Home Equity “Investment” (HEI) Loans are a relatively new financial product secured by a homeowner’s primary residence. At heart, they are very expensive mortgages with confusing and overly complicated terms. HEI lenders try to evade consumer protections by falsely claiming that their product is not a loan. Courts and lawmakers who have looked at HEI…
To protect homeowners, states can classify HEI loans as mortgages subject to consumer protections, require caps on the maximum repayment amount, and mandate counseling for borrowers.
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The letter urges the agencies to preserve the 2024 regulation prohibiting “disparate impact” discrimination (2023 Disparate Impact Rule), which appropriately ensures that landlords, lenders, and others use the fairest policy available to provide housing and lending opportunities for all. Without any public notice and comment, HUD has sent a “Final Rule” entitled “HUD’s Implementation of…
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NCLC, on behalf of its low-income clients, writes to urge the Department to renew the Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) discharge data matching agreement with the Social Security Administration (SSA) and to bring to its attention complaints we have received from disabled Americans and their representatives regarding the TPD application process.
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Letter from 45 consumer, economic justice, privacy, and advocacy groups in response to House Financial Services Committee request for feedback on current federal consumer financial data privacy law and potential legislative proposals. The letter urges changes to the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) that:
We support HUD’s ongoing commitment to sustainable homeownership. As HUD notes, this mission is consistent with HUD’s core obligation of protecting the Mortgage Mutual Insurance Fund. Importantly, it also aligns with HUD’s statutory duty of “meet[ing] the housing needs of the borrowers that the single family mortgage insurance program under this subchapter is designed to…
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This sign on letter from the members of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Media/Telecom Task Force urges the FCC to not change the National TV Audience Cap which has been set by Congress. The groups also urge the FCC to close the loophole that is technologically incorrect and permits media consolidation in…
Twenty-six advocacy groups submitted a letter urging Congress to defend the data privacy and consumer protections in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s original (CFPB) Personal Financial Data Rights rule and to conduct hearings on the rule.
The Federal Defenders of San Diego and NCLC submitted this amicus brief in support of the Ninth Circuit granting en banc review in United States v. Myers, No. 23-1034, 2025 WL 1300439 (9th Cir. May 6, 2025). Seven other organizations signed on: Family Assistance Program, Fines and Fees Justice Center, Juvenile Law Center, Prison Policy…
NCLC joined the American Bankers Association, Americans for Financial Reform, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Independent Community Bankers of America, Money Transmitter Regulators Association, and National Conference of State Legislatures urging Congress to strike Section 16(d) of the recently enacted GENIUS Act. Section 16(d) allows any state-chartered uninsured depository institution with a stablecoin subsidiary to…
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The National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients) and Consumer Federation of America, in a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte, strongly oppose the inclusion of crypto assets in the underwriting of federally insured mortgages. This proposal will expose taxpayers to increased risk of losses, open the door to…
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Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT), The Utility Reform Network (TURN), National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), and National Housing Law Project (NHLP) submitted joint responses to questions presented in the Ruling, as well as an overall discussion of the pending proposals, the proposal assessment provided with the Ruling, and the history of the proceeding which led…
