitate investment activity on crypto exchanges or as tools for payments present a host of risks – run risks, contagion and financial stability risk, custody risks,…
NCLC submitted comments, co-authored by the Prison Policy Initiative and Stephen Raher, in response to the Bureau of Prisons’ (“BOP”) Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPR”) on the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (“IFRP”). The IFRP is a nominally voluntary program in federal prisons that is intended to encourage incarcerated people to pay off outstanding government-imposed…
Preserve the CFPB’s independence: Created on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB was designed to be led by a single independent director, rather than a much weaker commission structure. This allows the agency to more effectively protect people from fraud, deception, and abuse and act nimbly to address emerging wrongdoing by financial…