Wrongful eviction is usually based on the landlord’s unlawful discrimination of a tenant
Wrongful eviction originates from both federal and state anti-discrimination laws.
The most common forms of landlord discrimination are based on tenants:
- Ethnicity: The landlord evicts a tenant because of the tenant’s ethnicity.
- National Origin: The landlord evicts because of the tenant’s national origin.
- Gender: The landlord evicts because of the tenant’s gender or gender preference.
- Religion: The landlord evicts because of the tenant’s religion or religious beliefs.
- Age: The landlord evicts the tenant because of the tenant’s age or disability.
- Race: The landlord evicts a tenant because of the tenant’s race.
- Retaliation: The landlord evicts a tenant out of retaliation for the tenant reporting the landlord to the housing authority or some other public agency such as Health and Safety. For example, the tenant reports the growing presence of life-threatening black mold to the local Health Department because the landlord is not removing the danger.
