Seal Eviction Records in PA!
Pennsylvania General Assembly
For tenants, having an eviction court filing on your record means many landlords won’t rent to you. But many tenants who receive eviction filings aren’t actually evicted. This could be because the landlord withdrew the case, they reached an agreement in court, or the tenant won at court.
Sealing eviction records would help tenants across Pennsylvania move on after difficult periods and allow them to apply for housing without worrying that an eviction will follow them around for life.
You can help by signing our petition calling on the PA General Assembly to pass legislation that would seal eviction records in cases that don’t result in a court judgment, and provide a path to sealing them for tenants that pay their judgments off and for those that have old evictions.
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For tenants, having an eviction court filing on your record means many landlords won’t rent to you. But many tenants who receive eviction filings aren’t actually evicted. This could be because the landlord withdrew the case, they reached an agreement in court, or the tenant won at court.
Once a lawsuit gets filed it is visible forever, and many landlords won’t rent to you.
Evictions are on the rise in Pennsylvania – going from 55,431 in 2020 to 115,343 in 2023. This is a problem across the state, with eviction rates in 2022 of 16.6% in Dauphin County, 8.1% in Erie County, 6.8% in Beaver County, 8.9% in Monroe County, and 11.5% in Delaware County.
This means that thousands of tenants across Pennsylvania may be locked out of decent housing even if they were never actually evicted!
We urge the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass legislation that would seal eviction records in cases that don’t result in a court judgment, and provide a path to sealing them for tenants that pay their judgments off and for those that have old evictions.