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This bill restores landlords' ability to pursue evictions and speeds court resolution, at the cost of increasing eviction risk, housing instability, and potential homelessness for low-income renters.
Property owners (landlords, homeowners, and small-business property owners) can resume filing evictions sooner, enabling them to pursue unpaid rent or regain possession of units.
Courts and local governments may resolve housing disputes faster, reducing court backlogs and administrative burdens from prolonged moratorium-related cases.
Renters, especially low-income tenants, will face increased eviction filings and greater housing instability as moratorium protections are removed.
Communities and local governments could see higher homelessness and related social and fiscal costs if displaced tenants cannot find alternative housing.
Low-income tenants may lose time to apply for or receive rental assistance or secure alternative housing, increasing financial precarity and risk of abrupt displacement.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Deletes a substantive subsection of 15 U.S.C. §9058, removing the federal statutory provision that governed the temporary eviction-filing moratorium and changing how the moratorium applies.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Cindy Hyde-Smith · Last progress February 6, 2025
Deletes a substantive subsection of 15 U.S.C. §9058 that had governed the temporary federal moratorium on eviction filings. By removing that statutory subsection, the bill changes the federal legal limits on eviction filings and shifts how the moratorium interacts with state and local housing rules.