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Comment Letters

OCC Fair Access to Financial Services Comment Letter

Woodstock Institute requests that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) withdraw its proposed “Fair Access to Financial Services” proposal. This proposed rule inserts the government in countering free market forces, ignores the financial industry’s evolution of...

January 4, 2021 at 4:31 pm read more

Letter to OCC, FDIC, Fed: Use CRA to Address Racism

39 Illinois groups sent a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on June 5, 2020. It urges the federal banking regulators to use...

June 5, 2020 at 4:49 pm read more

Sign on Letter: CRA Addresses Racism

Sign on Letter: CRA Addresses Racism To be sent June 5, 2020 **Contact Jenna to sign on** Re: Community Reinvestment Act Addresses Racism Dear Chair Powell, Chair McWilliams & Acting Comptroller Brooks: We are writing you today in a...

June 4, 2020 at 10:31 am read more

Advocate Letter to Governor Pritzker Re: Payday Lenders taking Stimulus Payments

Sent April 9, 2020 Advocate Letter to Governor JB Prizker Re: Payday Lenders taking Stimulus Payments This letter is supported by: Illinois PIRG Heartland Alliance & Illinois Asset Building Group Woodstock Institute Shriver Center on Poverty Law Chicago Urban...

April 9, 2020 at 3:00 pm read more

Advocate Letter to Governor Pritzker re: Consumer Financial Protections

Sent March 30, 2020 Advocates encourage Governor Pritzker to: Protect Homeowners by Providing Mortgage Relief​ Expand Access to Safe, Affordable Credit Help Families Make Ends Meet by Suspending Debt Collection and Banking Fees View Letter The letter is supported...

March 30, 2020 at 4:17 pm read more

Comment Letter on OCC Calls to Advocates– January 27, 2020

Woodstock Institute Comment Letter on OCC Calls to Advocates– January 27, 2020

February 4, 2020 at 3:03 pm read more

Sign on Letter: Community Reinvestment Act Modernization 2020

Contact Brent at Badams@woodstockinst.org to add your organization to this sign-on letter. It urges the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reconsider their proposal, which would weaken the Community Reinvestment Act....

January 30, 2020 at 3:34 pm read more

Comment Letter on OCC/FDIC CRA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking– Woodstock Institute, CCLF January 28, 2020

Comment Letter on OCC/FDIC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Community Reinvestment Act Rules- Woodstock Institute, Chicago Community Loan Fund. Submitted before House Financial Services Committee Hearing on January 29, 2020.

January 29, 2020 at 2:21 pm read more

SAMPLE COMMENT: Responding to OCC/FDIC CRA Proposal

Sample Comment Letter Download as Word file. , 2020 Dear Comptroller Otting & Chair McWilliams: submits these comments in response to the OCC/FDIC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposal”) regarding the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). opposes the...

January 22, 2020 at 3:48 pm read more

Comment on the Just Housing Amendment Rules

Woodstock Comment to the Just Housing Amendment Rules

July 5, 2019 at 5:02 pm read more
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