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New Jersey passed the Anti-Eviction Act of 1974, becoming the first state to enact a just cause eviction law. [1] California passed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to remedy the state's housing shortage, leading to renewed interest in utilizing just cause eviction laws to counteract the national housing crisis. [8]
On June 11, 2019, State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced that they had reached a "landmark agreement" on new rent laws. [6] Both houses of the New York state legislature passed the HSTPA on June 14, 2019, and Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the HSTPA into law later that day. [1]
Renter advocates have sought the new protections for five years through a state bill known as Good Cause Eviction, which would force many landlords to justify rent increases greater than 3% and ...
Eviction rates are also linked to the racial concentration of neighborhoods. The RVA Eviction Lab, in Richmond, Virginia, estimates that as the proportion of a neighborhood's black population increases by 10%, eviction rates would increase by 1.2%. [63] Hispanic renters also face higher filing and eviction rates than their white counterparts.
The law, which was passed by the New York state legislature and is implemented by the city, generally applies to buildings constructed before 1974 with at least six units, covering nearly one ...
Under this proposal, landlords would be required to have a "good cause" to remove a tenant, such as non-payment or violating the lease. Good cause eviction vote stalled as City Council debates ...
In the US, tenant right to counsel was first passed in New York City in 2017. [1] It has passed in 17 cities as of September 2024, [3] including San Francisco, Kansas City, [5] and Philadelphia. [4] TRTC is a common goal for tenants unions.
The New York-based Housing For All conglomerate of about 60 housing rights groups formed in 2017, said Wednesday that Good Cause Eviction Protections will protect “nearly every Ithaca tenant ...