Testimony: Shared Housing Agreements and Resolution Effort (SHARE) Pilot Program Amendment Act of 2026

Senior Policy Attorney Makenna Osborn testified before the Committee on Housing for the public hearing on the Shared Housing Agreements and Resolution Effort (SHARE) Pilot Program Amendment Act of 2026 (B26-0829).

Our testimony supports the implementation of an early mediation program, like that proposed in the SHARE Act, in DC. However, we do have several small but impactful corrections and clarifications Children’s Law Center believes the Committee needs to make to the SHARE Act to set the proposed pilot program up for success. We outline why Children’s Law Center believes the Committee needs to add guardrails to the pilot mediation program proposed in the SHARE Act to better protect tenants and recommendations for how the Committee should decide which guardrails to adopt.