Colette Massengale

Colette Massengale, Esq., is the senior policy representative for Fair Housing for the National Association of REALTORS®’ Advocacy Team.

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This Women’s History Month, Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act

In 1972, the National Commission on Consumer Finance issued a report identifying troubling patterns of credit discrimination against women. The report detailed how single women had more trouble obtaining credit than single men, creditors were unwilling to extend credit to a married woman in her own name, and women who were divorced or widowed had…