Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of the Real Estate Valuation Fairness and Improvement Act of 2021
AFR joined a letter to Congress in support of the Real Estate Valuation Fairness and Improvement Act of 2021.
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Letters to Congress: Letter Asking for Commitment to Nominating Professionally Diverse Candidates to Federal District Courts
AFR joined a letter to the Senate asking for commitment to supporting President Biden’s goal of nominating professionally diverse candidates for federal district courts by fulfilling his request to recommend public defenders, civil rights lawyers, and public interest lawyers when judicial vacancies occur in their states. The letter explains that if the American public is to maintain faith in our judicial system, it is critical that we restore balance to a bench where former corporate lawyers and prosecutors are so heavily overrepresented.
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of Two Language Access Bills
AFR organized a letter of support for two bills expanding and improving language access for mortgage transactions that will make important strides in improving access to the mortgage market and awareness of the availability of assistance for homeowners who are struggling to keep up with their mortgage payments. LEP borrowers face many challenges that impede their full participation in the consumer marketplace, including, specifically, their ability to obtain and preserve ownership of a home. Tracking and transferring the language preference of LEP borrowers and enhancing the availability and use of services and resources in their preferred languages will significantly improve market access for LEP borrowers at all stages of a mortgage loan.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to CFPB and FTC to Prevent Evictions and Foreclosures
AFREF joined a letter urging the CFPB and the FTC to take immediate action to prevent or limit imminent rental evictions and home foreclosures in the private mortgage market.
News Release: South Carolina Plant Suffers Layoffs at Hands of Corporation Despite PPP Loans
A South Carolina tire factory owned by a global corporation received a substantial loan from the Small Business Administration for pandemic relief while many genuinely small businesses — especially those owned by people of color and women — were unable to access the program.
New Report: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: How a global tire titan got millions in pandemic small business loans
Case study of a South Carolina tire factory owned by a global corporation that received a substantial loan from the Small Business Administration for pandemic relief while many genuinely small businesses were unable to access the program.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to FHFA on Appraisals
AFREF joined a letter to FHFA on the importance of accurate and reliable appraisals and putting in place safeguards to protect against improper valuations and racial discrimination.
Letters to Regulators: Letter to the CFPB to Prevent Covid Foreclosures
AFREF joined a letter urging the CFPB to take immediate action to prevent a wave of Covid-19-related foreclosures, likely to be concentrated in low-income communities and communities of color.
Statement: AFR Mourns Passing of Civil Rights Legend John Lewis
AFR joins the Civil Rights Movement and the nation in mourning the passing of John Lewis. We celebrate his leadership, his outsized contributions to the struggle for racial and economic justice – until the very end of his life – and his steadfastness in demanding and defending a more robust democracy. His work as a legislator with a strong moral compass advanced all these strands of work and highlighted the relationship between them all.
News Release: Opportunity Zones will worsen affordable housing crisis, displace Black and Brown residents
The Opportunity Zone tax break is likely to exacerbate the affordable housing crisis and displace residents of color and lower-income residents while rewarding rich real estate investors with a lucrative tax break, according to a new report by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Institute, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Kansas City Tenants, and New York Communities for Change.