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· 2/26/2002

Housing Authority & Urban Redevelopment Agency v. Taylor

Citations

  • 796 A.2d 193
  • 171 N.J. 580
  • 2002 N.J. LEXIS 55

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that federal law prevents inclusion of attorneys’ fees and late charges as additional rent in evictions from federally funded housing projects
  • holding that federal law prohibits collection of “additional rent” in summary dispossess proceeding from defaulting public housing tenant
  • holding that federal law prohibits collection of \additional rent\ in summary dispossess proceeding from defaulting public housing tenant
  • holding that “the Housing Authority may not recover attorneys’ fees and late charges as additional rent in a summary dispossess proceeding”
  • “New Jersey courts long have held that parties to a residential lease may treat attorneys’ fees and other costs related to an eviction as ‘additional rent”

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Judges: Zazzali

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