This report highlights and evaluates the efficacy of various laws and policies aimed at helping owners of heirs property, a significant driver of land loss in communities of color.
NCLC and other consumer organizations submitted comments in connection with the Federal Reserve Board’s review under the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act (EGRPRA) of the Community Reinvestment Act and the Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks as set forth in Regulation CC, 12 C.F.R. Part 229.
This video, part of Columbia Aging Center's Age Boom Academy 2023, looks at challenges to sustaining homeownership, issues concerning heirs' property, property tax foreclosures, and predatory investors and speculation in Black communities.
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This video, part of Columbia Aging Center's Age Boom Academy 2023, looks at challenges to sustaining homeownership, issues concerning heirs' property, property tax foreclosures, and predatory investors and speculation in Black communities.
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DOJ and CFPB jointly sue Colony Ridge for operating an illegal land sales scheme that targeted low-income Hispanic consumers.
In this testimony, we write in support of Massachusetts bills H.3314 and S.2227, “An Act to End Debt-Based Driving Restrictions and Remove Economic Roadblocks," and we urge the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Transportation to vote them favorably out of committee. The testimony highlights the harms that debt-based license suspensions cause to low-income people, and particularly to low-income people of color.
