N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Eviction Law

Citation: N.J. DCA Landlord/Tenant Information Series — Eviction Law
Jurisdiction: New Jersey (state)
Source: Official source
Original Source: https://www.nj.gov/dca/codes/publications/pdf_lti/evic_law.pdf ↗

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The Legislature finds that research studies have demonstrated that the forced eviction and relocation of elderly
persons from their established homes and communities harm the mental and physical health of these senior citizens,
and that these disruptions in the lives of older persons affect adversely the social, economic and cultural
characteristics of communities of the State, and increase the costs borne by all State citizens in providing for their
public health, safety and welfare. These conditions are particularly serious in light of the rising costs of home
ownership, and are of increasing concern where rental housing is converted into condominiums or cooperatives which
senior citizens on fixed limited incomes cannot afford, an occurrence which is becoming more and more frequent in
this State under prevailing economic circumstances. The Legislature, therefore, declares that it is in the public interest
of the State to avoid the forced eviction and relocation of senior citizen tenants wherever possible, specifically in those
instances where rental housing market conditions and particular financial circumstances combine to diminish the ability
of senior citizens to obtain satisfactory comparable housing within their established communities, and where the
eviction action is the result not of any failure of the senior citizen tenant to abide by the terms of a lease or rental
agreement, but of the owner's decision advantageously to dispose of residential property through the device of
conversion to a condominium or cooperative.