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Group Letter Regarding First Generation Down Payment Assistance

October 26, 2021

A broad coalition of civil rights, consumer, and housing advocates write to highlight the urgent need to include targeted first-generation down payment assistance (DPA) in the Build Back Better Act.

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Group Letter Calling on President Biden to Cancel Federal Student Debt Immediately Via Executive action

May 27, 2022

The 529 undersigned community, civil rights, education, climate, health, consumer, labor, professional, food and farm, and student advocacy organizations write to urge you to strengthen the economy, tackle racial disparities, and provide much-needed relief to help all Americans weather the pandemic and record inflation by using executive authority to cancel federal student debt immediately.

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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

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”).

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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

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.

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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…

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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 Letter Regarding First Generation Down Payment Assistance

Group Letter Calling on President Biden to Cancel Federal Student Debt Immediately Via Executive action

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

Support NCLC