Letters to Regulators: Letter to Treasury on HAF Implementation
AFREF joined a letter to Treasury urging them to ensure accessibility, transparency, and accountability in the Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) program.
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News Release: Committee Tax Plan Falls Short of Need to Advance Racial and Economic Justice
Today, the House Ways and Means committee released its draft plan for the Build Back Better economic package. It includes many crucial spending items, and some positive tax provisions. But, overall, it fails to meet the moment. Among other things, the package leaves out revenue-raising proposals from the Biden administration that would advance racial and economic justice. We need more dramatic change to the status quo, which benefits Wall Street and the super-rich and harms the rest of us.
Letters to Congress: Support Progressive Revenue Raisers to Rein in CEO Pay and Pay for Vital Public Investments
AFR joined a letter to Congress urging support for tax proposals to rein in CEO Pay while investing in our recovery.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to NIST on Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias within Artificial Intelligence
AFREF joined a letter to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in response to their request for comment on their Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias within Artificial Intelligence.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to FHFA in Response to Request for Comment on Policy Statement on Fair Lending
AFREF joined several other civil rights, consumer advocacy and housing organizations in sending a letter a comment letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) in response to their request for comment on their Policy Statement on Fair Lending (“Policy Statement”). The letter emphasizes that FHFA’s fair lending oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac must ensure access to mortgage credit on fair terms for all creditworthy borrowers, regardless of their race, gender, national origin, disability, familial status, or other protected characteristics, which is essential to closing the homeownership and wealth gaps created by exclusionary federal housing policies and ongoing discrimination in the housing marketplace.
Letters to Congress: Letter Urging Congress to Focus on Affordable Homeownership in Budget Reconciliation
AFR joined a letter urging Congressional leaders to make sure that policies across the housing continuum are comprehensively included in the Budget Reconciliation Bill, especially those with a strong focus on affordable homeownership.
Letters to Regulators: Letter in Support of HUD’s Proposed Rule to Reinstate the Discriminatory Effects Standard
AFREF joined a letter in support of HUD’s Proposed Rule to reinstate the discriminatory effects standard.
Letters to Regulators: Letter in Support of HUD’s Proposed Rule to Reinstate the Discriminatory Effects Standard
AFREF and 37 organizations sent a letter in support of HUD’s Proposed Rule to reinstate the discriminatory effects standard.
Letters to Regulators: Letter Commenting on HUD’s Mortgage Letter 2021-18
AFREF joined a letter to comment on HUD’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through Mortgage Letter 2021-18. The letter calls on HUD to take further steps to ensure that its program operates as intended and that borrowers are able to obtain the relief they need to avoid unnecessary foreclosures.
Letters to Congress: Letter to Nancy Pelosi Making it Clear that the President does have the Authority to Cancel Student Debt
AFR joined a letter to Speaker Pelosi making it clear that the President does have the authority to cancel student debt.