Civil Rights Groups Want Foreclosure Moratorium
WASHINGTON, DC – April 4, 2007 – National civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Council of La Raza, and the Center for Responsible Lending called today for mortgage lenders, loan servicers and loan investors to institute an immediate six-month moratorium on subprime home foreclosures resulting from reckless and unaffordable loans in the subprime market. The groups want to stop home losses for families that received unaffordable subprime mortgages with "payment shock." The predominant loan type