Tenants’ Rights Project Provides Information to Nebraska Students Seeking Off-Campus Housing

13 Oct 2017    

Tenants' Rights Project

Senior Certified Law Students Christian Gobel and Kasey Ogle developed and staffed a booth at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Fall Housing Fair on October 4. Christian and Kasey are working on the Tenants’ Rights Project this semester as part of their experience in the Civil Clinic. The annual Housing Fair is a forum for housing providers in Lincoln to advertise off-campus housing options to UNL students. The Tenants’ Rights Project booth provided students with information about their legal rights as tenants, including a link to a web site created by Christian and Kasey with information about how to request refund of a security deposit, problematic language in leases to avoid, and other general information about tenants’ rights under Nebraska’s Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Nearly 200 pamphlets were distributed to interested students during the three-hour Housing Fair.