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Mountain View committee affirms $16,530 rent refund in harassment and unlawful-rent appeal
Summary
The Rental Housing Committee unanimously affirmed a hearing officerdecision ordering $16,530 in rent refunds to a tenant who said sustained harassment and improper rent increases made her unit uninhabitable and forced her to move out.
The Mountain View Rental Housing Committee on Jan. 23 unanimously adopted a tentative appeal decision that confirmed a hearing officer's earlier finding that a tenant had proven harassment and unlawful rent practices, and ordered the landlord to pay $16,530 in refunds.
The committee's action affirms the hearing officer's conclusion that ongoing harassment by another tenant had breached the petitioner's right to quiet enjoyment and amounted to a decrease in housing services and a failure to maintain a habitable unit. The hearing officer had separately found the landlord failed to roll back rent to the base-rent date under the city's rent ordinance (CSFRA), awarding an $8,000 refund for habitability/housing-service…
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