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Statement: Trump’s DOJ Lets RealPage Off the Hook for Driving Up Rents
As millions of US families approach the Thanksgiving holiday weekend struggling to afford sky-high housing prices while putting food on the table, the Trump DOJ appears to have granted RealPage and its private equity owner a generous holiday gift.
Upcoming Events
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12/4 – AFREF Speaker Series: Price Gouging Captive Customers
From car dealerships to hospitals to stadiums to payments and beyond, companies are charging “captive customers” more in situations where they do not have choices. AFREF invites you to a conversation with Brian Shearer of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator to discuss his recent work on strategies states can use to fight this kind of price gouging and stand up for consumers’ rights.
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12/8 – AFREF Webinar: Stop Funding Billionaires
Billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and their companies Tesla and Palantir have huge investments from our pension funds. They’re using our money to attack our communities, destroy our jobs and steal our democracy—and they’re driving the kidnapping and deportation of immigrant families today. Our retirement funds and endowments should not be used against us and our communities. Labor leaders, community activists and pension experts are co-hosting a webinar on December 8th to share strategies for how we can fight back. We’ll dig in on examples such as the Chicago Teachers’ Union’s Resolution For A Pension Fund that Provides…
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12/9 – AFREF Webinar: How Insurance Companies are Weathering Climate Change, Pulling In Record Profits, and Squeezing Us Dry
The Equitable & Just Insurance Initiative invites you to join a virtual deep dive into the climate-driven insurance crisis to discuss: ● What the insurance industry has been up to and how their practices are worsening the housing and affordability crises; and ● How a little-known regulator—your State Insurance Commissioner—can use its powers to investigate insurers, stop their excessive rate hikes, and more, to protect you and your wallet; and ● Why stronger consumer protections benefit and protect all of us.
The Latest from AFR
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Rising Property Insurance Premiums: The Uneven Risks to Household and Systemic Financial Stability
Introduction Property insurance is growing more expensive and harder to obtain throughout the U.S. Climate change and the rising costs of severe weather damage are a crucial cause, but racial and economic inequities within the property insurance market are an important part of the puzzle, and they have been too frequently overlooked. In particular, recent
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AFR in the News
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Politics Plus: Open Thread November 27 2025
Holiday Inbox Chaos and Other Signs of the Times with guest video from Americans for Financial Reform
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Black Agenda Report: Unable to Squeeze Another Dime From Black People, a Subprime Economy Runs Aground
In a 2022 paper, Emily Hirtle, a policy associate for Americans for Financial Reform wrote: “Racism flourishes in the subprime auto market as well – as of 2016, at least eight banks had been accused of increasing interest rates for Black and Latinx borrowers. As Senator Elizabeth Warren remarked in a 2015 speech: ‘The [auto]…
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Finextra: The Genius Act: what needs to be addressed and why should we care?
Additionally, critics like Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) have noted that the act offers “little protection for consumers from failed stablecoins.
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Fact Sheet: CLARITY Act Worse than Last Year’s FIT 21 Crypto Deregulation
From Bad to WorseKey Differences Between Crypto-Backed CLARITY Act and FIT 21 Deregulation Click here for a PDF of this document. This year’s crypto market structure legislation promoted by the industry shares many of the flaws of last year’s crypto legislation, but the deregulatory elements in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (H.R.
