{"id":39822,"date":"2025-10-16T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39822"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:09:59","slug":"ken-kolb-contributes-to-sc-public-radio-story-about-fair-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/ken-kolb-contributes-to-sc-public-radio-story-about-fair-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Kolb contributes to SC Public Radio story about fair housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/ken-kolb\/\">Ken Kolb<\/a> offered his insights in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcarolinapublicradio.org\/sc-news\/2025-10-14\/in-sc-its-not-whether-youve-been-evicted-that-counts-against-you-legislation-could-change-that\">South Carolina Public Radio<\/a> story about fair housing by Scott Morgan. Kolb, professor and chair of the sociology department, studied how eviction history can thrust renters into an &#8220;alternative rental market&#8221; where prices soar and living conditions plummet. The eviction histories for renters remain in perpetuity even when eviction notices are resolved and renters aren&#8217;t actually ejected from their homes. \u201cThat information never goes away,&#8221; Kolb said. &#8220;It taints and stigmatizes people whenever they\u2019re going to try and rent new places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nuances of the flawed system and how to create fair housing are at the center of State House <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scstatehouse.gov\/sess126_2025-2026\/bills\/4270.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill 4270<\/a>, a bipartisan effort to seal eviction records after six years and seal records with filings that have been dismissed or settled in 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eviction filing remains on a renter&#8217;s public record in perpetuity even if it&#8217;s resolved. SC Public Radio&#8217;s Scott Morgan turns to Furman&#8217;s Ken Kolb to understand how renters can be thrust into an &#8220;alternative rental market.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,2444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-sociology","category-south-carolina-public-radio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39827,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39822\/revisions\/39827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}