Tenant rights

Many renters were displaced after the May 16 tornado. A St. Louis nonprofit is working to help tenants understand their rights.

After the May 16 tornado, affected residences received color-coded safety assessment tags on their front doors. Here’s what they mean for residents and what happens next.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen will soon discuss a bill to make more people eligible for a displaced-tenants fund and a measure that would lower property tax bills on buildings made uninhabitable by the tornado.

The city set a target of 1,125 cases a year, but is off to a less ambitious start.

Nationwide, rents and the cost of living are increasing. Eviction filings are "a great indicator of housing insecurity," says a researcher from Princeton University's Eviction Lab.

In the coming year, Green is hoping aldermen will pursue policies that herald the “Year of the Worker.”

The Conflict Resolution Center-St. Louis offers landlords and tenants a free, nonlegal route to solving disputes.

The Board of Aldermen returns in September, when a handful of bills designed to help tenants are likely to be introduced.

The budget generated little contention, but the bill that would provide legal counsel to tenants facing eviction prompted debate.

St. Louis Alderwoman Chistine Ingrassia wants tenants to have lawyers in evictions, a proposal that could cost about $1.6 million a year.