#tenant-rights

#tenant-rights

"The landlord did not pay attention to this house whatsoever. We didn't even know we had a landlord."

A landlord has a legal duty to make appropriate repairs and to do so promptly once notified. The rules governing landlord entry into a rental unit are stated in California Civil Code Section 1954. This statute says that a landlord may enter only during normal business hours and only for a legitimate reason, which includes repairs, and only after giving 24 hours written notice to the tenant.

The fair housing statutes protect tenants' right to live in a rental property without interference or discrimination, regardless of their national origin. In our diverse society, these protections require housing providers to tolerate differences in culture and practices arising from the national backgrounds of their residents.

The city is our landlord, the mayor is our landlord, we are his tenants so why are we not included? I feel like it's completely unrealistic and it's unfair to have us live in this inhumane condition and we are not invited.

California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1161(2) limits the amount of past-due rent that can be collected with to a three-day notice to rent that was unpaid no more than one year before the notice. Since the total amount in the notice included unpaid rent from two years earlier, the entire notice is invalid and cannot be used as the basis for a subsequent unlawful detainer action seeking your eviction.

Those of us who don't have a gym membership for showering, or a friend nearby, resort to boiling water,

Insult has been added to injury for the estimated 200 people who were displaced by Monday morning's apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown, after their landlord issued them all eviction letters. You may recall the early morning apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood at 19th Street and Broadway on Monday of this week, which also damaged the ground-floor Dope Era clothing store owned by local hip-hop icon Mistah F.A.B.

They took over $2000 in Christmas items. They took advent calendars, built bear kits, they took gifts and presents that were purchased for friends and family members, It's a violation of privacy. Second of all, with Mr. Lee being physically handicapped and suffering mental health illnesses, it made him fearful, The ones we are getting is that he is coming into people's houses, stealing stuff and the rent is going up and going down,

Most tenants told me they got nothing. In fact, they've had services removed," said Morrow. CBC Toronto has reached out to Westbury for comment on this case but has not yet heard back from the company. In its application, Westbury maintains it's added a new boiler and hot water system, among other things. Wendy Morrow, with the Federation of Metro Tenants Associations, suggests tenants take the time to go through all the documents presented at their board hearing well beforehand.

Queen's Park security eventually cleared the public gallery in order to complete the final vote on Bill 60.

A home in Oakland where tenants are allegedly being threatened with immigration enforcement by their landlord on Nov. 12, 2025. The East Oakland residents said their Bay Area-based landlord began a months-long harassment campaign over their immigration status after they rejected his buy-out offer. Tenants in East Oakland are suing their landlord, who they said threatened them with immigration enforcement to force them out of their homes.

The Ford government introduced a new housing bill on Thursday that it says would streamline approvals and let developers build homes more quickly. But buried in the legislation is a proposal for "alternative options to lease expiry rules that could allow landlords to control who occupies their units and for how long," including through adjustments to rental arrangements based on market conditions, personal needs or business strategies, according to the province's briefing slides Thursday.

Attorney Richard Vetstein, of the Vetstein Law Group in Framingham said both landlords and tenants have responsibilities in maintaining a property. "A landlord has the obligation to comply with the sanitary code," he said. "The sanitary code is the floor. If conditions go beneath the floor, the landlord has to make repairs. Landlords aren't mind readers, though, either. They have to be told that there's a problem and they need a reasonable opportunity to correct it."

When Rosenworcel proposed a federal opt-out rule last year, the FCC said it would "increase competition for communications service in these buildings by making it more profitable for competitive providers to deploy service in buildings where it is currently too expensive to serve consumers because tenants are required to take a certain provider's service." But the proposal was nixed in January 2025 by Chairman Brendan Carr, shortly after President Trump elevated Carr to the FCC's top slot.

This year alone, I passed over 30 bills. It's hard to choose just one - whether it's S5320 expanding tuition assistance for students experiencing homelessness, S3121 protecting tenants from unfair rent fees, or S2126 uplifting underrepresented educators. With the Ignazio Giacalone Act, S1165A, we honor families of sanitation workers lost after 9/11. And with S8181, we protect first responders' health and dignity. Each bill reflects equity, fairness, and sacrifice - together, building a stronger, more just New York.

A City Limits investigation revealed significant issues with the program, which helps some 100,000 New Yorkers afford housing at buildings across the city. Here's how to know if you live in one of these apartments, and how to get help if you do. Last week, City Limits released a three-part investigation into New York City's Project-Based Rental Assistance Program, which helps low-income residents afford housing. We found tenants struggling to reach their property managers, get repairs done, and force government agencies to take enforcement seriously.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) responded to a record 161,773 unique heat and hot water problems in the 12 months that ended last June, according to the Mayor's Management Report released in mid-September. Heat and hot water violations were up 12 percent over the previous fiscal year, and 60 percent since 2016. Other housing code problems went up just 2 percent last fiscal year.