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Alleviating The Harms Of Substandard Housing To Wisconsin Tenants: Correlating Rent With Assessed Property Value, Ellen Matheson
Alleviating The Harms Of Substandard Housing To Wisconsin Tenants: Correlating Rent With Assessed Property Value, Ellen Matheson
Marquette Law Review
Like other cities across the nation, Milwaukee utilizes a mix of regulatory,
statutory, and common law tools to address the problem of substandard rental
housing. This Comment examines the efficacy of those legal tools, in the
process demonstrating that existing remedies offer insufficient protections to
tenants in need of habitable housing. This Comment then proposes a novel
legal strategy that is designed to ameliorate the problem of low-quality,
overpriced rental housing: amending Wis. Stat. § 66.1015 to permit
implementation of a “rent-value correlation rate”—giving municipalities the
option to cap monthly contract rent as a percentage of the assessed property
value. …