Rental Housing Court in Northeast Philadelphia

Lookout People's Court and Divorce Court, there's a new court in town! Philadelphia will be pounding it's gavel on rental housing in the Northeast, and Northeast Philadelphia absentee landlords and nuisance properties will be on trial come October. Northeast rental housing court will soon be held at the 8th Police district at Academy and Red Lion Roads.

There currently exisits a rental unit task force to handle complaints about rentals but this takes the crack-down a step further as local community groups and civic associations will have a venue to address problem rental properties in their neighborhood.

Complaints about nuisants properties are handled by L&I (Department of Licenses and Inspections). Now, city council aides will be checking complaints about rental units and Landlords who have been cited by L & I  will be finding themselves in rental housing court if they do not address the complaint.

This is good news for Northeast neighborhoods! Now some lazy landlords will be forced to get their respective unsightly rental properties cleaned up that are affecting the value of some of the neighboring homes.

For more information on getting rental properties to code visit: https://secure.phila.gov/li-rent/