KERA's Think

Evictions Follow You, Even If You Move


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When a tenant is evicted from a rental property, that negative mark stays on their record for years, even if the case was dismissed or filed illegally. Megan Kimble, executive editor of The Texas Observer, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about tenant background checks that operate without oversight and the lives upended by a confusing system focused on serving landlords. Her recent article is headlined “The Blacklist: How Evictions Haunt Tenants in Texas for Years.”
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