Eviction Records & Housing Stability

An eviction shouldn’t mean Texans can’t get housing in the future, especially when many families don’t know their rights or have access to legal help. Evictions don’t just mean families have to leave their current housing: those families may be denied other housing and left without a secure place to live for years afterwards. Any record that an eviction case was filed — even if the tenant won the case and was never evicted — can be flagged by third-party tenant screening companies as a risk and used by landlords to deny an application for housing. This leads to housing instability and increases people’s, including young people’s, likelihood of experiencing homelessness.