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A close-up view of two electronic doorbells on a brick wall. The bricks are painted red and blue in a pattern that the viewer is too close to to see. The doorbells, which are grubby-looking, have paper stickers next to them reading Apartment #1 or Apartment #2.
Tenant Power Returns

Is Everything in Your Lease Legal? Quite Possibly Not

Minhae Shim Roth -
Some leases plainly contradict state law or include questionable, punitive, or egregiously anti-tenant clauses.
An illustration of folk—men and women–running after a home that's being taken away by an "inflation" balloon. The illustration has a blue tinge to it.
Policy

Unfair Market Rents: How Inflation Is Skewing FMRs

Meir Rinde -
"Fair market rents" are set by HUD and used to determine how much federal assistance programs will pay toward rent. But with rental costs rising so rapidly, they aren't keeping up.
Women of Color on the Front Lines

Vy Le—A Resident Services Manager in Washington State

Shelterforce Staff -
Vy Le’s perseverance as an immigrant, unbeknownst to her, was preparation for a later fight to remove barriers for others facing similar challenges.
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