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Actions Towards Right to Housing

Legal Memo

Lease related Taxes:

amendments after the collapse A Summary of the amendments to the taxes due on lease contracts

This legal memo offers a quick overview of the amendments to the fees and taxes to which rental contracts are subject, following the outbreak of the economic crisis and subsequent collapse of the …

Legal Memo

How Do I Secure my Rights as a Tenant When My Dwelling Is Rehabilitated by a Renovating Company or Association?

Legal Memo

Lease Agreement Issued by the Right to Housing Legal Task Force

Lease AgreementReceipt for Rent PaymentsList of the itemsComplaint Due to the large number of violation reports received by the Housing Monitor, particularly those related to the absence of written leases, we initially encouraged …

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Registration of Verbal Lease Contracts at Beirut’s Municipality:

A Letter Presented to the Governor by Public Works Studio

Read in Arabic here.

Legal Memo

How Do We Defend our Rights as Tenants Under the Current Rental Law?

Legal Memo

After the Port’s Explosion, What Are My Rights As a Tenant in the Damaged Buildings?

Legal Memo

If I Am Threatened With Eviction, What Are My Rights?

Read in Arabic here.

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Defending Housing Against Displacement Policies

Read in Arabic here.

Legal Memo

Can Property Owners Force Rent Payments in Dollars or Market Rate?

Read in Arabic here.

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The Story of Sanaa and Living in Mar Mikhael

I am a secondary school teacher and have been teaching for 42 years. My salary now, when I go to retirement, is $2,000. I can’t get a loan or make ends meet. What …

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Apartments are Empty. Loans Stopped. We voted for Laws That Guarantee the Right to Housing.

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Beirut is My City and I Have the Right to Stay Here

Housing conditions in Beirut today are a result of multiple factors: growing land speculation and a process of financialization; lack of building, planning and land regulations that preserve social and urban fabric; state …