Media Coverage

NEDAP receives frequent coverage in print and broadcast media.  Below are some recent examples of NEDAP in the media.* Most articles are in PDF.

2012

• El Diario/La Prensa, 1/31/12, Queens: condado más afectado por crisis hipotecaria

• Crain's New York Business, 1/30/12, Number of NY Homeowners in Distress Seen as High

• Daily News, 1/30/12, New York Homeowners are in Major Distress, Study Finds

• WNYC News Blog, 1/30/12, Housing Groups Warn Homeowners Still Struggling

• Politics on the Hudson, 1/30/12, Non-profits, lawmakers want foreclosure-prevention funds in budget

• Business Insider, 1/25/2012, No Matter What Brian Moynihan Says, People Are Still Calling For Bank Of America's Break-Up

• Beyond The Pale (WBAI-FM), 1/22/2012 , Sham Trade Schools and Student Loan Debt

• The New York Times, 1/8/2012, Queens Broker Is Accused of Bringing Immigrants’ Ruin

2011

• NEDAP in the News - 2011 Snapshot

• The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC-FM), 12/23/2012, Who Will Pay

• Reuters, 12/18/2012, Modification blunders bedevil U.S. housing recovery

• Crain's New York Business, 11/17/2011, Mexican billionaire banking on New York's poor

• The Capitol, and City Hall, 11/14/2011, Loan Ranger

• Huffington Post, 11/5/2011, The Procrastinator's Guide to Bank Transfer Day

• Occupied Media, 10/31/11, #OWS interview and teach-in series

• Let's Talk About It!, 10/26/2011, Abusive Debt Collection Practices and Your Rights Under the FDCPA (start at 39:10 min)

• It's the Economy (KGNU-FM), 10/6/2011, on Occupy Wall Street movement (start at 12:15 min.)

• Crain's New York Business, 10/6/2011, Residential foreclosures plummet in NYC

• The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC-FM), 10/3/2011, Credit Unions and You

• The Mary Davis Show, 9/25/2011, on need for equitable financial system

• The Journey Home (KSFR-FM), 9/23/2011, on foreclosure crisis and discriminatory use of credit reports in employment

• It's the Economy (KGNU-FM), 9/23/2011, on impact of foreclosure crisis on communities

• KVOT-AM Radio, 9/19/2011 on foreclosure crisis

• The Surreal News Show ( WSLR), 9/2/2011, on harmful impact of employers' use of credit checks on people and communities of color.  (Interview starts at 14 min.)

• Wakeup Call (WBAI-FM), 8/23/2011, on national mortgage foreclosure settlement.

• City Limits, 8/15/2011, Foreclosure Crisis Fades to Black and Brown

• WNYC-FM, 6/13/2011, New Court Rule Drives Down Foreclosures in NYC

• The Buffalo News, 6/5/2011, 'Payday loans' bill draws heated debate

• New York Daily News, 6/5/2011, Home sweet foreclosed home: Queens man returns to home after judge overrules bank's foreclosure

• American Banker, 6/2/2011, Consumer Groups Call N.Y. Plan an Invitation to Usury

• City Limits, 5/31/2011, Albany Bill Would Let Check-Cashers Provide Loans

• Windy City Media Group, 5/20/2011, Local Man with HIV Prompts Nationwide Change in Chase Bank Fees

• Bronx News Network, 5/20/2011, The Fight for Consumer Protections Comes to a Check Casher Near You

• Albany Times Union, 5/20/2011, Farley promises to amend check casher loans

• Huffington Post, 5/17/2011, Protesters At JPMorgan Shareholder Meeting Demand Action On Foreclosures, Human Rights

• Charlotte Business Journal, 5/11/2011, Bank of America's annual meeting (mostly) quiet

• National Mortgage Professional, 5/2/2011, Report Finds Credit-Impaired Minorities Have Limited Access to Mortgages

• Crain's New York Business,  4/28/2011, Refinancings plummeted in minority areas

• The New York Times, 4/24/2011, Fallout From a Poor Credit Score

• The Forum South, 4/21/2011, Free Help for Struggling Homeowners

• YourNabe.com, 4/21/2011, Jamaica Estates home gets OK for expansion

• Bed-Stuy Patch, 3/08/2011, Vann Introduces Bill, Demands Banks be Held Accountable

• Crain's New York, 3/07/2011, Calling on banks to do more for neighborhoods

• The Wall Street Journal, 3/04/2011, Lien Plan Set to Aid Owners

• Crain's New York, 1/31/2011, Walmart: 20% rise in NYers' spending at local stores

• Times NewsWeekly, 1/28/2011, Elmhurst Project’s Impact Is Debated

• Marketplace, 1/10/2011, New bank fees are aimed at lower income customers

• New York Law Journal, 1/4/2011, Claims Held Sufficient for Suit to Proceed Over Sewer Service.

