Broken toilets.
Unanswered maintenance requests.
Rent increases.
Behind the podium, at least a dozen current and previous tenants and concerned citizens spoke to Muncie City Council members about housing issues in Muncie.
Broken Home: Tenants raise concerns about property management company
Despite listening to concerns, Jeff Robinson, city council president, said state law severely limits what local governments can do. In an effort to take some sort of action, the council signed a resolution urging the Indiana General Assembly to help tenants with habitable housing.
SB 148
SB 148 bans “units,” or counties, municipalities or townships, from regulating certain aspects of the relationship between landlords and tenants, among other things. For elements the city and county can’t regulate, those aspects of the tenant-landlord relationship are left in the hands of the state.
Read the whole story: https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2023/04/experts-owners-speak-on-middletown-property-group-indiana-tenant-law
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