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Homeowner and Housing Fraud and Scams: August 27 Public Speaker Meeting - All Welcome

Featured Guest: Lisa Sitkin
National Housing Law Project

Lisa Sitkin is a Supervising Attorney at the National Housing Law Project.  She provides technical assistance, training, and practice resources to attorneys representing homeowners inconnection with mortgages and foreclosure. Before joining NHLP, Lisa was managing attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates in Oakland, CA. She leads workshops and trainings on mortgages, foreclosures, loan modification and foreclosure rescue scams, including programs produced by the Practicing Law Institute and the National Consumer Law Center, and has testified before the California State Legislature and other governmental bodies regarding mortgage servicing and foreclosure issues. She is one of the original drafters of the bill that ultimately became the California Homeowner Bill of Rights. 

PROGRAM

1:30 Welcome and Introductions 

Board News/Requests

1:45 Featured Speaker(s) -

    Q&A and Discussion

3:00 Action Updates and Reports

NEW BUSINESS

ENDORSEMENTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Board of Director Nominations are now open and may be made until the Annual Election Meeting October 22.  Any Gray Panther Member in good standing and up to date on annual dues may nominate, vote, or serve on the Board. 

Current Board members are Betsy Morris and Carol Crooks (co-convenors), Cecilia Williams, David Blake, Helen Walsh, Kristy Martin (stepping down), Maria Sol, Raines Cohen (database coordinator), and Robert Magarian (treasurer). We are seeking a Secretary of the Board. Call Betsy 510-842-6224 for more info.    

The Board met August 11 and a majority endorsed BAROW (Berkeleyans for Accessible Rights of Way) to represent concerns of disabled pedestrians to transportation and urban design plans on Telegraph, and elsewhere.  Concerns are that bicyclists would be relegated to indirect routes off commercial streets. 

The next Board Meeting is September 4, 2025; the next speaker meeting is September 24, 2025. 

3:30 ADJOURN 

Open zoom discussion until 4pm

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RSVP below to get the Zoom link and a reminder.  We look forward to seeing you! 

 

WHEN
August 27, 2025 at 1:30pm - 4pm
WHERE
Your Home via Zoom
Berkeley, CA
United States
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CONTACT
Betsy Morris · (510) 842-6224
31 RSVPS
Dirk Neyhart Norma J F Harrison Raines Cohen Carol Crooks Julia Cato
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