The New York Sun reports on a lawsuit filed by the Rent Stabilization Association, an organization representing landlords. They claim the four-month-old Tenant Protection Act, supported by the City Council, illegally includes the term “harassment” as a technical violation, since no one really knows what the term means. “For the first time, they are making a violation something that is not objective but something that is subjective. All we are saying is that this is not the purpose of the housing code,” RSA’s Mitchell Posilkin said. “What the council has done is ask inspectors to look into the mind of a landlord.” One question we have: if there are laws preventing other kids of harassment (like sexual harassment in the workplace, which has a clear definition), why can’t real estate harassment be defined?
‘Harassment’ Weighed as Battle Of Tenants, Landlords Heats Up [NY Sun]
“Woodfall’s Law of Landlord and Tenant.” Photo by umjanedoan