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Feb. 12—A new law regulating tenant screening fees, in an effort to protect renters and provide more transparency in the rental application process, will take effect May 1. A new law regulating ...
A Hawaii consumer protection agency wants to remind rental housing landlords and prospective tenants that a new law limiting tenant screening fees took effect May 1. The law prohibits landlords ...
Federal regulators fined credit-reporting agency TransUnion a total of $23 million for tenant screening and security freeze failures on Thursday. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the ...
Federal [2] and state [3] fair housing and residential landlord-tenant law impact the tenant screening process several ways. It is, in a nutshell, a violation of fair housing law to treat protected individuals differently in the tenant screening process. Fair housing law at the federal level is found in Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of ...
Eviction in the United States refers to the pattern of tenant removal by landlords in the United States. [1] In an eviction process, landlords forcibly remove tenants from their place of residence and reclaim the property. [2] Landlords may decide to evict tenants who have failed to pay rent, violated lease terms, or possess an expired lease. [1]
New Jersey was the first state to pass a just-cause eviction law in 1974. [1] Interest in these laws has grown in recent years with California passing a just-cause eviction law in 2019 [4] and Oregon passing a bill enumerating valid causes for evicting tenants the same year. [5] Washington passed a similar bill in 2021. [6]
Two Cook County landlords are discriminating against Black renters by automatically denying their applications for units if they have any prior eviction history, housing advocates allege in two ...
One strike, you're out, is a colloquial term for a policy which allows tenants living in housing projects or otherwise receiving housing assistance from the federal government to be evicted if they, or any guest or visitor under their more-or-less direct control, engage in certain types of criminal activity on or, in some cases, even off the premises of said housing.