Joint Letter: Letter to HUD asking for COVID-19 protections for reverse mortgage borrowers
Letter to HUD asking for needed protections for reverse mortgage borrowers facing challenges due to COVID-19
Category Archives: Letters to Regulators
Joint Letter: 47 Organizations Urge Regulatory Agencies to Suspend All Non-Coronavirus Related Rulemaking Until National Emergency is Over
AFR Education Fund and 46 other organizations sent a letter to regulatory agencies urging them to suspend all non-COVID-19 rulemaking activity. Public advocates and regulatory agencies should focus all resources on responding to the public health emergency and the economic crisis.
Joint Letter: Letter to Regulatory Agencies Requesting Extension of Public Comment Periods
AFR Education Fund and 46 other organizations sent a letter to regulatory agencies requesting extensions of all public comment periods during the COVID-19 emergency.
Joint Letter: Letter to OMB on Regulatory Enforcement
Coalition letter responding to OMB RFI on the important role of current regulatory enforcement processes
Joint Letter: FHFA RFI on PACE Loans
AFREF and partners sent a letter to FHFA on how FHFA should approach PACE loans.
Joint Letter: Letter to HUD Opposing Changes to AFFH Rule
Coalition letter to HUD opposing changes to AFFH rule.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to FHFA on PACE RFI
AFREF joined a letter to FHFA expressing that rather than imposing punitive measures on consumers, FHFA and Enterprises should use their authority and influence over the housing finance market to incentivize PACE lenders and state actors to enhance consumer protections and adopt policies that limit risk to the Enterprises.
Letter to Regulators: AFR Education Fund letter to the CFTC regarding proposed rule on swaps registration thresholds and transaction requirements to cross- border transactions
The Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund wrote a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission urging them to strengthen a proposed rule that would fatally weaken the implementation of Title VII of Dodd-Frank and its application to CFTC-regulated derivatives markets. In the letter, AFR Education
Letter to Regulators: AFREF-EFF Letter to FTC on Private Equity takeover of .ORG
“PIR LLC will have to generate substantial additional revenue to service the debt which could force PIR LLC to take advantage of its monopoly position to raise prices to unsustainable levels, impose new service charges, reduce technical upkeep that could impair web connectivity or non-profit email traffic, or pursue other business strategies that could undermine the independence of non-profits including suspending or transferring domain names, in effect a censorship-for-profit strategy that has been used by other domain registries and internet companies.”
Letter to Regulators: Assessing Costs and Benefits of Regulations
The AFR Education Fund wrote a letter to the FDIC regarding the analysis of costs and benefits, in which we urged the regulator not to impose a false and excessively narrow framework of “cost-benefit analysis” on their decisions. Download the letter here.