Since the expiry of the nine-year lease extension period on 28 February 2026, Lebanese courts have been navigating a law that is missing its most critical components: a tenant support fund that was never financed and committees that never fully operated.  In this commentary, the Housing Monitor analyzes three recent verdicts that, rather than acknowledging the law’s fundamental inapplicability, have adopted a piecemeal approach, examining  procedural steps tied to a non-functioning system to determine who deserves protection and who does not. While one court got it right and suspended court proceedings without demanding the impossible, the other verdicts showcase  how partial readings of the law can lead to contradictory outcomes,  and in the worst case, to eviction orders that punish tenants for the state’s own failures.