Press Releases

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – On Thursday, May 24, 2018, the Stop the Debt Trap Los Angeles, a coalition of consumer and civil rights advocates and faith leaders, will host a press conference in Los Angeles to rally behind the County’s anticipated release of a report that aims to curtail predatory lending. The advocates will also urge Los Angeles Assemblymembers to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions—S.J. Res 56 and H.J. Res 122—to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or consumer bureau) payday and car title lending rule will not advance in Congress, as their legislative clock has expired. The CFPB rule, finalized in October, establishes basic consumer protections on these 300% or more interest loans, including the...

Overdraft fees cost consumers $14 billion a year WASHINGTON, D.C. – Mick Mulvaney, who is unlawfully leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or the consumer bureau), recently announced that the agency will halt its rulemaking plan to address bank overdraft fee abuses. The announcement was made along with the agency’s updated spring agenda, which dropped an overdraft fee rule...

Savings Figures Could Flip to Fee Drain if Federal Threats to NC Consumer Protections Are Realized DURHAM, N.C. – A new Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) analysis breaks down the $457 million that North Carolinians save each year through an interest rate cap on predatory payday and car title loans, calculating the fees that residents of each county and Congressional...

SB 818 would renew mortgage and foreclosure safeguards, such as the right to appeal when a loan modification application is denied. SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Today, the California Senate passed SB 818, a bill to restore key provisions in California’s landmark “Homeowner’s Bill of Rights” (HBOR) legislation which passed in 2012 in response to the foreclosure crisis. HBOR has prevented thousands...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, education and consumer advocates convened outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to condemn the announced plan by Mick Mulvaney of the Trump Administration to dissolve the CFPB’s Office for Students and Young Consumers. Watch video of the press conference that included representatives from twelve states, DC, and the US Virgin Islands. "Mulvaney is shutting...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Mick Mulvaney, the unlawful Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), announced today that he is closing the Bureau’s Office of Students and folding it into the Office of Financial Education. The closure is the latest in a series of actions and proposals that threaten to undermine the consumer protections that have been put into...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass S.J. Res 57, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to undo the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) 2013 indirect auto lending guidance, which was put in place to limit the discriminatory impact of dealer interest rate markups in the auto lending market. This is a first-of-its-kind vote, abusing...

Only 12% of Marylanders think that U.S. Department of Education is doing a good job overseeing student loan servicers. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) released a poll showing that 91% of Maryland voters agree that the State of Maryland to has a responsibly to protect residents with student loan debt. This includes high level of...

50 years after the Fair Housing Act, racial mortgage disparities persist WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is both a historic driver of the nation's persistent racial wealth gap and a necessary part of any solution for the nation's housing market, finds new research from the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL). Although FHA has been and remains central in...