The  Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court recently issued a ruling in Landlord Service Bureau v. City of Pittsburgh, 2023 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 24 (March 17, 2023), striking the city of Pittsburgh’s residential housing rental permit program (the program) under the “business exclusion” of Pennsylvania’s Home Rule Law.

In 2015, Pittsburgh enacted the program through an ordinance with the purpose of ensuring rental units meet “all applicable building, existing structures, fire, health, safety, and zoning codes, and to provide an efficient system for compelling both absentee and local landlords to correct violations and maintain, in proper condition, rental property within the city of Pittsburgh,” the opinion said.

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