2010

• New York Post , 12/17/2010, Banks to Fed: Water down mortgage rule

• The Brooklyn Ink, 12/15/2010, Under Water: Brooklyn Residents Battle JP Morgan to Keep Their Homes

• NEDAP 2010 Media Snapshot

• The Huffington Post, 11/30/2010, NYC Needs a Responsible Banking Act

• WBAI 99.5FM, 11/11/2010, Wakeup Call

• El Diario, 11/4/2010, Reembolsos para los Inmigrantes

• GritTV with Laura Flanders, 10/28/2010, Fighting Foreclosure Fraud

• Al Jazeera English, 10/27/2010, Foreclosure abuses by Bank of America

• The Huffington Post, 10/23/2010, The Flaw: Examining the Roots of Economic Malaise

• NBC Today Show, 10/19/2010, Debt Collectors and You: The Dangers of Debt Buyers

• WNYC 93.9 FM, 10/15/2010, Foreclosure freeze

• NBC New York, 10/14/2010, How NOT to Get Ripped Off On Your Mortgage

• Al Jazeera English, 10/13/2010, US banks face mortgage probe

• Crain's New York, 10/8/2010, Bank of America calls time out on foreclosures

• WWRL 1600 AM, 10/7/2010, Redlining Returns

• WNYC 93.9 FM, 10/4/2010, Financial 411: More Lenders Suspend Foreclosures

• Crain's New York, 10/3/2010, Southeast Queens is foreclosure central

• WBAI 99.5 FM, 10/1/2010, You and Your Money

• Queens Chronicle, 9/9/2010, Civic Forum Informs Area Property Owners

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 8/23/2010, Check Cashing Stores: Will They Soon Make Loans?

• NY1 News, 8/16/2010, How a Reverse Mortgage Can Help or Harm an Older Homeowner

• Pro Publica, 8/10/2010, New York Jumps Ahead of Feds With Law Holding Mortgage Companies Accountable on Mods

• Buffalo News, 8/9/2010, Rent to Own Law Worries Consumer Advocates

• Crain's New York, 8/5/2010, IRS Takes a Stick to High-Interest Refund Loans

• New York Daily News, 8/5/2010, article on new state Rent-to-Own law

• Buffalo News, 7/29/2010, Both Sides Weigh In On Rent-to-Own Bill

• Buffalo News, 7/15/2010, Proposal on Buying of Old Debt Opposed, Plan Aims to Prevent Abusive Tactics

• New York Law Journal, 7/9/2010, Measure Opposed by Bankers' Group Would Allow Ownwers to Recover Attorney's Fees in Foreclosures

• City Limits, 7/1/2010, Help (Still) Wanted: Banks go slow on fixing bad home loans

• WWRL Morning Show, 6/22/2010, on collection abuses by the debt buying industry.

• Univision, 6/20/2010, Cuidado con la unificacion de deuda

• New York Daily News, 6/20/2010, Rein in wild debt collectors: Thousands of New Yorkers are being unfairly targeted

• PRNewswire, 6/16/10, New Yorkers Harmed by Debt Collection Abuses Speak Out

• The New York Times, 5/30/10, Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Economic Gains

• City Limits , 5/27/10, Report: Fraud Common Among Top Debt Buyer

• The Washington Post, 5/25/10, How debt buyers prety on the disadvantaged: A report

