Advocates say thousands evicted without representation, charged excess fees

Opponents say companies including RealPage use them to drive up rents

‘Too often, buyers and renters are unaware of the risks they face,’ DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette says

Right-to-counsel ordinance, passed last month, is aimed at strengthening tenants’ rights

Only after approving an applicant and making a conditional offer will a landlord be able to ask about criminal history

Moratorium will stay in place for other tenants, depending on income and issues with COVID-19

Murphy: ‘We will be injecting an additional $500 million in direct tenant relief’

Compromise was forged to help ‘hundreds of thousands of people’

Advocates say barriers to housing contribute to recidivism and homelessness.

The number of anticipated eviction cases for 2022 is 194,000.

Preparing for a surge in coronavirus eviction cases, a special committee at the state Supreme Court released recommendations to streamline the process.

Asbury Park residents reject strengthening of rent control ordinance

Some landlords have changed locks on tenants or shut off utilities without their knowledge.

There are currently 60,000 pending evictions across the state, according to the state judiciary, 14,000 of them in Newark alone.

Months have passed and some residents like Karee Dillard have still have not received a penny of unemployment insurance. He says his landlord is making ...

With many residents out of work for months and behind on the rent, there are calls for additional state intervention

More than 2,200 families have been relocated to New Jersey from the Big Apple, under a program that pays landlords a year’s rent upfront

A study published in the Rutgers Law Review shows an overwhelming number of renters in New Jersey are not asserting their rights as tenants, despite ...

Preventing insurance fraud after the next super storm? What about the last one? Angry constituents still without homes give a congressman an earful. Expanding casinos ...