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Biden Administration and Agencies take action to protect renters (more anti private property rights legislation)
jdsupra.com ^ | 8/4/23 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Posted on 08/08/2023 5:24:48 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU

On July 27, the Biden Administration released a fact sheet detailing new actions to develop the Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights, which was rolled out early this year (covered by InfoBytes here). The three new actions aim to support renters by (i) “ensuring all renters have an opportunity to address incorrect tenant screening reports”; (ii) “providing new funding to support tenant organizing efforts”; and (iii) “ensuring that renters are given fair notice in advance of eviction.” Additionally, the CFPB, USDA, FHFA, and HUD concurrently released statements aimed at landlords, reminding them of “best practices” and their obligation to inform tenants of their rights.

FHFA published Director Sandra L. Thompson’s statement on “best practices” for the delivery of adverse action notices to renters by GSE-backed multifamily housing borrowers. Referencing research showing that tenant screening reports often contain imprecise or inaccurate information, Director Thompson “strongly encouraged” borrowers who deny a rental application to provide written adverse action notices to the applicants and a copy of any consumer screening report that was relied upon. FHFA’s guidance is based on the FCRA’s requirement that landlords and property managers inform rental applicants of negative information from a consumer screening report that resulted in their rental application being rejected or another unfavorable outcome.

The CFPB posted a blog entry that emphasized landlords’ obligation under the FCRA adverse action notice requirement, which mandates that landlords who take any action against a current or prospective tenant based on a consumer report notify the tenant of the decision and how they can contact the company that created the report. The Bureau advised that renters have the right to review their rental background check report and to dispute information they believe to be inaccurate and encouraged tenants to obtain a free copy of the report from the company that compiled it and dispute any errors (covered by InfoBytes here).

In conjunction with the White House press release, HUD announced it is taking multiple actions to improve rental screening transparency and support renters. It is sending reminders to public housing agencies and property owners about their obligation to inform rejected applicants about reasons for their denial, which provides renters with the opportunity to correct any errors. Additionally, HUD is providing $10 million for tenant education and outreach in Section 8 program properties to assist tenants with “capacity building efforts” for engagement with property management. Furthermore, HUD will issue a proposed rule requiring a 30-day written notification for evictions due to nonpayment of rent in certain subsidized housing.

Also mentioned was the recent White House announcement of actions it is taking to combat “unfair and hidden fees” concerning rental housing


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: landlords; property; renters
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More private landlords will exiting the real estate market leaving only gov't and big corporate landlords. Exactly what they intended.

Infobytes link: https://buckleyfirm.com/blog/2023-01-27/biden-administration-releases-renters-bill-rights

1 posted on 08/08/2023 5:24:48 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
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To: AbolishCSEU

Let’s name this what it is not and what it is. It is NOT legislation. Legislation has to be passed by the House and senate and signed into law by the president. This is an unconstitutional taking order by fiat from an administration hostile to the rights of the landowners.


2 posted on 08/08/2023 5:29:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: AbolishCSEU

This follows the story that gen z’s are renters.


3 posted on 08/08/2023 5:30:24 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: AbolishCSEU

This is Obama’s Affirmatively Fair Housing rules via backdoor. They want to bring the ghettos into the suburbs. Shaniqua is going to be twerking next to cows.


4 posted on 08/08/2023 5:31:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: AbolishCSEU

Landlord = bourgeoisie

Tenant = proletariat

Biden administration = Marxists


5 posted on 08/08/2023 5:32:19 PM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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“providing new funding to support tenant organizing efforts”

And when exactly did CONGRESS authorize this spending?
6 posted on 08/08/2023 5:34:22 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Get used to saying the USSA! We have now fallen into communism, Marxism, dictatorshipism Nazism, and all of the rest of the ism. The great evils of this administration and the globalist are now falling perfectly into place.


7 posted on 08/08/2023 5:34:41 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: AbolishCSEU

You want to protect renters? Give them the same tax deductions that homeowners get.


8 posted on 08/08/2023 5:35:23 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: AbolishCSEU

This is not a federal issue. Local people and local circumstances matter.


9 posted on 08/08/2023 5:41:33 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

We have a methhead that lives in these apartments (Hawaii) that was served eviction papers 3 months ago and he refuses to leave.
I was informed that there is a new(er) law that was made to protect renters because of the kung-flu lockdowns.


10 posted on 08/08/2023 5:42:24 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

The Ten Planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto
(and How Statists Implement Them)
  1. Abolition of private property rights (via property taxes, restrictive zoning laws, "fair housing" edicts, environmental and "wetlands" regulations, UN Agenda 21, UN Agenda 2030, etc.)
  2. Institution of a heavily graduated income tax (by calling it "taxing the rich")
  3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance (through a confiscatory estate tax making the government your primary heir)
  4. Confiscation of the property of enemies of the state (through a social credit system that can cancel all your financial accounts)
  5. Centralization of credit into the hands of the state (Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, TARP, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, federal takeover of student loans, etc.)
  6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation into the hands of the state (FCC, DOT, FEMA, NTSB, FAA, etc.).
  7. Consolidation and subjugation of all major industries to central government control (FDA, EPA, OSHA, ICC, HUD, NLRB, EEOC, DOE, TSA etc
  8. Mandatory labor union membership ("card check" to bypass employee consent, automatic withholding of union dues, forced unionization of health care workers, teachers, police, firefighters, etc.)
  9. Equitable redistribution of all wealth (TANF, SSI, EITC, SNAP, Community Reinvestment Act, etc.)
  10. "Free" public education (and food, housing, health care, cell phones, Internet access, etc.)


11 posted on 08/08/2023 5:42:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: rottndog

When they gave their legislative power to unelected bureaucrats.


12 posted on 08/08/2023 5:47:42 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert ( Vivek Ramaswamy 2024)
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To: AbolishCSEU

“nased on consumer report”?

sounds like that credit score thing, used against you.
I’ve been in my place since before Obama. I imtend to stsy here till I can’t anymore, or ‘that day’ as some call it.


13 posted on 08/08/2023 5:52:05 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Bikkuri

Ugh!


14 posted on 08/08/2023 5:55:50 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: AbolishCSEU

Bingo. Drive them out of business and here comes Blackrock to buy them up cheap.


15 posted on 08/08/2023 6:15:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: AbolishCSEU

And where in the Constitution does the federal government have the power to regulate housing?


16 posted on 08/08/2023 6:16:57 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: gibsonguy

Aren’t Gen z under 25?

Being renters is to be expected these days in that age range.


17 posted on 08/08/2023 6:24:40 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Ron DeSantis. The latest GOPe champion in a long list of winners. Jeb! Mitt Romney, and John McStain)
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To: AbolishCSEU

More Dumbacrat voters!


18 posted on 08/08/2023 6:29:24 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: AbolishCSEU

It is not a good thing to be a landlord anymore. Landlords no longer have any basic rights.


19 posted on 08/08/2023 6:35:26 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“They want to bring the ghettos into the suburbs.”

They would need to put in big septic tanks and leech fields in my septic tank neighborhood.

Sometimes low percolation can be helpful.


20 posted on 08/08/2023 6:44:20 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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