Official:Amending Chapter 9-1100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Fair Practices Ordinance: Protections Against Unlawful Discrimination,” to require the use and disclosure of uniform screening criteria for rental housing and certain related disclosures to prospective rental housing applicants, and to provide that the failure to provide such disclosures may be evidence of other unlawful housing and real property practices, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Brooks
Introduced: April 15, 2021
Signed: June 24, 2021
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This law requires landlords to clearly disclose their rental application criteria and make it easily available to all potential renters. It also makes it an unlawful practice if a landlord doesn't provide this information.
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