HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book): 14.4.4 Common Standing Issues in Housing Cases
In tenants’ rights cases, defendants have rarely challenged standing, and even when they have, courts often have given short shrift to their arguments.139 In those cases, courts rejected the standing defenses because it was clear that the tenants had suffered a concrete injury or threat of injury and because it was clear that the statutes or other laws in question were designed to protect the tenants’ or applicants’ interests.