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Live Streams Local Penn Plaza tenants forced out 10 years ago hope city council adopts inclusionary zoning bill By Talia Kirkland, WPXI-TV July 23, 2025 at 8:00 pm EDT ...

It’s been 10 years since residents of Penn Plaza in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood had to pick up their lives and move for a redevelopment that still hasn’t come.

If housing violations arise, it’s on tenants to defend their rights. It’s a system that may not be effective at preventing poor health.

Tenants could also file a lawsuit against their landlord, and they are entitled to withhold rent. But all of these options risk provoking your landlord – at potentially high cost.

Do habitability laws work? Housing quality protections for tenants, in other words, largely boil down to implied warranties of habitability, plus associated fines the city can issue.