AFR Statement on CFPB Mortgage Lending Rule
“[P]ortions of today’s rule should have been stronger, and the CFPB has put one very important question on the table for further comment, creating a risk of further slippage.”
Tag Archives: Mortgage Market
AFR in the News: CFPB Readies New Mortgage Rules as Banks Seek More Time
The rules… are “likely to resemble” an October draft that “extended a legal safe harbor to loans issued at prime interest rates to borrowers whose total debt-to-income ratio doesn’t exceed 43 percent.”
AFR Memo on CFPB’s 2013 Mortgage Rules
With new rules for mortgage lending and servicing due to be issued soon, the Bureau faces an important opportunity to make the housing market work better for families and communities.
Wide Range of Groups Oppose FHFA G-fee Proposal
FHFA’s proposal to charge more in states with consumer protections has elicited letters of strong opposition from housing and consumer advocates, members of Congress, legal and policy experts, Attorneys General, state legislators, and others.
AFR Letter on FHFA Guarantee Fees
In a joint letter, AFR and allied organizations challenge FHFA plan to charge higher guarantee fees in states with strong consumer protection laws.
Congressional Letter on Qualified Mortgages and Ability to Repay
In a letter to the Senate, 40 organizations ask the Senate to reject an amendment granting a legal safe harbor to all QM lenders.
Banks Want Legal Immunity for Unaffordable Loans. Tell Your Senator “No Way.”
Bank lobbyists plan to make the most of the lame-duck session of Congress that gets underway after the election. Almost before anyone has a chance to notice, they hope to pass an amendment undermining a crucial piece of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law —
AFR Letter: Keep Tabs on Racial Dimension of Mortgage Settlement
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 Carolina-based Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight, the working group pointed
AFR in the News: Consumer Groups Ask CFPB to Scrap Mortgage Rules as Inadequate
In an Oct. 9th letter to the CFPB, AFR criticized the bureau’s proposed rule for mortgage servicers, especially a provision allowing servicers to take a “dual-track” approach – considering a loan modification and pursuing foreclosure at the same time. The letter, co-signed by the NAACP,
This Week in Wall Street Reform
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