• Collections & Credit Risk, 5/25/10, New Report Examines Debt Collection Abuses

• Reuters blog, 5/25/10, The Sleazy World of Predatory Debt Buyers

• Crain's New York, 5/24/10, Study: Debt collectors typically violate state law

• The Daily Record, 5/20/10, TARP banks cut lending to Rochester minorities

• Democracy Now!, 5/19/10, Protesters Rally at N.Y. Offices of JPMorgan Chase

• Euronews, 5/19/10, New York Community Housing Organisations Demonstration

• Life, 5/18/10, Demonstrators Protest Outside JPMorgan Chase's Annual Shareholders Meeting

• New York Daily News, 5/16/10, Bank on their bad behavior: Bailed-out financial institutions are repaying us in the worst ways

• City Limits, 5/14/10, Banks Redline Minority Communities Again

• CNBC, 5/13/10, Crisis Cut US Minority Mortgage Access: Study

• AOL Housing Watch, 5/13/10, Refinancing Bias: Does Race Play a Role?

• Marketplace Morning Report, 5/13/10, on decline of prime mortgage lending in communities of color.

• Crain's New York, 4/28/10, Chase exits controversial 'rapid refund' lending

• Marketplace , 4/27/10, Stricter credit impacts rapid tax refund

• LegislativeGazette.com, 4/26/10, Crackdown sought on debt scams and foreclosure abuse

• Grit-TV with Laura Flanders, 4/23/10, Foreclosures & Financial Reform

• Americans for Financial Reform, 4/22/10, New York Leaders Rally for Real Financial Reform

• WWRL Morning Show with Errol Louis, 4/15/10, on mortgage lending discrimination

• The Washington Post, 4/15/10, Cracking down on unscrupulous tax-return preparers

• CounterPunch, 4/2/10, Obama's Economic Brain Trust

• The Washington Independent, 3/31/10, Refund Anticipation Loans Continue to Harm
  Low-Income Taxpayers

• Center for NYC Affairs panel , 2/25/10, Banking Under the Mattress: Financial Literacy and Unbanked New Yorkers

• Finance Tech, 2/25/10, New York City's Underbanked Population: Growing and Mistrustful of Banks

• In These Times, 2/19/10, Open Season on Working Poor, as Tax Day Nears

• WNYC, 2/8/10, Morning Edition

• El Diario La Prensa , 2/8/10, Bushwick is dying

• El Diario La Prensa, 2/8/10, Bushwick se muere

• El Diario La Prensa , 2/3/10, The fallacy of instant money

• Univision 41, 2/3/10, Nuevas reglas en tarjetas de crédito

• Bronx News Network, 1/28/10, Usurious Tax-Time Loans Drained $22.5 Million from the Bronx in Just One Year

• Caribbean Life, 1/27/10, Tax-time, multimillion-dollar rip-offs

• WalletPop, 1/18/10, Dirty tricks of debt collection: What you need to know

• Women's eNews, 1/15/10, Women's Key to Home Ownership Opened Debt Trap

2009

• The New York Times, 12/30/09, Suit Claims Fraud by New York Debt Collectors

• New York Daily News, 12/27/09, He burst the bubble! Real estate speculator Lloyd Varma defaulted on 20 loans for 10 Queens homes

• El Diario La Prensa , 12/17/09, Mayor protección contra embargo hipotecario

• The Epoch Times, 12/16/09, Demonstrators Demand Compensation in Front of Goldman Sachs Building

• Stargazette.com, 12/15/09, Paterson signs stronger laws on home foreclosures

• The Business Insider, 12/7/09, Debt Collectors Raiding Coffers of Homeowners with Second Mortgages

• Staten Island Advance, 12/6/09, Homeowners are getting hit a second time

• ABC World News with Charles Gibson, 11/25/09, Judge Voids Mortgage Payment

• The New York Times, 11/19/09, Study Shows Link Between Segregation and Subprime Loans

• LegislativeGazette.com, 11/3/09, Lawmakers hear testimony about mortgage fraud

• New York Daily News, 11/1/09, Water liens could trigger rash of foreclosures on low-income housing units

• La Raza, 10/19/09, Casero negligente pierde viviendas

• Grit-TV with Laura Flanders, 10/20/09, Still Waiting on our Bailout

• City Limits, 10/12/09, Mortgage and the Mayor: Candidates on Foreclosure

• Queens Chronicle, 10/8/09, C.B. 10 Talks Racino and Foreclosures Issues

• The New York Times, 10/6/09, The Hidden Price of Prepaid Debit

• The Queens Courier, 9/15/09, Program to protect homeowners to expire

• Democratic Dialogue, 8/25/09, Interview on financial regulatory reform, with host Maria Luna

