Rental Legislation

Regulatory news & conference coverage in top stories of May ’23

Expert discusses preparing for CRA modernization Jason Keller, associate director of U.S. Advisory Services with Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions and former community and economic senior advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, spoke with Dodd Frank Update about the upcoming Community Reinvestment Act modernization rules and what lenders can do to get ready for any changes.  

Dodd Frank Update: Experts discuss AI as the next frontier of fair lending; Wells Fargo to pay another billion-dollar settlement

Monday, May 22, 2023 Experts discuss AI as the next frontier of fair lending At CBA Live, hosted by the Consumer Bankers Association, Dodd Frank Update sat in on a discussion with experts about the next frontier in fair lending: artificial intelligence (AI). The panel of experts discussed the ways AI is being used in...

State Senate Takes Aim at ‘Institutional’ Landlords

By: Jim Michaels COLUMBUS, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – They are being called “institutional” landlords. Out-of-state corporate entities that buy a large number of homes in one fell swoop, many times not living up to their landlord-tenant agreements or even providing basic services. It has inspired bipartisan Senate Bill 76 in Columbus. The bill takes corporations owning 50 or more homes in a...

Is Rent Theft?

By: Jeffery S. Watson Dear Anna, For those of you who do not learn from history, you will repeat it. In 2016, a book titled Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, a progressive, pro-tenant publication, began circulating and influencing many of the news stories regarding housing being available in the United States. Then came the Covid Eviction Moratorium, and out of...

Ordinance Status Update

As you are aware there is a group of non-owner occupied property owners trying to stop the ordinance. This group has been meeting weekly presenting our case to the Mayor, Administrator, and City Council members and have gotten nowhere. I have been in the Mayor's meetings with 7 other landlords since January expressing the overreach, invasive, and unconstitutional aspects of...