Federal Agency Cracks Down on a Predatory Lending Practice That Often Hurts Somali Muslims

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pledging to scrutinize contract for deed lending, a form of alternative or seller financing in which a private seller or investor group comes to a loan agreement with a buyer without many of the typical banking and mortgage regulations and protections

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is pledging to scrutinize contract for deed lending, a form of alternative or seller financing in which a private seller or investor group comes to a loan agreement with a buyer without many of the typical banking and mortgage regulations and protections