Housing Laws

The housing law described in this section provides protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking and their household members.¹ A tenant who has been sexually harassed by their landlord or the landlord’s agent is also protected.²

If you are not a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sexual harassment by your landlord, but you have questions about your housing rights, here are some links that may be useful:

• for information on an anti-discrimination law called the Fair Housing Act, click here; and
• for basic tenants’ rights when you rent an apartment, click here. 

¹ Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 6001(6)(A)
² Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 6001(6)(D-1)