Discrimination and Bias in Residential Lending
The Importance of Assessment Areas
What Happened? Building on the 2021 announcement of the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (“PAVE”) and a series of federal agency actions in the intervening months, 2024 brings new efforts at...more
We join the nation in mourning the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Over her 20-year career before appointment to the D.C. circuit court, Justice Ginsburg fought for equal rights in the workplace, among...more
Since early June 2020 when cries for racial justice resulted in a period of social unrest in the U.S., federal and state financial institution regulators have taken meaningful, proactive steps to acknowledge financial...more
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which is comprised of the OCC, FRB, FDIC, NCUA, CFPB, and a state liaison committee, issued guidance addressing the applicability of federal consumer protection laws to...more