On Wednesday, March 27th, a coalition made up of 109 civic groups sent a letter to Mortgage Settlement Monitor Joe Smith and the Executive Monitoring Committee highlighting concerns with the slow pace of change on the ground for hardest-hit communities and the need for greater oversight.

AFR joined more than 100 public interest groups in sending a letter to the mortgage settlement monitor stressing the need for greater transparency to ensure the effectiveness of this settlement agreement for communities of color and other hardest-hit communities

“Consumer groups are urging the monitor of the national mortgage settlement to add data on race, ethnicity and geography to determine whether the five largest servicers are offering relief to communities hit hardest by foreclosures,” …

AFR’s foreclosure working group has appealed to the monitor of the national mortgage settlement to include race, ethnicity, and geography in a public process of evaluation. In a letter to Joseph Smith of the North …

AFR joined more than 35 organizations in signing onto a comment letter regarding the CFPB’s servicing standards proposal.