SHOULD THEY STILL PAY RENT FOR DAMAGED HOMES???
As residents of Texas left to pick up the pieces that were left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, things could not get any worse. There have been thousands displaced by flooding, and the situation has become a bit more crazy for the residents in Houston.
People have been hit with rent charges and late fees for their homes that are currently flooded. The flood has left Houston with a growing housing crisis. There has been a conflict between tenants and landlords.
Lawyer Saundra Brown of Lone Star Legal Aid stated that, “Right now there are going to be many landlord-tenant issues: people who don’t think they should give back the security deposit for flooded properties.”
Brown continued, “There will be people who will try to kick out their tenants because their brother-in-law needs some place to stay. There’s going to be a severe shortage of rental space in the community.”
Roughly there have been 180,ooo homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
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