Resources Archive

Group Letter Supporting the Payment Choice Act of 2021

August 5, 2021

Group Letter re: Support for the Payment Choice Act of 2021 (H.R. 4395)

Group Letter Supporting H.R. 4791, the Protecting Renters from Evictions Act of 2021

July 30, 2021

Group Letter Supporting an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to the Fair Lending for All Act

May 5, 2021

We are writing to urge your support for H.R. 166, the Fair Lending for All Act. The bill would create an Office of Fair Lending Testing within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), add two additional protected classes, and create criminal penalties for violations, three necessary improvements.

Group Letter Regarding the Consumer Website Portal to Provide Information to Consumers on Mortgage and Rental Relief Options Available During COVID-19

June 2, 2020

Group Letter Regarding First Generation Down Payment Assistance

October 26, 2021

A broad coalition of civil rights, consumer, and housing advocates write to highlight the urgent need to include targeted first-generation down payment assistance (DPA) in the Build Back Better Act.

Group Letter Regarding Federal Reserve Actions to Support Interbank Settlement of Faster Payments

November 7, 2019

Consumer, civil rights and community advocates write to urge the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) to ensure rigorous consumer protections as it develops its FedNow service.

Group Letter Regarding Compliance Report, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

April 1, 2020

Group Letter to the U.S. Department of Education re: Compliance Report, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

Group Letter on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination

October 27, 2021

Organizations write to urge Ambassador Susan Rice to place a high priority on ensuring that data-driven technologies — including algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, and machine learning increasingly used to make important decisions about people’s lives — protect civil rights, prevent unlawful discrimination, and advance equal opportunity.

Group Letter from Over 200 Organizations to President Biden Urging Extension of the Pause on Student Loan Payments

December 8, 2021

207 organizations write to urge President Joe Biden to put a stop to a crisis in the making by extending the current pause on student loan payments. It is clear that payments should not resume until your administration has fully delivered on the promises you made to student loan borrowers to fix the broken student loan system and cancel federal student debt.

Group Letter Calling on President Biden to Cancel Federal Student Debt Immediately Via Executive action

May 27, 2022

The 529 undersigned community, civil rights, education, climate, health, consumer, labor, professional, food and farm, and student advocacy organizations write to urge you to strengthen the economy, tackle racial disparities, and provide much-needed relief to help all Americans weather the pandemic and record inflation by using executive authority to cancel federal student debt immediately.

Group Comments Urging Dept. of Education to Adopt Stronger Borrower Defense Rule and Opposing Proposed Rule

August 30, 2018

Group Comments Urging Dept. of Education to Adopt Stronger Borrower Defense Rule and Opposing Proposed Rule

Group Comments to the U.S. Department of Education Regarding Changes to Reporting on Distance Education

May 20, 2019

The proposed change in distance education reporting in the completions survey component will better align the survey with the ways institutions organize their programs.

All Resources

Group Letter Supporting the Payment Choice Act of 2021

Group Letter Supporting H.R. 4791, the Protecting Renters from Evictions Act of 2021

Group Letter Supporting an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to the Fair Lending for All Act

Group Letter Regarding the Consumer Website Portal to Provide Information to Consumers on Mortgage and Rental Relief Options Available During COVID-19

Group Letter Regarding First Generation Down Payment Assistance

Group Letter Regarding Federal Reserve Actions to Support Interbank Settlement of Faster Payments

Group Letter Regarding Compliance Report, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools

Group Letter on Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination

Group Letter from Over 200 Organizations to President Biden Urging Extension of the Pause on Student Loan Payments

Group Letter Calling on President Biden to Cancel Federal Student Debt Immediately Via Executive action

Group Comments Urging Dept. of Education to Adopt Stronger Borrower Defense Rule and Opposing Proposed Rule

Group Comments to the U.S. Department of Education Regarding Changes to Reporting on Distance Education

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