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The building manager informed the inspector that a tenant might be using his space contrary to permitted policy. The inspector approached the tenant to enter the area, but the tenant denied entrance for lack of a search warrant. The inspector returned twice more, again without a search warrant, and was again denied entry.
In American landlord–tenant law, a retaliatory eviction often refers to the substantive legal defense and affirmative cause of action that can be used by a tenant against a landlord if the tenant was evicted for reporting poor housing conditions, such as sanitary violations or violations of minimum housing standards.
If a tenant at will is given notice to quit the premises, and refuses to do so, the landlord then begins eviction proceedings. In many places it is completely illegal to change locks on doors, or remove personal belongings, let alone forcibly eject a person, without a court order of eviction.
The Return of Public Housing? This past week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) and Sen. Tina Smith (D–Minn.) introduced the Homes Act which would resurrect the federal government's role ...
The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, also known as URLTA, is a sample law governing residential landlord and tenant interactions, created in 1972 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in the United States. Many states have adopted all or part of this Act. [1]
The Fair Housing Act prohibits certain types of discrimination against renters, but does not cover blocking them based on political affiliation.
The landlord must give the tenant reasonable notice before he can enter the tenant's private home. Originally, in an agricultural society, the law expected the landlord to rent the property to a tenant and then leave the tenant alone. It gave the landlord no right of access, but also no responsibility for repairs.
Buoyed by promised pardons of their brethren for their Jan. 6 crimes and by Trump’s embrace of popular extremist far-right figures, those groups will likely see a resurgence after January ...