Eviction Expungement Bill

Eviction records keep individuals and families entwined in a lifetime

cycle of poverty; force people to live in unsafe housing; and cause
homelessness and a host of other consequences. One reform to help
minimize the unpopular effects of eviction records is to provide record
sealing or expungement and to minimize public access to these
records. Eviction record sealing, in combination with additional tenant
protections and reforms, would greatly improve access to safe and
affordable housing, especially for the people most often forced to the
margins of society.

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Kulkarni’s bill, HB 159, would automatically expunge eviction judgments from tenants’
records after one year. It would also seal away eviction filings from the public if they’re
dismissed. (Currently, she said, they stay on tenants’ records and can hurt their
chances for future housing.) (Louisville)

State Policymakers Are Working to Change How Courts Handle Eviction Cases​
https://pew.org/3kJ5puX

This is the result of an eviction expungement bill, Indiana House Enrolled Act
1214, unanimously passed by the Indiana state legislature earlier this year,
which took effect on July 1.

While public health advocates have long recognized

housing as core to health justice, the issue has received
increased attention from lawmakers and the public in
recent years. Increased recognition of the harms of
eviction has also percolated into public discourse,
bolstered by the publication of Matthew Desmond’s 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted, an ethnography of eight
low-income Milwaukee families living at risk of eviction
while their landlords retain considerable profits.