Financial Reform

I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance.

We are on a mission to restore consumer protection, fair housing and a real chance to achieve the American dream to millions of working families.

Especially for the millions of qualified prospective minority home buyers who are often locked out of the market.

I’m fighting to reform the housing finance system to ensure that underserved minority borrowers in our more challenged neighborhoods have access to mortgages, insurance, fair appraisals, and fair inspections to give them a real chance at home ownership. 

As Chairman, I’m exposing and attacking the insidious and racist practice of red-lining in minority neighborhoods.

For far too long, lenders, insurance companies and appraisers have been allowed to write off entire sections of American cities and the good people who live there, as disposable.

That’s racist, that’s wrong, and it needs to end.

We are going to close the home ownership gap.

And under the leadership of my great friend, Chairwoman Maxine Waters, the Financial Services Committee is also shining a bright light on the national disgrace of homelessness in America.

We are fighting for emergency housing, transistional housing, and millions of affordable housing units for low and moderate income families across this country.

That's why I'm proud to sponsor/cosponsor and support:

H.R.3958 — The FHA Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2019, which would make necessary reforms to improve compliance with loss mitigation requirements by servicers of mortgages for single family housing insured by the FHA and to prevent foreclosures on FHA borrowers.

H.R.3620 — The Strategy and Investment in Rural Housing Preservation Act of 2019, recently passed by the U.S House, which would provide $1 billion in rental assistance to low-income tenants in certain multifamily rural housing projects financed by the Rural Housing Service of the Department of Agriculture, and to develop and implement a plan for preserving the affordability of rural rental housing.  The bill also establishes a permanent Housing Preservation and Revitalization Program.

H.R.3619 — The Appraisal Reform Act of 2019, recently passed by the U.S. House, which would amend the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to provide the Appraisal Subcommittee with the authority to modify annual registry fees for  appraisal management companies, to maintain a registry of trainees and charge a lower trainee registry fee, and to allow grants to States to assist appraiser and potential appraiser compliance with the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria,  

 H.R.1690 —The Carbon Monoxide Leading Every Resident to Safety Act of 2019, which would require the installation of carbon monoxide alarms or detectors in all federally assisted housing.

 H.R.1856 — The Ending Homelessness Act of 2019, which would provide a path to end homelessness in the United States.

 H.R.2930 — The Loan Shark Prevention Act, which would protect consumers from unlawful usury.

H.R.1500 — The Consumers First Act, which would revise provisions related to the administration of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) including establishing requirements for staffing levels, political apppointees, and the publication of consumer complaints regarding consumer financial products or services.

H.R.1595 — The SAFE Banking Act of 2019, which would create federal protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to cannabis-related legitimate businesses and service providers for such businesses.