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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

October 2, 2025

Retrenchment and Rollback: Federal Consumer Protection and Housing

By David Reiss

I will be speaking on Retrenchment and Rollback: Federal Consumer Protection and Housing in an ABA Professor’s Corner webinar on October 14th at 12:30 ET with Kathleen Engel, Suffolk Law School Rosa Newman, Elon School of Law Julie Patterson Forrester … Continue reading

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April 29, 2025

Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By David Reiss

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

By David Reiss

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

By David Reiss

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

By David Reiss

  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

By David Reiss

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

By David Reiss

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

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