Disclaimer: per Philadelphia Code, Section 9-804(7), implied in this lease is the right of survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault to end their lease early and receive back their security deposit as long as they have evidence of the assault from a court, the police, and/or a healthcare professional, and, if the abuser is another tenant, the owner, the landlord, or the owner/landlord’s employee, the right of a survivor to get their abuser taken off the lease and evicted.
Translations of the Model Lease
Download PowerPoint and PDF versions of the Model Lease in commonly-spoken languages.
Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt
Thank you to Hau Le, Penn LLM ’23 for creating this translation!
Arabic / اللغة العربية
Thank you to Hend Alballaa, Penn LLM ’23 for creating this translation!
Spanish / Español
Thank you to Juan Ovalle, Penn LLM ’23 for creating this translation!
Mandarin / 官話 / 官话
Thank you to Lingyi Lin, Penn LLM ’23 for creating this translation!
Russian / Русский
Thank you to Veronika Bazhenova, Penn LLM ’23 for creating this translation!
Portuguese / Português
Thank you to Marcela Castilhos, Penn LLM ‘23 for creating this translation!
