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The bill substantially expands tenant protections—by funding counsel, improving notice and data for targeted interventions, and limiting use of eviction records—at the cost of creating privacy risks from detailed data collection and imposing new administrative, fiscal, and operational burdens on governments, landlords, and taxpayers.
Low-income renters and tenants in HUD-assisted housing will gain broad access to free legal representation throughout eviction proceedings, reducing wrongful evictions and improving chances to stay housed.
Renters with past evictions or rental/utility arrears will be less likely to be denied housing or credit because eviction-related adverse items will be removed from consumer and tenant-screening reports.
Annual household-level eviction data (disaggregated by race, income, disability, and small geography) will be collected and made available to researchers and agencies, enabling targeted policies, better enforcement of fair housing laws, and improved understanding of eviction drivers.
Millions of renters' household-level eviction records, including names and sensitive attributes, will be collected and maintained in federal datasets, raising substantial privacy and data-breach risks if redaction or access controls fail.
State and local agencies, HUD-assisted property owners, and lenders will face increased administrative and compliance costs to collect, store, report data, provide notices, staff hotlines, and implement expanded tenant-counsel programs; those costs may be passed to tenants, reduce landlord participation in affordable housing, or strain local budgets.
Removing eviction-related items from consumer and tenant-screening reports will leave landlords with less verifiable tenant-history information, potentially increasing landlords' perceived risk of unpaid rent or property damage and leading to higher security deposits or co-signer requirements for renters.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Requires HUD eviction data reporting and database, funds free tenant legal counsel grants, bars eviction/arrearage info from credit reports, and mandates owner notices and a tenant hotline for covered units.
Introduced April 2, 2026 by Ayanna Pressley · Last progress April 2, 2026
Requires HUD and owners of federally assisted rental units to collect and report detailed eviction data, creates a HUD-run database with privacy safeguards, and funds a competitive grant program to provide free legal counsel to low-income tenants. It also amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to bar eviction- and rent/utility-arrears information from consumer credit reports, and requires owner-provided eviction notices and a tenant hotline with multilingual and disability access. The bill directs HUD to issue rules and set up the database and hotline within one year, prioritizes service to high-eviction and rural areas for grants, and authorizes “such sums as needed” for the grant program and related tenant legal assistance activities.