Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of Student Loan Rehabilitation and Credit Score Improvement Act
AFR sent a letter to Congress supporting H.R. 6466, Representative Nikema Williams’ Student Loan Rehabilitation and Credit Score Improvement Act.
AFR sent a letter to Congress supporting H.R. 6466, Representative Nikema Williams’ Student Loan Rehabilitation and Credit Score Improvement Act.
Sara Myklebust, research director at Bargaining for the Common Good Network, an initiative of labor and community groups, worked with [Patrick] Woodall, [research director at] Americans for Financial Reform, to try to survey units owned by large-scale corporate landlords in major cities across the country in 2019. Myklebust and Woodall were interested in whether they could document the consolidation of the market for single-family rentals, manufactured homes and apartments.
AFREF and 14 allies sent a letter urging the FDIC to stop permitting its supervised institutions to front for predatory lenders evading state interest rate limits.
With new leadership taking the helm of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Americans for Financial Reform and more than a dozen other consumer and civil rights organizations have joined in calling for the FDIC to “stop permitting its supervised institutions to front for predatory lenders evading state interest rate limits.
AFR joined a letter to Congress encouraging the Senate to swiftly discharge and confirm the four highly qualified nominees for positions at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
AFR joined a letter urging Congress to immediately bring House Resolution (H.R.) 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, to a full vote on the House floor.
AFREF joined a letter opposing the online lender Figure Bank’s application for a charter.
In a letter addressed to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, a coalition of 97 unions, civil rights, financial, and environmental groups declared their support for Dr. Lisa Cook, Dr. Philip Jefferson, and Sarah Bloom Raskin, all nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
AFR sent a letter to Congress supporting Chairman Sherman’s amendments to H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act.
AFR and Public Citizen led a letter to Congress in strong support of the nominations of Lisa Cook, Sarah
Bloom Raskin, and Philip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.