Civil harassment may include:
- Using force or threats of force
- Interrupting essential services: heat, hot water, electricity, gas, etc.
- Bringing repeated baseless court cases
- Removing a tenant’s belongings from their apartment or room
- Removing the front door from the apartment or room
- Breaking or changing the locks on doors without supplying new keys
- Making repeated contact about giving the tenant something of value if the tenant moves out
- Requiring or preventing a tenant from seeking medical help
- Requesting ID that would disclose citizenship status when the person has already provided current government identification
Criminal harassment includes:
- Any conduct that impairs the habitability of a housing unit
- Conduct that creates or maintains a condition which endangers the safety or health of tenants
- Conduct likely to interfere or disturb, or is intended to disturb the comfort of a person legally entitled to live in an apartment or room
- Conduct intended to or that causes physical injury to tenant or a third person