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These comments highlight NCLC’s rental housing junk fees resources, and also provide an overview of the array of junk fees renters must pay to secure and maintain rental housing and how these fees contribute to housing unaffordability and precarity. These comments also provide recommendations about what the final rules should contain.
The National Consumer Law Center writes to provide technical advice and comments regarding the proposed Protecting Renters Ordinance, focusing on section 5-12-081, Fees in addition to rent.
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These comments discuss the dizzying array of junk fees tenants pay to secure and maintain rental housing and how these fees contribute to housing unaffordability and precarity. In addition, these comments provide evidence showing the prevalence and persistence of these fees in the rental housing market. This evidence includes data from a survey that NCLC…
This letter urges the Massachusetts Budget Conference Committee to adopt the final Senate language, as amended, that bans the practice of requiring tenants to pay broker fees for rental units where the broker was hired by the landlord.
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To help ensure that renters can find safe, decent, and affordable housing, we urge the FTC to adopt a final rule that applies to rental housing and protects renters and rental housing applicants from hidden, misleading, and excessive fees.
The 39 organizations listed below are pleased to submit these comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding unfair or deceptive fees, R207011. These comments discuss the many fees, which we refer to as “junk fees,” charged to renters and rental housing applicants. The organizations urge the FTC…
Read More about Group Comments to the FTC Regarding Rental Housing Junk Fees
Comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau re: Docket No. CFPB-2022-0003.
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These comments discuss the many junk fees charged to tenants and rental housing applicants. We urge the CFPB to work with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate and prevent the imposition of these junk fees so that they do not end up in the hands of debt collectors, impair renters’ credit reports, and jeopardize…