For the last year, Councilmember Cathy Moore has been working on legislation to rewrite some of the city’s landlord-tenant laws — a much-anticipated suite of bills that could loosen restrictions on evictions and tenant screening and which have managed to roil the city’s politics even before seeing the light of day.

Moore’s announcement earlier this week that she would step down from her position seemingly threw into question that effort’s future.

But representatives of nonprofit housing organizations are determined to push the legislation forward and believe there’s still a path to changing the city’s current regulations. In fact, conversations about the legislation had shifted away from Moore even before she announced her July resignation.

The timing will be tight. The council will go

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