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...It is appropriate that the landlord who will retain ownership of the premises and any permanent improvements should bear the cost of repairs necessary to make the premises safe and fit for human habitation. 1 American Law of Property s.
...48-A (supp) is to impose housing standards for dwellings and it provides authority for their repair or demolishment, whether occupied or unoccupied when they are unfit for human habitation. The parties agree that the defendant’s building is unfit...
...habitation due to dilapidation, dangerous defects which are likely to result in fire, accidents or other calamities, unhealthful lack of ventilation or sanitary facilities, or due to other unhealthy or hazardous or dilapidated conditions, may be caused to be repaired...
...repairs and more substantial rehabilitation. The plain language of the statute recognizes that the affirmative defense applies in situations where there is a “substantial” violation of the standards of fitness for health and safety that “materially” affects the habitability of...
...more expensive and time consuming than the repairs contemplated by the statute. The trial court also found that the defendants *84were entitled- to a reduction in rent “owing to the breach of the implied warranty of habitability.” This appeal followed.
...an express covenant to repair does not excuse, nor is it a defense to, the failure of the tenant to pay rent,” id., and the remedies afforded tenants by our adoption of the warranty of habitability in that case do...
On May 10, 1962 die plaintiff building inspector notified the Whites, by ordinary mail, that as a result of an inspection made by him on April 16, 1962, he “deemed both buildings unfit for human habitation [and] dangerous to die...