Sexual Harassment In Housing
Sexual harassment in housing is another of many sexual harassment possibilities. This kind of sexual harassment takes place when you are looking for a place to live and the agent, tenant or landlord asks for any kind of sexual favor, makes sexual jokes or touches you in an inappropriate way.
A landlord’s obligation is to treat you with respect and if he or she tries to make you do something that makes you feel uncomfortable in a sexual manner you have the right to report it. Another type of sexual harassment in housing can be harassment by another tenant and it doesn’t matter if the victim or the harassers are of different or the same gender.
The victims of landlord-tenant sexual harassment are most often women in the most desperate circumstances; many are extremely vulnerable. The most common circumstances are when landlords will force the tenants to have sex to pay the rent or give the tenant some money for having sexual encounters and then that money gets turned back over to the landlord to pay the rent.
Some of the victims are not aware of the fact that these circumstances are illegal and they feel obliged to do anything, even when they don’t want to, in order to keep their apartment - even when it refers to sexual favors or other forms of harassment. This is not a way in which any landlord is entitled to collect the rent, and for them to even suggest such a thing is incorrect.
The landlord can also make sexual jokes or comments to their tenant or try to improve their apartments for additional favors. If anything that a landlord says, does, or suggests makes you feel uncomfortable, it is a good idea to seek legal advice as you may be a victim of sexual harassment in housing.
Sometimes the victims are poor or mentally ill and that makes the problem even worse as it is harder to track these cases. These kinds of actions mean the harasser may be prosecuted and made to pay for this kind of behavior.
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