April
2014
30
Oneida Daily Dispatch — New York’s chief judge on Wednesday proposed new filing requirements for debt collectors that he says will bring more fairness to state consumer cases and put them in line with due process.
April
2014
30
American Banker — New York’s chief judge is trying to reform the way banks and third parties sue borrowers over unpaid bills, joining a wave of regulatory efforts to fix widespread problems in the debt-collection industry.
April
2014
11
The Huffington Post — “How can you pay your debt, if you can’t get a job?” That’s the straight-forward question Council Member Debi Rose asked on the steps of New York’s City Hall on Friday, as she stood up as a lead sponsor of legislation which would ban discrimination against job applicants and employees based on their personal credit histories.
April
2014
9
New York Foundation — A conversation with Sam Miller of Picture the Homeless.
March
2014
26
New York Post — Manhattan’s residential real-estate scene is roaring back — but don’t look across the river. The shadow of the foreclosure crisis is fading fast in tony enclaves like the Upper East Side, where home prices spiked 36 percent in the first quarter.
March
2014
26
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February
2014
13
BK Live — Mark Winston Griffith (Brooklyn Movement Center Executive Director), David Reiss (Brooklyn Law School & refinblog.com), and Alexis Iwanisziw (New Economy Project) discuss mortgage inequities and how they affect Brooklyn (and beyond).
February
2014
11
American Banker — Early on a chilly Friday in January, Franklyn Williamson walked into courtroom 264B of the Prince George’s County, Md., district courthouse. An athletic 55-year-old realtor in Silver Spring, Williamson had canceled a Florida trip to appear in court that day.
January
2014
31
Groups in four key banking states celebrated the end of bank payday lending, with the wave of announcements in recent weeks by Wells Fargo, US Bank, Fifth Third, and Regions Bank that they will each finally stop making predatory payday loans. Known as “direct deposit advance” loans, the banks’ payday loans carried triple-digit interest rates and trapped lower income borrowers in a damaging cycle of debt.
January
2014
31
Daily News — It took Dante Jones four years of living with his folks and working absurdly long hours to scrape together a $15,000 downpayment for a home in southeast Queens for himself, his fiancé and his six children. The city employee was pre-approved for a mortgage on a five-bedroom house in St. Albans last year, but just as he was expecting to close, the bank backed out of the deal.