Landlord Accountability Act of 2023
Latest action · Mar 7, 2023 Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 7, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Landlord Accountability Act of 2023
This bill prohibits housing discrimination based on income, provides protections to tenants of certain federally assisted housing, and establishes a low-income housing maintenance tax credit for eligible landlords.
Specifically, the bill prohibits discrimination in rental housing and residential real estate transactions based on an individual's source of income and provides for penalties. Protected income sources include
- housing vouchers and rental assistance,
- rental and homeownership subsidies,
- Social Security and disability income assistance, and
- spousal and child support.
Additionally, landlords are prohibited from taking or failing to take certain actions with the intent to make a unit ineligible to receive Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) assistance. Landlords that violate this prohibition are subject to penalties and may be sued by harmed tenants. The bill further prohibits property owners of certain multifamily housing projects from intentionally leaving a unit vacant for more than 60 days. Property owners that violate this prohibition are subject to penalties.
The bill also provides protections to tenants of multifamily housing projects, including by requiring HUD to increase the staffing level for the Multifamily Housing Complaint Line and to create a Multifamily Housing Complaint Resolution Program.
In addition, HUD may provide grants to develop, expand, and assist tenant harassment prevention programs.
Finally, the bill establishes a tax credit for qualifying landlords that is equal to the landlord's annual low-income housing maintenance expenses. To qualify, a landlord must have addressed within 30 days any relevant complaints filed under the complaint resolution program.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2023Introduced in House
- Mar 7, 2023Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Employee hiring
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing discrimination
- Income tax credits
- Intergovernmental relations
- Landlord and tenant
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2023Introduced in House
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