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Arkansas landlords again fending off efforts to protect renters in dangerous, unhealthy housing April 14, 202112:39 pm A tenants rights group is not satisfied with a compromise version of a bill that they say provides few benefits for renters. Less than a month after her son died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a rented Little Rock apartment, bereaved mother Vicki Koenig came from her home in Stuttgart to the Arkansas Capitol in March to push for a law that would keep other renters from suffering the same fate. But as we near the end of the legislative session, that bill, which would require landlords to provide carbon monoxide detectors and other basic health and safety measures, is stalled out, its prospects bleak as landlords across the state flex their muscles to keep themselves as free of regulation as possible.

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