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BK Live: Mortgage Inequities Segment
BK Live — Mark Winston Griffith (Brooklyn Movement Center Executive Director), David Reiss (Brooklyn Law School & refinblog.com), and Alexis Iwanisziw (New Economy Project) discuss mortgage inequities and how they affect Brooklyn (and beyond).
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American Banker: Courthouse ‘Rocket Dockets’ Give Debt Collectors Edge Over Debtors
American Banker — Early on a chilly Friday in January, Franklyn Williamson walked into courtroom 264B of the Prince George’s County, Md., district courthouse. An athletic 55-year-old realtor in Silver Spring, Williamson had canceled a Florida trip to appear in court that day.
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Groups in Four Key States Applaud End of Bank Payday Lending
Groups in four key banking states celebrated the end of bank payday lending, with the wave of announcements in recent weeks by Wells Fargo, US Bank, Fifth Third, and Regions Bank that they will each finally stop making predatory payday loans. Known as “direct deposit advance” loans, the banks’ payday loans carried triple-digit interest rates…
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Daily News: Banks Issue Fewest Conventional Mortgages in Minority Neighborhoods
Daily News — It took Dante Jones four years of living with his folks and working absurdly long hours to scrape together a $15,000 downpayment for a home in southeast Queens for himself, his fiancé and his six children. The city employee was pre-approved for a mortgage on a five-bedroom house in St. Albans last…
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Maps Reveal Stark Inequities in Mortgage Lending Based on Race in NYC
Mortgage lenders made markedly fewer conventional home mortgage loans in communities of color than in predominantly white neighborhoods in New York City, according to a series of GIS maps published today.
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Wall St. Journal: What J.P. Morgan’s $13 Bln Settlement Means for Neighborhoods, Struggling Homeowners
Wall Street Journal: Market Watch — The government wants J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., chastened by this week’s record-breaking settlement with the Justice Department, to focus on helping borrowers and neighborhoods that are struggling the most.
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Business Insider: JPMorgan Will Pay Record $13 Billion Settlement Over Mortgages
Business Insider — JPMorgan Chase will pay a $13 billion settlement to the government related to mortgages, according to a press release. It’s the largest settlement paid by a company to the government.
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Picture the Homeless Blog: Community Land Trusts are a Huge Success at Talking Transition – AND BEYOND
Picture the Homeless — Maybe we’re just a little giddy about the impending regime change here at home, but Picture the Homeless has been so excited to be part of the conversations taking place in the Talking Transition tent down on Canal Street at 6th Avenue.
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Northhattan: East Harlem May Seek Innovative Way to Fund Housing
Northhattan — A group of urban planners, academics and housing advocates hope to create a community land trust for East Harlem in an attempt to make not create increase options for real affordable housing options.
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Wall St. Journal: Financial Watchdog’s Key Tool: Consumers’ Complaints
Wall Street Journal — Thousands of consumer complaints about credit cards, home loans, debt collectors and payday loans are turning into a pivotal tool for a new federal consumer watchdog as it steps up scrutiny over the financial system.
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NBC Latino: A Loan Fund Gives DREAMers A Chance to Apply for Deferred Action
NBC Latino — Alejandra Salas doesn’t have any memories of Mexico. Her mother crossed the Mexican border bringing Salas, at the time 1, with her.
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