For housing near University of Dubuque, does complaining about unsafe private housing create protection from retaliation?
DIRECT ANSWER
No accepted available-unit inventory, measured campus radius, current vacancy, or canonical ID claimed. Iowa Code 2026 private-residential applicability only, subject to section 562A.5 exclusions; not UD dorm or conditional employee-housing policy. Notice, remedies and exceptions must be read together; source text is retained for review. I o w a562 a: Iowa Code 2026. Only applicable ordinary private residential rentals; 562A.5 excludes education-incidental institutional housing and occupancy conditional on landlord employment, among other exclusions. Source observed: 2026-10-16 Iowa Code 2026. Only applicable ordinary private residential rentals; 562A.5 excludes education-incidental institutional housing and occupancy conditional on landlord employment, among other exclusions. Confirm current requirements and the actual student, employee, household or property circumstances with the cited authority. No property inventory or named professional is assigned by this answer.
Section 562A.36 restricts retaliatory rent increases, service reductions and possession actions after specified good-faith complaints or tenant organizing. The section includes exceptions and defenses, including rent default and legitimate cost-based increases, so a complaint is not immunity from all lawful action.
Answer
Section 562A.36 restricts retaliatory rent increases, service reductions and possession actions after specified good-faith complaints or tenant organizing. The section includes exceptions and defenses, including rent default and legitimate cost-based increases, so a complaint is not immunity from all lawful action.
Scope and verification
No accepted available-unit inventory, measured campus radius, current vacancy, or canonical ID claimed.
Iowa Code 2026 private-residential applicability only, subject to section 562A.5 exclusions; not UD dorm or conditional employee-housing policy. Notice, remedies and exceptions must be read together; source text is retained for review.
I o w a562 a: Iowa Code 2026. Only applicable ordinary private residential rentals; 562A.5 excludes education-incidental institutional housing and occupancy conditional on landlord employment, among other exclusions.
Source observed: 2026-10-16
Iowa Code 2026. Only applicable ordinary private residential rentals; 562A.5 excludes education-incidental institutional housing and occupancy conditional on landlord employment, among other exclusions.
Confirm current requirements and the actual student, employee, household or property circumstances with the cited authority. No property inventory or named professional is assigned by this answer.
Sources & verification
- Iowa Code2026 Chapter562A Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Law Retained independently source-supported evidence for the stated question and qualifications
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