Lawmakers are weighing bills that would make it harder for tenants to be evicted and easier for them to access affordable housing.-via TexasTribune
have filed twin bills in the House and Senate that, if approved, would void the recent eviction protections passed by local governments — and prevent any further safeguards from passing in Texas.
Opponents say that cities enact unique local policies for all kinds of other issues, and that there is nothing inherently different about evictions. “No one is arguing for a free holiday,” he said. “But we have minimalist protections for tenants. They’re the law. We should have to follow them.” “They see it as an access-to-justice issue,” he said. “When you show data that says without any qualification, ‘the rule of law does not exist [and] the Constitution doesn’t matter unless you have a lawyer,’ a lot of them view that as un-American, as I do.”
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