REPORT: Dispute erupts outside constitutional council over new rent law appeal

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11-07-2014 | 04:24
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REPORT: Dispute erupts outside constitutional council over new rent law appeal
A dispute erupted on Friday between long-time landlords and the head of the old tenants’ committee outside the constitutional council, after a number of attorneys arrived to file an appeal against the new rent law.

The landlords had staged a sit-in earlier outside the constitutional council, calling on the deputies to abstain from appealing the new rent law, which they had voted for.

A couple of months ago, lawmakers passed a controversial draft rent law rejected by old tenants.

Under the new law, rents regulated by the old rent law would increase over six years until they reach 5 percent of the current market value of an apartment.

More than 200,000 apartments, mostly in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, are estimated to be rented under the old law, which governs lease contracts enacted before 1992.

Inhabitants pay minimal rent fees that often amount to less than LL 1,000,000 a year – a remnant of the country’s preinflation days just after the Civil War.


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