New Orleans In negotiating with sub-prime companies and mortgage lending servicers and bankers, I have occasionally made the joke about one of the longest weeks of my life was one day in Orange County when several California ACORN leaders, the director of the ACORN Financial Justice Center, the director of counseling for ACORN Housing, …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Child Support for Children
New Orleans Erik Eckholm did a piece for the New York Times that we read carefully in light of the ACORN asset building program through our expanded ACORN Access Centers that are trying to achieve maximum eligible participation of lower income families. In many ways this is truly bizarre. There is $105 Billion owed …
Big Win at HSBC on RALs
New Orleans A signature effort of the campaign conducted by ACORN with tax preparers over the last 4-5 years has been to either eliminate Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) and similar products from the marketplace or failing to do that, reduce the predatory pricing that drives the product. In our the agreements to settle this …