Examines the court records of borrowers taken to court by two companies now offering payday installment loans. These loans, which were made before the Payday Loan Reform Act (PLRA), show the types of abuses and aggressive litigation borrowers can...
Josh Silver and Marva Williams This paper focuses the increase in high cost consumer and home mortgage debt as a dangerous threat to asset preservation and examines the Consumer Rescue Fund, innovative program administered by the National CommunityReinvestment Coalition...
Lifetimeofassets_CFED_9-19-2006.ppt Marva Williams This presentation, presented at the 2006 CFED conference, presents findings from a recent Woodstock Institute/NCRC report framing consumer and home mortgage debt as a dangerous threat to asset preservation. It also examines the Consumer Rescue...
Mary Wisniewski Reporter September 11, 2006 Longtime Realtor Fred Medina doesn't want people to buy houses they can't afford. But he hates a new state regulation designed to thwart predatory lending that requires certain borrowers to receive financial...
Michael Bartlett Credit Union Journal September 4, 2006 A partnership between Fresno County FCU and the Fresno West Coalition for Economic Development (FWCED) has helped more than 50 lower-income people join the CU and begin building assets, according to...