Concept information
Preferred term
housing courts
Definition
- Specialized courts designed to handle legal disputes between landlords and tenants—known as housing courts or landlord-tenant courts—became a popular idea in cities throughout the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The impetus to establish housing courts came from widespread dissatisfaction with existing dispute-resolution mechanisms on the part of both tenants and landlords. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Housing Courts]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/housing_courts
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