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Committee advances amendments to strengthen Montgomery County 'ban the box' housing enforcement
Summary
Sponsor Council Member Sales and staff won committee approval for amendments that require a uniform tenant addendum, landlord retention of signed addenda for one year, quarterly randomized audits of 10+ unit properties by the Office of Human Rights, and multilingual sample materials; the committee voted 3-0 to recommend Bill 8-24 to the full council.
Council Member Sales, sponsor of Bill 8-24, presented amendments intended to strengthen enforcement of the county's Housing Justice Act (the earlier "ban the box" measure). The changes the committee adopted would clarify that landlords must provide a standard, director-prescribed addendum about criminal- and credit-history screening as part of lease agreements and retain copies of completed addenda for one year.
Sales said the amendments respond to…
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