The White House unveiled a series of new measures Wednesday that it said could protect renters both from rising costs and the burdensome practices hindering their housing searches. Before the pandemic, well over 2 million eviction filings and roughly 900,000 evictions occurred annually—disproportionately affecting Black women and their children,” the White House said in a fact sheet on Wednesday. Relatedly, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will work with the Federal Trade Commission to ensure accurate information in credit reports and background checks, the White House said. “The time, energy and focus that the Biden-Harris administration has dedicated to strengthening tenant protections and hearing directly from impacted people at the White House is significant and historic,” Yentel said on Twitter Wednesday. “We continue to urge the administration to prioritize enacting the Housing Supply Action Plan they issued in May.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2023 00:48 UTC