The D.C. Council has approved legislation that ensures permanent due process protections for District renters. The “Eviction Record Sealing Authority and Fair Tenant Screening Amendment Act of 2021,” which builds on 2020 and 2021 emergency legislation, “Fairness in Renting,” contains provisions such as requiring housing providers to give written notice of legal proceedings to tenants in all nonpayment of rent cases and mandates court eviction records of all cases that are resolved in favor of the housing provider must be sealed after three years.
