1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Eviction Crisis Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) based on the best available data, hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of individuals and families in the United States face eviction each year; (2) collecting more comprehensive and consistent data through a national eviction database would foster a better understanding of the causes and contours of the eviction crisis as well as what efforts should be made to prevent evictions that are costly to tenants, landlords, and communities or to mitigate the consequences of evictions when they are unavoidable; (3) expanded landlord-tenant community courts can offer services that help tenants become current again on their obligations or offer alternatives to eviction that avoid homelessness or housing instability; (4) emergency assistance programs that provide short-term support to tenants facing a temporary emergency can also help prevent evictions and homelessness for low-income households; (5) past evictions or eviction filings can contribute to the cycle of poverty by appearing on credit reports, and tenants have a right to know whether a tenant screening report contains inaccurate data that may impede their ability to pass a background check and secure a stable home; (6) the Legal Services Corporation, established in 1974 under the Legal Services Corporation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 2996 et seq.) and funded by Congress to provide grants for free civil legal aid, has documented— (A) the ongoing justice gap in which 86 percent of the civil legal problems reported by low-income people in the United States, including housing-related legal issues, are handled with inadequate or no assistance from an attorney or other legal professional; and (B) that more than 50 percent of the legal problems presented to legal aid organizations funded by the Legal Services Corporation receive only limited or no legal assistance due to lack of resources