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The Philippine Statistics Authority defines a squatter, or alternatively "informal dwellers", as "One who settles on the land of another without title or right or without the owner's consent whether in urban or rural areas". [1] Squatting is criminalized by the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (RA 7279), also known as the Lina Law.
In December 2020, the New York State Legislature passed a state moratorium on evictions. [11] In May 2021, the legislature extended the moratorium until August 31. [12]The Supreme Court struck down a provision of the state moratorium that protected people who filed a form declaring economic hardship, rather than providing evidence in court.
Rent regulation is a system of laws for the rental market of dwellings, with controversial effects on affordability of housing and tenancies. Generally, a system of rent regulation involves: Price controls, limits on the rent that a landlord may charge, typically called rent control or rent stabilization. Eviction controls: codified standards ...
Two men with children, being evicted, stand with their possessions on the sidewalk, circa 1910, on the Lower East Side of New York City. Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord. In some jurisdictions it may also involve the removal of persons from premises that were foreclosed by a mortgagee (often, the prior ...
January 25, 2022. Status: In force. The Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act, officially recorded as Republic Act No. 11900, is a law in the Philippines which aims to regulate the "importation, sale, packaging, distribution, use and communication of vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products and novel tobacco products ...
Bayanihan to Heal as One Act. Status: Expired. The Bayanihan to Recover as One Act, also known as Bayanihan 2, [1] and officially designated as Republic Act No. 11494, is a law in the Philippines that was enacted in September 2020 granting the President additional authority to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. [2][3]
Landlord–tenant law is the field of law that deals with the rights and duties of landlords and tenants. In common law legal systems such as Irish law, landlord–tenant law includes elements of the common law of real property and contract. In modern times, however, it is frequently governed by statute. [1] Generally, leases must include a few ...
Landlords started nearly 1 million eviction proceedings in 2022, an increase of 79% since 2021, according to data from the Eviction Lab, a Princeton University think tank that researches housing.