Earlier this fall, the national news lit up when an attorney employed by a mortgage loan servicer admitted to “robo-signing” thousands and thousands of fraudulent affidavits – documents signed under the penalty of perjury – that illegitimately pushed families into foreclosure. Loan servicers are responsible for collecting mortgage payments from borrowers and initiating foreclosure proceedings when borrowers fail to make payments, but they also have the ability to modify loans and keep borrowers in their homes. Against this backdrop, my organization, the National Fair Housing Alliance, joined...