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housing courts  

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  • 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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