> Legal Topics > Housing Tenants' Rights in New Jersey (Click to view chapters)
Chapter 1: Know Your Rights Against Illegal Evictions!
Chapter 2: Finding a Place to Rent and Moving In
Chapter 3: Your Security Deposit
Chapter 4: Understanding Your Lease
Chapter 5: Ending or Breaking Your Lease
Chapter 6: Your Right to Safe and Decent Housing
Chapter 7: Your Rights When Your Rent Is Increased
Chapter 8: The Tenant's Right to Court Process
Chapter 9: The Legal Eviction Process
Chapter 10: Defenses to Eviction
Chapter 11: What Happens After the Eviction Hearing?
Chapter 12: The Abandoned Tenant Property Statute
Chapter 13: Special Programs for Tenants
Chapter 14: Condominium and Cooperative Conversions
Chapter 15: Rooming and Boarding Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Chapter 16: Housing Discrimination
This information last reviewed: Jul 27, 2021
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