Talk:Tenant rights

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[edit] Legal history

Can someone write about the expansion of tenant rights in the U.S. the second half of the 20th century? This was very huge, and it basically made a landlord be responsible for nothing into making a landlord have to provide adequate heat, light, water, etc. Before this, the only way a tenant could legally get angry about something was something absurd like not being able to enter the apartment, let's say because the landlord put a bar across the front door. Then the tenant could obviously sue under contract law for breach of contract (the tenant gets access to the apartment in the lease). But after the revolution in tenants' rights, the tenant is entitled to all kinds of liveability conditions, and many of these are implicit (don't have to be put into the contract). I might spend a little time writing about the major SCOTUS cases, but I'm sure most of the important ones are already on Wikipedia so it wouldn't take a lot to cross-link them. Thanks,

Borntostorm 22:47, 8 October 2006 (UTC)