April 29, 2025
Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
I signed on to this important letter, along with hundreds of others: 349 Consumer, Civil Rights, Labor, Legal Services and Community Organizations April 29, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC Re: Support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Dear Representative, … Continue reading
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March 26, 2025
Trump’s Plans to Privatize Fannie and Freddie
I was interviewed on WBUR-FM’s On Point (distributed by American Public Radio), hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti for an episode on How Trump Plans To Get Government out of the Mortgage Business. The link has the recording of the show as … Continue reading
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March 4, 2025
Protecting the CFPB’s Overdraft Fee Rule
I am a signatory to a letter being sent to the House’s Committee on Financial Services, in opposition to H.J. Res. 59 (Hill), CRA Resolution to Overturn CFPB Rule on Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions. The letter states, The … Continue reading
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January 27, 2023
Biden’s “Bill of Rights” for Renters
I was interviewed for a CBS in Austin (and other local Sinclair affiliates) news story, Biden Administration Proposes ‘Bill of Rights’ to Protect Renters in Tight Housing Market. The text of the story opens, Data shows that more than … Continue reading
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April 27, 2022
Sharing Your Home with Strangers
Debra Bechtel, Crystal Liu, Ernira Mehmetaj, and I have just posted Sharing Your Home with Strangers: Common-Interest Ownership and Financing Options to SSRN (as well as to bepress). The abstract reads, As the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. escalates, … Continue reading
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May 9, 2019
Financing The American Dream
I published Financing The American Dream in the May/June 2019 issue of the ABA’s Probate & Property magazine. it opens, Two movie scenes can bookend the last hundred years of housing finance. In Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (RKO … Continue reading
May 9, 2019 in CFPB | Permalink | No Comments
August 17, 2018
Fintech and Mortgage Lending
The Trump Administration released its fourth and final report on Nonbank Financials, Fintech, and Innovation in its A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunity series. The report differs from the previous three as it does not throw the Consumer Financial … Continue reading
