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Landlord harassment is the willing creation, by a landlord or their agents, of conditions that are uncomfortable for one or more tenants in order to induce willing abandonment of a rental contract. This is illegal in many jurisdictions, either under general harassment laws or specific protections, as well as under the terms of rental contracts ...
Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...
A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. [1] False accusations are also known as groundless accusations or unfounded accusations or false allegations or false claims. They can occur in any of the following contexts: Informally in everyday life; Quasi-judicially; Judicially
Oct. 13—A Manchester landlord and property manager have been charged with violating the Fair Housing Act by attempting to evict a tenant after a complaint was filed against them, according to ...
In February 2023, tenants accused the company of trying to force them to move out because of their work to organize fellow tenants in an effort to bring their apartments into livable condition.
A New York landlord has an arrest warrant with his name on it for racking up more than 30 housing code violations during a four-year-period for a Bronx apartment building he owns.
Shimei curses David, 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. Attested in English from 1753, [4] harassment derives from the English verb harass plus the suffix -ment.The verb harass, in turn, is a loan word from the French, which was already attested in 1572 meaning torment, annoyance, bother, trouble [5] and later as of 1609 was also referred to the condition of being exhausted, overtired.
When the landlord won't cooperate, however, some tenants are forced to take matters into their own hands. Yvette Duran, a long-time renter in Manhattan's East Village, organized a tenant's ...