The RENTAL Act rolls back pandemic-era renter protections, putting more D.C. residents at risk of eviction. | V_E / Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. is poised to enact the Rebalancing Expectations for Neighbors, Tenants and Landlords (RENTAL) Act, a rollback of pandemic-era tenant protections that could lead to a rising number of evictions in the District.
But as Yuliya Panfil and Sabiha Zainulbhai explaoins in an analysis in Greater Greater Washington, the District lacks the data to understand how this will impact residents. According to the authors, “The annual counts the Superior Court does publish show that tens of thousands of DC renters receive an eviction filing each year. Yet councilmembers are not able to track why these filings happen, where in the city they are concentrated, and who is most impacted.”…