It is not surprising that someone who collects speeding tickets like baseball cards would face high auto insurance premiums. After all, insurance prices are meant to relate to the risk of loss associated with the policyholder and, also, to...
20160420 Accion Chicago Small Business Presentation Final.pdf Presented by Dory Rand and Spencer Cowan at an Accion Chicago forum.
…Brent Adams, a lobbyist for the Woodstock Institute in Chicago that does research on fair lending practices, said that he’s not surprised by opposition to the bill. “We have observed that some of these alternative lenders offer loans on...
by Bruce Rushton A bill to regulate online lenders that target small businesses with loans that can carry more than 100-percent annual interest rates is moving, albeit slowly, through the Illinois General Assembly. …Brent Adams, a lobbyist for the...
Many people are familiar with only one aspect of Woodstock Institute’s work. For example, housing advocates may know us best for our foreclosure and mortgage lending research and housing data. Policymakers presented with one of our reports or fact...
Woodstock, along with 3,000 others, provided the DOL with comments when the DOL proposed the rule in April of last year. The bulk of the Fiduciary Rule takes effect on April 10, 2017. Today, without the rule, financial professionals...
The bill on which we have spent the most time this session is SB 2804, and we have worked closely with our ally, the Illinois Asset Building Group. The bill, which is sponsored by Senator Daniel Biss, would amend...
20160318 Dory Rand NCRC.pdf Presented by Dory Rand at the 2016 National Community Reinvestment Coalition conference in Washington, DC.
Woodstock was pleased to lead a large and diverse delegation of NCRC members and nonprofit leaders from Illinois on Capitol Hill visits with our Illinois elected officials as part of NCRC’s largest and most successful 25th anniversary conference. We...
Despite the fact that the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the organization that held mortgages on about 258,000 properties in Chicago, is exempt from the registration requirement, the amendment has resulted in an increase of over 2,100 buildings registered as...