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Can I Break A Lease If There Are Bugs In My Apartment? What a Texas Lawyer Says
The answer is a qualified yes, says LANWT Attorney Farwah Raza, so it’s important to understand the rights and responsibilities of both the tenant and…
Group Continues to Question TCEQ’s Enforcement Action Against Concrete Batch Plant Caught Operating Without Permit
In the ongoing effort to protect its community from environmental discrimination, Joppa Freedman’s Town Association will continue advocating for stronger enforcement actions during a TCEQ…
Legal Aid Attorneys Move To Addiction Epidemic Frontlines
LANWT’s Path Beyond Opioids project helped a daycare teacher in recovery. “Without them, I really would have been put in a bind,” she says. Read…
FEMA News
UPDATE: Texans who sustained losses from the storms and flooding April 26 through June 5 have until August 15 to apply for federal assistance. There…
Vídeo sobre los derechos de los inquilinos: apelar los desalojos
Nuestros abogados detallan el proceso para presentar una apelación de desalojo.
Tenant Rights Video: Appealing Evictions
Our attorneys detail the process to file an eviction appeal.
Lubbock Attorneys Working With Tenants in HUD-Funded Apartments
“How in the world can they even think that us old people can get up off of the floor?” Genevee Stith, 92, who was informed…
LANWT attorneys weigh in senior citizens’ complaints about local apartment complex
There are federal rules to make sure tenants aren’t put in a precarious situation and they are compensated if they need to be relocated, says…
Blind Spots in Code Compliance Leave Complex Residents Vulnerable to Poorer Living Standards
Is mistreatment of tenants a form of constructive eviction? LANWT’s Farwah Raza talks the importance of tenants correctly requesting needed repairs to protect their rights…
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