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Although SPIL members have discussed the idea of extending their legal assistance to landlords, Dee said that the group's limited resources make such a scheme unworkable. And by representing property owners, she said, the group would lose its effectiveness as tenant advocates...
...restricted by the size of our budget and student interest," said Dee. "And there's a conflict of interest problem, in that every time we represented a landlord, it would cancel out all their tenants so that we couldn't represent them...
...Dee added that SPIL was founded as a tenant advocacy group, and that a change of focus would "fundamentally alter the nature of the group...
...Dee said SPIL's goal is not to "be unfair to owners or skew the system in favor of tenants," but to "help the rent control system go smoothly...
Landlords can usually afford to represent themselves or to weather the hearings without legal assistance, Dee said...