• The Hellenic News of America, 8/20/09, Rep. Maloney: Today's Credit Card Reforms "the Beginning of the End of Unfair Practices by Card Issuers"

• City Limits, 8/18/09, On Exhibit: Housing Folly and Failure

• Feet In 2 Worlds, 8/13/09, Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York Continue to Reel From
  Mortgage Foreclosures and Job Losses

• Staten Island Real-Time News, 8/1/09, Deep in debt and the calls won't stop for Staten Islanders

• Credit Union Times, 7/29/09, Myths About Serving Immigrants

• WBAI-Radio - Evening News, 7/14/09, on impending consumer protection regulations

• WOR-News Talk Radio 710, 7/14/09, Taking a "Bite" Out of Morgan Stanley

• The Epoch Times, 7/9/09, Officials Announce Free Homeownership Assistance Opportunity

• The New York Times, 7/7/09, Mapping a Bird's-Eye View of Foreclosure Misery

• New York Daily News, 6/21/09, A subprime mortgage wolf tries wearing sheep's clothing

• The New York Times, 6/12/09, Penetrating the Maze of Mortgage Relief

• Office of the NYS Attorney General, 6/9/09, Cuomo Announces Intent to Sue "Amerimod" Loan Modification Company in Investigation of Foreclosure Rescue Scams Targeting Homeowners Nationwide

• American Banker, 6/2/09, Test Case for Why Underbanked Still Elude Industry

• Staten Island Real-Time News, 5/31/09, Recession a boon to some doing business on Staten Island

• The New York Times, 5/29/09 Avoiding Foreclosure

• Fox 5 News, 5/14/09, Hearings on Abusive Debt Collectors

• WYNC-Radio - New Law Says Lenders and Borrowers Meet to Fend Off Foreclosures, 5/6/09, on effectiveness of NYS foreclosure prevention law

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 4/7/09, Solutions! McMahon Hosts Foreclosure Prevention Forum

• City Limits, 4/6/09, National Bank Crisis Echoes on Local Streets

• Gotham Gazette, 4/6/09, Home Shops: 'One Stop' on the Road to Foreclosure

• Bloomberg, 4/2/09, Minorities Didn't Pay Higher Subprime Rates, Fed Study Shows

• Afro-Netizen, 3/17/09, It's Not Money Like Magic: Magic Johnson pitches for predator Jackson Hewitt

• Gotham Gazette, 3/16/09, How to Fight an International Landlord

• Crain's New York Business, 3/14/09, Bank-starved Bronx to get hungrier still

• The Queens Times, 3/12/09, Mortgage Scams on the Rise, Targeting New Yorkers

• New York Law Journal, 3/10/09, Foreclosure Conferences Get Off to Modest Start

• Associated Press, 3/8/09, Councilman warns of foreclosure scams

• WNYC-Radio - When a House is in Danger of No Longer Being a Home, 3/4/09, on Obama foreclosure mitigation plan

• The New York Times Company, 2/26/09, The New York Times Company Announces the 10 Semifinalists for the Third Annual Nonprofit Excellence Awards

• WWRL Morning Show with Errol Louis, 2/19/09, on Obama Administration's Foreclosure Prevention Plan

• Democracy Now!, 2/19/09, on Obama Administration's Foreclosure Prevention Plan

• YourNabe.com, 2/18/09, Banks' foreclosure freeze may help SE Qns. debtors

• BBC World Service, 2/18/09, on Obama Administration's Foreclosure Prevention Plan

• Grit-TV with Laura Flanders, 2/18/09, Will You Be Able to Keep Your Home?

• Crain's New York Business, 2/18/09, Temporary halt to foreclosures urged for New York

• Fox Business News, 2/4/09, on rent-to-own stores

• WBAI-Radio - You & Your Money, 1/29/09, on Earned Income Tax Credit and Tax Refund Anticipation Loans

• Brian Lehrer Live, 1/28/09, A Culture of Extremes

• YourNabe.com, 1/28/09, Boro group to host senior lending forum

• YourNabe.com, 1/8/09, Hope on the Horizon

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