Renters who report issues with their property to their Landlord or to housing health and safety regulators risk a type of eviction.
In the United States, retaliatory eviction as its known is illegal, and since Edwards v. Habib (1968) has been as a legal defence for renters unjustly removed from their homes.
The Deregulation Act 2015 introduced some curbs on when a section 21 notice of possession may be served upon a tenant following a complaint of disrepair.
[3] However, data released by a Freedom of Information request by Generation Rent, suggests that very few tenants are protected from revenge evictions after making complaints about their housing quality.
[9] The case recognized the inequity of forcing the tenant to wait until they were confronted with an unlawful detainer action to bring up retaliatory eviction as a defense.