Sheryl Ring, the legal director at Open Communities, said: “Since this started, they [landlords] have been taking advantage of the financial hardships many of their tenants have in order to coerce their tenants into a sex-for-rent agreement — which is absolutely illegal.”
“We’ve heard some landlords are attempting to use the situation where a tenant falls behind to pressure a tenant into exchanging sex for rent,” she added.
A week ago, the Justice Department took action, with US attorneys directed to “divert all necessary resources” to investigating sex-for-rent schemes.
