Hannah Dreyfus

1 month ago | azcentral.com | Hannah Dreyfus

Under Arizona law ― the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act ― you have key protections as a renter. Here’s what you should know: Right to safe, habitable housing Your landlord must provide working plumbing, electricity, heating/cooling, and address major safety or health hazards. Right to written notice before eviction For unpaid rent, you get 5 days’ written notice. For most lease violations, you get 10 days’ written notice to fix the problem.

1 month ago | azcentral.com | Hannah Dreyfus

You may have never heard of the “Crime Free Lease Addendum,” but if you’re a renter living in Arizona, chances are you’ve signed it as part of your lease. Here’s what to know about what you signed ― and why you should care.  What Is the ‘Crime Free Lease Addendum’? The crime-free addendum is a document added to most Arizona leases that allows a landlord to evict a tenant if they are accused of being involved in criminal activity.

1 month ago | azcentral.com | Hannah Dreyfus

In the 1990s, Tim Zehring had an idea to make apartment buildings safer.  As a crime prevention officer with the Mesa Police Department, he was concerned by how much time police spent responding to service calls from apartment complexes. If there were a way to empower landlords to handle matters themselves, he thought, it would reduce the burden on law enforcement.

1 month ago | azcentral.com | Hannah Dreyfus

Tiffany Johnson does not regret defending her 7-year-old daughter in a Tucson pool that afternoon, even though it led to her family facing an eviction. It was midday in late May 2024 and temperatures in southern Arizona already were pushing 90 degrees. At their apartment complex’s community pool, three boys were tossing around a soft football. Tiffany, 29, said she asked them several times to stop throwing the ball near her family.

Mar 8, 2025 | azcentral.com | Hannah Dreyfus

When Karl Krotke-Crandall, a specialist in Russian-Holocaust genocide studies, joined Northern Arizona University as an assistant teaching professor in 2023, he was surprised to discover a box of untouched audio recordings from Holocaust survivors, preserved in the library. "What was a collection of historical audio tapes doing hidden in Flagstaff?" he remembered wondering when he first discovered the untapped archive.