www.responsiblelending.org
The Center for Responsible Lending is a unit of the Center for Community Self-Help (Self-Help), based in
Durham
,
NC
. Self-Help is one of the nation's leading community development lenders and has provided $3.5 billion in financing to help more than 40,000 under-served families own homes or small businesses.
www.mortgagebankers.org/IndustryResources/ResourceCenters
/PredatoryLending The Mortgage Bankers Association’s predatory lending website contains reports and links to state and local legislative updates concerning predatory lending.
www.acorn.org
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 175,000 member families organized into 850 neighborhood chapters in 80 cities across the country. Since 1970 ACORN has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to its members. Its priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. Their website contains links and reports on predatory lending, as well as ways to combat it.
www.nclc.org
The National Consumer Law Center is a nonprofit advocacy organization that seeks to build economic security and family wealth for low-income and other economically disadvantaged Americans. We promote access to quality financial services and protect family assets from unfair and exploitive transactions that wipe out resources and undermine self-sufficiency. For over 40 years NCLC has used its expertise to write the rules of a fair marketplace.
http://naihc.net
National American Indian Housing Council promotes, supports, and upholds tribes and tribal housing agencies in their efforts to provide culturally-relevant, decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing for Native people in American Indian communities and Alaska Native villages. They provide training, technical assistance, research, communications and advocacy.
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