{"id":427115,"date":"2025-12-05T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427115\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:14:10","slug":"2-new-laws-give-philadelphia-renters-help-with-security-deposits-application-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/427115\/","title":{"rendered":"2 New Laws Give Philadelphia Renters Help With Security Deposits, Application Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 5, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Two new bills aimed at making renting more affordable in Philadelphia became law this week.<\/p>\n<p>One bill caps apartment application fees at the cost a property owner incurs for a background check or credit check, or $50, whichever is less. It also forbids landlords from charging the same prospective tenant more than one background check fee in a 12-month period.<\/p>\n<p>The other bill allows prospective tenants to pay a portion of their security deposits in installments, if the deposit is more than one month&#8217;s rent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 5, 2025 Two new bills aimed at making renting more affordable in Philadelphia became law this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":427116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-427115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115668560501434552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}