In October 2022, the Financial Services Innovation Coalition (FSIC) and Credit Builders Alliance (CBA) led a coalition letter to HUD asking...

In January 2023, the Delaware State Housing Authority (DSHA) announced that the”Delaware Tenant Rent-Reporting Program Pilot is a new program funded...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (with PERC) HUD/PERC Study, Potential Impacts of Credit Reporting Public Housing Rental...

In June 2022, HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) made a posting on California’s rent reporting pilot, Understanding the Implementation...

In October 2022, NCLC issued a new issue brief, Even the Catch-22s Come With Catch-22s: Potential Harms & Drawbacks of Rent...

In October 2022, the NCLC issued a new issue brief, Even the Catch-22s Come With Catch-22s: Potential Harms & Drawbacks of...

The flurry of letters from consumer groups to government agencies over tenant screening-related issues continues. Last week, the NCLC issued a...

In December 2021, FinRegLab and Urban Institute issued a report, Utility, Telecommunications, and Rental Data in Underwriting Credit. According to the summary...

CDIA sent a letter to Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in support of S. 1838, the Building Credit...

The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on Sept. 10, 2021, Protecting Renters During the Pandemic: Reviewing Reforms to Expedite...

Two states and the District of Columbia have laws to encourage or require rent reporting to consumer reporting agencies. California California...

Thomas Aiello, a policy and government affairs manager with the National Taxpayers Union, recently wrote an op-ed, that discusses how rental...

In February 2020, HUD and PERC, a global consulting firm, released a study examining how reporting rent payments made by thousands of HUD-assisted households to nationwide consumer reporting agencies would impact the credit standing of these families.

A report by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer offers a first-of-its-kind estimate demonstrating how reporting rent payment information to...

Credit Builders Alliance issued a report making a clear case that “[b]y reporting their residents’ rent payments to the credit bureaus, responsible,...