A coalition of civil rights and consumer advocacy groups has filed an amicus brief in federal district court seeking to stop the motion filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to vacate its $105,000 redlining settlement with the mortgage company...
A bill that would codify federal disparate impact standards ahead of a possible rollback by President Trump of those standards has been introduced in the New York State legislature. The Gothamist reports the bill would ensure the disparate impact standard could be...
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is charging a homeowners association with violating the Fair Housing Act by allegedly creating rules designed to prevent Black residents from using housing choice vouchers within the master planned community of...
Detroit-headquartered Rocket Mortgage, a part of Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), announced that is suing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to correct what is claimed to be “conflicts between the government’s regulations requiring appraiser...
A federal court has approved a $2.3 million settlement that resolves charges that SafeRent, an artificial intelligence (AI) screening tool used by landlords, used its algorithm scores to determine if a rental housing applicant using vouchers should be approved as a...
Equifax Says Nearly 2,000 Mortgage Firms Used Its VantageScore Offer
