A recent survey from the Federal Reserve Board showing that 7% of U.S. homeowners are going without property insurance underscores a key part of a national housing affordability crisis.
Trump’s various crypto holdings have increased his family’s wealth by an estimated $2.9bn, according to a recent report from State Democracy Defenders Action.
The insurance industry’s continued embrace of fossil fuel projects is worsening climate change, which ultimately hits consumers in the form of higher premiums for homeowners insurance, consumer groups said Wednesday.
“Housing discrimination makes it even harder for millions of families – particularly people with disabilities and people of color – to find housing and worsens our housing crisis. Secretary Turner has taken all of these actions without any public explanation as to how HUD proposes to address their negative impact on our nation’s fair and affordable housing crisis,” the letter states.
Progressive groups, including Indivisible and Americans for Financial Reform, have been circulating petitions in opposition to the bill, and a new organization called Democracy Defenders Action, led by former White House counsel Norm Eisen, is warning senators to vote no.
“”Dropping cases like this against Heights Finance, where a predatory lender was picking the pockets of working class people, signals that it’s okay to pick on the little guy,”” Zinner said.