help with landlord tenant statutes interruption

[Linda Thomas]

Hello,

What does this mean? 

No individual unit lease on residential property shall be terminated or nonrenewed on the basis of the participation of any tenant or member of the tenant's family in a tenants' organization or association.

[Kevin Sobilo]

@Linda Thomas, there is a legal principle of "retaliation" against tenants. You can't take a negative action against them for exercising their rights.

In most cases that comes in the form of a tenant reporting issues to authorities like local code enforcement. A landlord cannot boot the tenant out because they did that.

This just sounds like a logical extension of that or at least a clarification because it may have been covered by the law previously.

So, you can't boot a tenant because they or their family belong to a tenant's rights group. Seems pretty straight forward.