What States Can Do to Regulate Tenant Screening
A policy brief outlining concrete actions states can take to regulate tenant screening practices and reduce harm from inaccurate reports, automated scoring, and discriminatory impacts in the rental housing market.
This resource explains how tenant screening reports often include errors, misleading information, or sealed records, and how automated scores or recommendations can lead to unfair denials without proven predictive value, disproportionately harming Black and Latino renters.
It presents a menu of state policy options to regulate both landlords and tenant screening companies, such as limiting the use of non-conviction records, requiring individualized assessments, restricting the use of credit scores and eviction filings, and prohibiting unvalidated automated scoring.
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