Ms. Pressley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services ... To create a database of eviction information, establish grant programs for eviction prevention and legal aid, and limit use of housing court-related records in consumer reports, and for other purposes.
Create a federal database of eviction information, establish grant programs for eviction prevention and legal aid, and limit the use of housing court-related records in consumer reports.
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Pressley and Tlaib reintroduced the Housing FIRST Act, which would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit tenant-screening consumer reports from including criminal-background information and to require housing applicants be given specific reasons for denials or adverse actions.
Pressley said the House passed the Eviction Helpline Act and Helping More Families Save Act; the first would require HUD to establish and promote a national hotline for eviction-related assistance, and the second would expand HUD’s Family Self-Sufficiency program.
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Pressley advanced related housing measures, including bills affecting tenant-screening consumer reports and House-passed eviction-related assistance, but the evidence does not show enactment of the full promise. The specific federal eviction-information database and the broader grant programs for eviction prevention and legal aid were not established, so this is only partial credit rather than full delivery.