Mortgage Industry Submits Comments on HUD’s Proposed Disparate-Impact Rule under the Fair Housing Act

By: Paul F. Hancock, Andrew C. Glass, Melanie Hibbs Brody, Roger L. Smerage, Melissa S. Malpass, Gregory N. Blase

On January 17, 2012, K&L Gates LLP submitted the comments of six financial services trade associations to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on the proposed rule to implement a disparate-impact legal standard under the Fair Housing Act. The trade associations on whose behalf we filed the comments are: the American Bankers Association, the American Financial Services Association, the Consumer Bankers Association, the Consumer Mortgage Coalition, the Independent Community Bankers of America, and the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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