Under the leadership of Martin Eakes, Self Help has helped thousands of unbankable people become home owners. Now he's challenging commercial banks to pick up the ball. Read a portion below or go ...

Financial lending expert Martin Eakes’ calls the loan “onerous” and “predatory.” Eakes is also the CEO and co-founder of Self-Help Credit Union and the Center for Responsible Lending.

The same is true for Martin Eakes at Self-Help. This organization started out by giving reasonably priced home and business loans to low-income North Carolina families. But after seeing the wider ...