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Assocs., (quotation omitted).

Assocs., (stating that a statutory retaliation defense “applies when a tenancy is terminated by notice to quit, not when a tenancy is terminated based on a breach of lease”), aff’d in part and rev’d in part, (noting that this court’s statutory retaliation ruling was not on review and reversing in part based on a common-law retaliation defense).

Assocs., (“Minn. Stat. § 504B.441 prohibits retaliation for a residential tenant ’s complaint of a violation to a government entity, such as a housing inspector, or commencement of a formal legal proceeding.

Assocs., - 02 (Minn. 2019).

Assocs., (“Evictions of tenants—some resulting in homelessness—based on their complaints about habitability are inimical to public health, safety, and welfare.”).

See Minn. Stat. § 504B.385, subd s. 5(a), 9(a)-(c) (2024); Central Housing Assoc., Rush v. Westwood Village P ’ship

Assocs., (quotation omitted); accord 1 The district court determined that, under the ouster statute, Old Home’s reckless disregard of Said’s rights was not sufficient to find bad faith and therefore did not award treble damages

-05 (Minn. 2019) (a pplying this principle to determine whether a statute’s meaning is plain).

Second, in Central Housing Associates, the supreme court held that residential tenants "have a common-law defense to landlord evictions in retaliation for tenant complaints about material violations by the landlord of state or local law, residential covenants, or the lease."

v. Olson , recognizing a new common-law defense to breach-of-lease evictions.

Assocs., (quotation omitted).

Assocs., d 398, 402 (Minn. 2019) (stating that we will read a statute in context to “determine whether a statute’s meaning is plain”).

Assocs., (construing Minn. Stat. § 504B.441 (2018) ).

Assocs., d 398, 402 (Minn. 2019) (quoting Am.