D.C. lawmakers are preparing to vote on permanent changes to the city’s eviction laws that could have big implications for the city’s rental housing industry.
Landlord groups are making a last-ditch effort to alter the language of the bill on the table.
The Emergency Rental Assistance Amendment Act of 2025 is scheduled for a first vote at the D.C. Council’s legislative meeting Tuesday after the council’s Committee on Human Services last week voted to advance the bill with a series of changes.
The bill would enshrine the temporary eviction reforms that the council passed on an emergency basis in October amid a mounting crisis of unpaid rent that put housing owners in financial peril. While the real estate industry initially supported the permanent bill, landlords in recent days voiced strong opposition to the committee’s changes.
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