Tenant Relocation Assistance for Hazardous Buildings

Current understanding

HB6087 would amend Michigan’s 1917 PA 167 (MCL 125.401-125.543), the state’s core housing law, by adding a new section 130a requiring landlords to provide relocation assistance to tenants who are displaced when a building is deemed hazardous or dangerous. This would establish a new statutory tenant protection currently absent from the 1917 framework, shifting relocation costs from displaced tenants (or public agencies) onto the property owner. Status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-16 — Housing: landlord and tenants; certain relocation assistance for tenants in hazardous or dangerous buildings; provide for. Amends 1917 PA 167 (MCL 125.401 - 125.543) by adding sec. 130a.: cross-connection with housing-building-codes: The hazardous/dangerous building designations that trigger relocation assistance under HB6087 originate in the 1917 PA 167 housing code enforcement framework. (novelty: 3)

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