Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of the Payment Choice Act of 2021
AFR joined a letter to the House of Representatives in support of the Payment Choice Act.
Tag Archives: racial justice
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of Julia Gordon’s Nomination for FHA Commissioner
AFR and 80 organizations sent a letter in support of Julia Gordon’s nomination for FHA Commissioner.
Letters to Congress: Letter of Support for Dave Uejio as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development
AFR joined a letter to Congress in support of the nomination of Dave Uejio as Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Letters to Congress: Letter Urging for Extension of the CDC’s Eviction Moratorium
AFR joined a letter to Congress urging for an extension of the CDC’s eviction moratorium.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to OMB in Response to Racial Equity RFI
AFREF joined a letter to the Office of Management and Budget in response to their RFI asking for input on how to identify effective methods for assessing whether agency policies, programs, services, processes, and operations equitably serve all eligible individuals and communities, particularly those that are currently and historically underserved.
Letters to Regulators: Joint Letter on Use of AI
AFREF joined partners in sending a letter with detailed recommendations in response to the joint RFI on financial institutions’ use of AI and ML.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to the Department of Education on Topics for Upcoming Negotiated Rulemaking
AFREF joined a letter urging the Department of Education to include several topics that would protect borrowers in the upcoming negotiated rulemaking.
Letter to the Administration: Letter Calling for Faster Pace in Appointing Financial Regulatory Positions
AFR sent a letter urging the Biden Administration to take a faster pace in filling key regulatory and financial policy positions. The letter calls out how the Administration’s slow pace in these appointments has undermined its racial justice and climate change agendas.
Letters to Regulators: Letter Urging Financial Regulators to Consider Fair Lending Risks in Use of Artificial Intelligence
AFREF and 22 organizations submitted comments in response to the regulators’ Request for Information and Comment on Financial Institutions’ Use of Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning, urging the financial regulators to consider fair lending risks of using artificial intelligence and machine learning and enact safeguards to prevent disproportionate adverse impacts from the use of AI/ML models.
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of the Improving FHA Support for Small Dollar Mortgages Act
AFREF, NCLC, CRL and NHLP sent a letter in support of the Improving FHA Support for Small Dollar Mortgages Act. This bill will increase access to sustainable mortgage lending for homebuyers who are buying homes with sale prices under $100,000.