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The enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s landlord-tenant rules during the COVID-19 emergency period, which ran through August 31, 2020. It limited residential evictions to situations involving an imminent threat of harm and provided similar protection for small-business commercial tenants who submitted a hardship certification; it also allowed tenants to use a landlord’s failure to follow these rules as a defense.

Amending various sections of The Philadelphia Code to address matters related to the landlord and tenant relationship during the novel coronavirus of 2019 pandemic and otherwise, including providing for temporary eviction relief, and making certain technical changes, all under certain terms and conditions.