Tenant rights

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Tenant rights can either refer to the rights tenants enjoy by law, or to the movement to acquire such rights. Tenant rights generally seek to protect renters from landlord neglect and unfair eviction, as well as secure fair, affordable housing.

Laws dealing with the landlord-tenant relationship vary greatly between jurisdictions. These laws may provide some or all of the following for tenants:

• remedies for bad conditions
• privacy protections
• protection from landlord retaliation
• protection from exorbitant rent increases
• protection for the right to organize
• Just cause eviction controls

[edit] External links

• Cleveland Tenants Organization
• Tenant Net

• Fair Housing -- It's Your Right (NY focused)

• Ontario Tenants Rights Canada
• Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

• HUD Policies and Guidance
• Housing Discrimination Complaints
• Housing Discrimination: Fair Housing Regional Offices
• 50 state listing of landlord-tenant law (US)

[edit] Further reading

• Haas, Janay Ann. Landlord/Tenant Rights in Oregon. 248 pages. Self-Counsel Press, 7th edition, March 24, 2004. ISBN 1-55180-429-8.
• Moskovitz, Myron et al. California Tenants' Rights. 272 pages. Nolo.com, 15th edition, January 1, 2001. ISBN 0-87337-644-7.
• Sember, Brette McWhorter. Tenants' Rights in New York. 225 pages. Sphinx Publishing, May 1, 2000. ISBN 1-57248-122-6.

Historical reference

• Lawson, Robert and Mark Naison, editors. The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984. Rutgers University Press. Hardback: ISBN 0-8135-1203-4. Cloth: ISBN 0-8135-1158-5.

• A Pictorial History
• The Landlord as Czar: Pre-World War I Tenant Activity
• New York City Tenant Organizations and the Post-World War I Housing Crisis
• From Eviction Resistance to Rent Control: Tenant Activism in the Great Depression
• Tenant Power in the Liberal City, 1943-1971
• Tenant Responses to the Urban Housing Crisis, 1970-1984