The Tenant Advocate’s Consumer Toolkit: Fighting Fees, Debt, and Barriers to Rental Housing

TIME: 2 – 4 PM EST

This training equips advocates and attorneys with consumer protection tools to support renters facing tenant screening issues, rental housing junk fees, and rental debt collection. Participants will learn how to use consumer law tools including the FDCPA, FCRA, and UDAP statutes to identify legal claims and challenge predatory practices. The session explores real-world applications for issue spotting and litigation and notes models for state-level protections. Attendees will leave with a strategic framework to help tenants secure and maintain rental housing.

SPEAKERS

• Ariel Nelson, Senior Attorney, National Consumer Law Center
• Steve Sharpe, Senior Attorney, National Consumer Law Center
• John K. Blake, Senior Supervising Attorney, Tzedek, DC