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Consumer and Civil Rights Advocates Condemn Credit Bureaus for Suing Over Language Access Law

October 21, 2019

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA) sued the State of New Jersey over its new law requiring credit reports to be provided in Spanish and 10 other languages, claiming the law is preempted and a violation of the First Amendment. CDIA is a trade association for the credit reporting industry, the…

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FHFA Backtracks on Critical Language Access Question on Mortgage Application

August 9, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 9, 2019 Washington, D.C.- Advocates at the National Consumer Law Center decried the decision announced yesterday by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to remove a question about the mortgage applicant’s language preference from the Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA), the form used widely across the mortgage market. FHFA had announced…

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