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A Tenant\u2019s Guide to Suing Your Landlord: Holding Landlords Accountable for Unsafe Housing Conditions<\/a> is a step-by-step pro se<\/em> guide on how tenants can proactively file cases against their landlords for substandard conditions. Many tenants live in unsafe or inadequate homes. This is no accident. Landlords profit by neglecting housing<\/a> while still collecting full rent from tenants. More than 300 properties<\/a> in Philadelphia have been cited as unfit for human habitation every year. Tenants rarely sue their landlords, but landlords annually file 24,000 eviction cases<\/a> in Philadelphia alone.<\/p>\n

The guide is an interactive tool with fillable forms, checklists, and worksheets. It walks tenants through the process of identifying their housing issues, providing notice to their landlords, collecting evidence, and preparing for court interviews and hearings. By engaging in the bite-size steps laid out in the guide, tenants will develop their personal statement and evidence (including damages calculation) needed to make a strong claim. Ultimately, the fillable forms in the guide can be submitted to the Court as evidence of the tenant’s case, reducing the barriers and confusion that a tenant may otherwise face in filing a pro se<\/em> claim.<\/p>\n

Lina Ruth Duiker (\u201922), Ashley Hyman (\u201922), and Maria Thomson (\u201922) developed the guide as part of the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic<\/a>. The guide was created on behalf of the Tenant Union Representative Network (TURN),<\/a> which partners with the community to advocate for a legal system that values housing as a human right. Tenants can bring the guide to TURN or another housing advocate for additional support and individualized advice if needed. By empowering tenant groups and increasing their access to justice, the guide seeks to shift the narrative away from identifying tenant poverty as the primary cause of substandard housing to recognizing the primary role of landlord neglect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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