The Los Angeles City Council introduced renter-protection measures to expand housing access amid the city’s worsening housing crisis. The ordinances would prohibit landlords from screening potential tenants based on their criminal, eviction, or credit histories. “Black and brown folks are much more likely to have low credit and much more likely to be sucked into the criminal justice system, often really unfairly. When you use those as proxies for understanding whether or not somebody is going to be a good tenant, you’re just compounding that problem,” said Cynthia Strathmann, executive director of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.