This companion report to Too Damn High focuses on steps that state and local governments and advocates can take to address junk fees.
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Report discusses state and local laws addressing rental housing junk fees and provides recommendations to protect renters.
This is a petition urging the CFPB to open a rulemaking under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) to define residential real estate leases as “credit” and landlords as “creditors” under the ECOA for two limited purposes:
Civil rights groups signed on to this letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee urging them to postpone the mark up on the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) until the civil rights protections and algorithmic auditing provisions are added back in.
New guidance addresses how the Fair Housing Act protects renters from common tenant screening practices, including use of AI
Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement, The Shriver Center on Poverty Law, and the National Consumer Law Center submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in support of the respondents in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. The case involves a constitutional challenge to a city ordinance that imposes both…
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