{"id":369198,"date":"2016-04-04T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/realestate\/landlord-tenant-law\/chart-state-by-state-anti-retaliation-statutes.html"},"modified":"2024-04-10T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:05:03","slug":"chart-state-by-state-anti-retaliation-statutes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/realestate\/landlord-tenant-law\/chart-state-by-state-anti-retaliation-statutes.html","title":{"rendered":"Does State Law Allow Landlords to Retaliate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Does State Law Allow Landlords to Retaliate?<\/h1>\n
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Most states prohibit residential landlords and property managers from engaging in retaliatory conduct in response to a tenant exercising their legal rights. Retaliatory conduct includes increasing a tenant’s rent or evicting a tenant because they formed a tenant organization or filed a complaint with a government agency.<\/p>\r\n

Understanding Landlord Retaliation<\/h2>\r\n

All tenants have fundamental tenant rights<\/a> during their tenancy. These rights include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\r\n