Racial Justice Archives

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 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.

Amicus Brief in Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media

September 30, 2019

Brief of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Twenty-One National Organizations in Support of Respondents.

Borrowing from Our Future: The Case for Cancelling Student Debt

August 10, 2020

Part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center’s Coronavirus Explainer series featuring contributions from NCLC and allied organizations.

Approaching Consumer Law with a Racial Justice Lens

July 13, 2021

Webinar to introduce consumer advocates to concepts that will assist them in centering race in their practice.

Amicus Brief in Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et.al.

September 30, 2019

Amicus brief of Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and 21 national organizations in support of the respondents.

A Review of the State of and Barriers to Minority Homeownership

May 8, 2019

The National Consumer Law Center strongly supports congressional efforts to regulate predatory land contracts.

2021 Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Lending Priorities: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

November 1, 2020

Brief outlining NCLC's 2021 Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Lending Priorities for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Equity & Racial Justice

Medical Debt Crisis: Impact on Black American Families

July 13, 2022

July 13, 2022 Despite the aims of the Affordable Care Act, medical debt remains a looming crisis, disproportionately affecting Black households and communities. Race contributes to whether households have medical debt, with 28% of Black households carrying medical debt compared to 17% of white non-Hispanic households. Households in the South, the region with the highest…

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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 Civil Rights Comment on OCC Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Gainful Employment: A Civil Rights Perspective

Amicus Brief in Comcast v. National Association of African American-Owned Media

Borrowing from Our Future: The Case for Cancelling Student Debt

Approaching Consumer Law with a Racial Justice Lens

Amicus Brief in Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media, et.al.

A Review of the State of and Barriers to Minority Homeownership

2021 Foreclosure Prevention and Mortgage Lending Priorities: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Equity & Racial Justice

Medical Debt Crisis: Impact on Black American Families

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