This loan company was founded to help Latino immigrants. It has sued thousands of low-income Latinos during the pandemic.
“On an afternoon in mid-June, Analleli Solis was walking home from her brother’s house just down the street when she noticed someone she didn’t know retreating from the front door of her modest brick home. Solis approached the woman, who handed her an envelope. Inside was a lawsuit from Oportun Inc., a personal loan company Solis had turned to for years when she and her husband didn’t have enough cash to cover rent, fix their cars or take a vacation.”