by Eric J. Ellman | Dec 22, 2022
In December 2022, Urban Institute released a report, How Tenant Screening Services Disproportionately Exclude Renters of Color from Housing. I suspect that this report will add to the fodder for the ULC tenant screening committee next month, for state legislatures...
by Eric J. Ellman | Sep 27, 2022
In September 2022, U.S. Reps. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra asking the director for additional information about recent Bureau actions. McHenry is the ranking member of House Financial Services and Comer is...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jul 9, 2022
In March 2022, as noted in a press release, “[t]he American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and the NAACP filed a lawsuit…on behalf of the South Carolina NAACP. The case challenges South Carolina Court Administration’s categorical ban on automated...
by Eric J. Ellman | Nov 11, 2021
On Nov. 10, 2021, U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI), Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM),...
by Eric J. Ellman | Nov 4, 2021
On Nov. 4, 2021, the CFPB issued an Advisory Opinion on Fair Credit Reporting; Name-Only Matching Procedures, with a press release and a statement from Director Rohit Chopra both covering the release of the Advisory Opinion. Resources: Press release on the Advisory...
