Mortgage Servicing & Foreclosures Archives

Overview of the CFPB’s Covid-19 RESPA Rule

August 26, 2021

August 26, 2021 On June 28, 2021, the CFPB released a final rule under RESPA that includes important protections for homeowners impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The rule, which takes effect August 31, 2021, imposes procedural safeguards that limit servicers’ ability to initiate foreclosure through December 31, 2021. It also sets out enhanced early intervention…

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Advocates Push for Increased Enforcement and Later Rule Sunset to Prevent Improper Foreclosures as the CFPB Issues Final Servicing Rule

June 28, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) released its final rule under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) related to helping homeowners impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The rule contains important consumer protections to help stave off unnecessary foreclosures, but the time period for the rule’s foreclosure protections should be extended…

Joint Statement on Supervisory and Enforcement Practices Regarding the Mortgage Servicing Rules in Response to the COVID-19 Emergency and the CARES Act

June 8, 2021

Advocates Applaud HUD’s Actions to Protect Vulnerable Widows and Widowers and Prevent Avoidable Foreclosures

May 12, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 12, 2021 Boston – National Consumer Law Center advocates applaud the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for two recently announced policy changes that will help homeowners avoid unnecessary foreclosures. HUD’s reverse mortgage policy change, announced in Mortgagee Letter 2021-11, will allow non-borrowing spouses of reverse mortgage borrowers to…

Housing Advocates Praise CFPB’s Focus on Helping Homeowners at Risk of Losing Homes but Urge a Different Approach

April 5, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 5, 2021 Washington, D.C. – Housing advocates at the National Consumer Law Center, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, National Community Stabilization Trust, and the National Housing Law Project responded to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau) proposed rules issued today to impose a pre-foreclosure review period (essentially a…

Advocates Praise CFPB for Rescinding Harmful Policies that Weakened Consumer Protections

March 31, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 31, 2021 Washington, D.C. – Advocates applauded today’s announcement by the CFPB that it has rescinded several temporary policy statements issued last year that weakened consumer protection by giving financial service industries unnecessary “flexibility” not to comply with consumer protection laws, including laws governing credit cards and prepaid cards, home mortgages,…

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