Steve Sharpe

Senior Attorney

Steve Sharpe is a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) focusing on foreclosures and mortgage lending. He leads NCLC’s federal mortgage servicing policy work and frequently presents on mortgage servicing and other housing issues.

Steve is a co-author of NCLC’s Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications, Home Foreclosures, Too Damn High: How Junk Fees Add to Skyrocketing Rents, and the report How GSE Note Sales Undermine Homeownership, which examines the impact of bulk sales of hundreds of thousands of home loans to investors. Steve testified in front of Congress on the state of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Loan Guaranty Program, and he is also a contributing author of the legal treatise Truth in Lending. 

Steve is a cohort member of the Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Institute and a former Consumer Fellow with the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee. Previously, he represented homeowners at the Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio, LLC., and he started his career in 2005 at Indiana Legal Services with a Skadden fellowship focused on representing borrowers with predatory loans.

Education: 

J.D. Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington

B.A. University of Michigan