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Group Comments to FCC Regarding WT Docket 12-375

January 22, 2021

Group reply letter to the FCC urging adoption of final rules to reduce the cost of phone calls for the incarcerated and their families

Group Comments to FCC Regarding CG Docket No. 02-278

May 24, 2022

Group Comments to the FCC re: TCPA Application to Robocalls and Automated Text Messages to Encourage Continuation in Governmental Health Coverage Programs

Group Comments to Bank Regulators on Third-Party Risk Management Guidance Urging an End to Rent-a-Bank Schemes

October 18, 2021

Advocates express concern over the Proposed Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships' failure to highlight the significant risks associated with high-cost lending involving third-party relationships.

Group Comments Regarding Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Furnaces and Boilers

January 12, 2007

These groups all urge the Department of Energy to reconsider its decision to set an AFUE standard of 80% for non-weatherized gas furnaces.

Group Comments Regarding Debt Collection Regulations' 60 Day Delay

May 19, 2021

The undersigned organizations submit these comments in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed 60-day delay in the effective date of the final debt collection rules and call on the CFPB to use this period to revise the regulations to significantly strengthen consumer protections.

Group Comments Opposing the Petition for Declaratory Ruling Filed by Yodel Technologies LLC

October 21, 2019

CG Docket No. 02-278

Group Comments on LEP, Origination, Servicing, and Tenancy in Response to the FHFA Request for Input for the Enterprises’ Equitable Housing Finance Plans

October 25, 2021

The undersigned civil rights and consumer advocacy organizations are writing in response tothe Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (“FHFA”) Request for Input (“RFI”) for the Enterprises’Equitable Housing Finance Plans (“Equity Plans”).

Group Comments on LEP, Origination, Servicing, and Tenancy in Response to the FHFA Request for Input for the Enterprises’ Equitable Housing Finance Plans

October 25, 2021

Comments offered to the Federal Housing Finance Agency on building access to and preserving homeownership, including through equitable and linguistically-competent loan servicing and disposition of properties, and policies that promote equity and expand opportunity for low-income tenants.

Group Comments in Response to a Request for Input for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Loans

March 16, 2020

Group comments in strong support of efforts to strengthen consumer protections on PACE loans and impose comprehensive state and federal regulation that would treat PACE as a mortgage product.

Group Comment Regarding Notice of Ex Parte Presentation, CG Docket No. 02-278

July 12, 2019

Ex parte notice in intend to respond to the petition filed by the P2P Alliance on May 3, 2018,which requests that the Commission “clarify that P2P text messaging is not subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) restrictions on calls to mobile phone numbers.”

Group Civil Rights Comment on OCC Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

August 3, 2020

As the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reassesses digital activities permitted by national banks and federal savings associations, the undersigned civil rights and racial justice advocates write to urge the OCC to heed concerns regarding disparate impact, “predatory inclusion,” “digital redlining,” and the “color of surveillance.” We urge the OCC to adopt…

Gainful Employment: A Civil Rights Perspective

October 1, 2019

Students at for-profit colleges are much less likely to graduate than those at public and non-profit schools; more likely than their peers at other schools to default on their loans; and more likely to have debt and higher amounts of it. It is therefore imperative that a strong gainful employment rule is issued and enforced.

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Group Comments to FCC Regarding WT Docket 12-375

Group Comments to FCC Regarding CG Docket No. 02-278

Group Comments to Bank Regulators on Third-Party Risk Management Guidance Urging an End to Rent-a-Bank Schemes

Group Comments Regarding Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Furnaces and Boilers

Group Comments Regarding Debt Collection Regulations' 60 Day Delay

Group Comments Opposing the Petition for Declaratory Ruling Filed by Yodel Technologies LLC

Group Comments on LEP, Origination, Servicing, and Tenancy in Response to the FHFA Request for Input for the Enterprises’ Equitable Housing Finance Plans

Group Comments on LEP, Origination, Servicing, and Tenancy in Response to the FHFA Request for Input for the Enterprises’ Equitable Housing Finance Plans

Group Comments in Response to a Request for Input for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Loans

Group Comment Regarding Notice of Ex Parte Presentation, CG Docket No. 02-278

Group Civil Rights Comment on OCC Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Gainful Employment: A Civil Rights Perspective

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