Consumer Protections for Tenants: University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Everyone should have access to a safe, stable, and affordable home. Housing is fundamental to achieving economic stability, better health outcomes, and thriving families and communities.

Tenants deserve to be protected under consumer protection laws.

Shriver Center on Poverty Law director of housing justice, Eric Sirota, authored The Rental Crisis Will Not Be Televised: The Case for Protecting Tenants Under Consumer Protection Regimes, published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Concluding that achieving systemic change through broad-scale policing of the rental industry is both vital and often overlooked, Eric proposes specific reforms that consumer protection agencies can adopt to better protect tenants.

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