Headline News Archive

2022

January

06

• Credit bureaus drew more than half of consumer complaints. A new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reveals that more than half of the complaints the agency has received from the public from

• Here’s what pandemic aid remains available. There continues to be billions of dollars in federal rental assistance accessible to tenants who’ve fallen behind. The National Low Income

2021

December

27

• Many home insurance premiums are rising. Across the country, homeowners renewing their policies are discovering that rising material costs, supply chain disruptions and climate change are combining to drive premiums up

16

• The return of the 10-minute eviction. Nobody in Phoenix was better or more practiced at the business of eviction than Lennie, who had personally removed more than 20,000 Arizonans from their homes

15

• Global investors gobbling up first-time homebuyer homes. Over the past six years, 19 of the 32 homes on Tammy Sue Lane have been purchased by a billion-dollar investment venture, part of an unprecedented flow

08

• What you need to know if you’re being tracked down by a debt collector. What proof does a debt collector have to provide me that I owe the debt? This “debt collection validation notice” should include enough

01

• New rule will let debt collectors track you down on social media. Debt collection rules have expanded the ways debt collectors can chase down debtors. In practice, it may mean millions of consumers can now be bombarded

November

07

• Last chance to get advance child tax credit. It could be a financial lifeline just in time for the holidays — a child tax credit payment to cover food, rent or presents for

October

22

• Justice Department to expand redlining investigation efforts. The Justice Department announced Friday a cross-government effort to investigate and prosecute redlining, the practice of banks discriminating against racial minorities or certain neighborhoods. It

04

• Senate confirms Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Senate narrowly approved President Joe Biden's pick to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, giving the bureau a director* who is likely to

September

29

• Freddie Mac finds ‘pervasive’ bias in home appraisal industry. A study from the federal housing finance agency Freddie Mac adds to a growing body of research that finds racism in the appraisal

13

• How you pay the rent may help your mortgage application. Later this month, a group of renters in the United States will get a new break when they try to become homeowners: Their history of

02

• New York extends eviction moratorium to January. New York State lawmakers agreed to extend sweeping protections against evictions into next year. The new agreement, which extends the moratorium through Jan.15 and was

August

26

• About 89% of rental assistance funds have not been distributed. The Emergency Rental Assistance Program, funded in the two federal pandemic relief packages passed over the last year, sputtered along in July, with just $1.7 billion

19

• CFPB keeps pressure on mortgage companies to help homeowners. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has warned mortgage servicers to take proactive steps to assist borrowers, including dedicating resources and staffers to stay in contact

17

• Is there racism in the deed to your home?. Racial covenants were used across the United States, and though they are now illegal, the ugly language remains in countless property records. In Seattle and

08

• The stigma of a scarlet E. Eviction cases are a stubborn blot on any renter’s history. They are nearly impossible to scrub away, even if the tenant made good

03

• Biden administration moves to block evictions in most of U.S.. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a moratorium on evictions for 60 days for U.S. counties with “substantial and high

• CDC issues new eviction ban for most of US through Oct. 3. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday issued a new moratorium on evictions that would last until October 3, as the Biden administration sought

• After the eviction moratorium, here’s what renters need to know. Tenants of single-family homes financed by the federal government, specifically the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, are still protected through

02

• A tsunami of deferred debt is about to hit homeowners. While Congress approved $10 billion in federal assistance to help homeowners pay off debt, the program is moving so slowly that protections are expiring before states

• Pelosi pide a Biden extender moratoria a desahucios. La presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, y otros legisladores demócratas exhortaron el domingo al gobierno del presidente Joe

01

• Pandemic eviction crisis leads to greater tenant protections. In a mostly empty conference room at a Virginia cultural arts center, Tara Simmons was looking for someone who might help her stave off eviction.

July

30

• Evictions looming, Biden fails to get Congress to extend ban. A nationwide eviction moratorium is set to expire Saturday after President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress worked furiously but ultimately failed to align on

28

• AP-NORC poll: Inequity in community support for older adults. Many Americans believe their communities are doing a good job meeting the needs of older adults, but white people may be better equipped than people