Applying for rent remission during an epidemic can be negotiated with the landlord, and if the negotiation fails, the tenant can file a lawsuit with the People's Court of the place where the property is located to ask for a rent remission, which will be determined by the court according to the contractual agreement and the actual situation. During the epidemic, private landlords are encouraged to reduce or waive rents for their tenants, based on local policies and the will of the individual renter, without mandatory requirements.

Legal basis

On the response to the new Crown pneumonia epidemic to further help small and micro-enterprises in the service sector and individual business households to alleviate the pressure on housing rents, Article 2

Promote the leasing of state-owned housing for business purposes, there are difficulties in the service sector small and micro-enterprises and individual business households, to be exempted from the first half of the three months of Housing rent. In the case of subletting or subleasing state-owned housing, it is necessary to ensure that the rent waiver benefits the final tenant.

Centrally owned state-owned housing for rent, the implementation of the housing location of the small and medium-sized enterprises in the service industry and individual business households with operational difficulties in the housing rent support policy. If the performance of state-owned enterprises and institutions is affected by rent reduction or exemption, they will be recognized in the assessment according to the actual situation. For non-state-owned housing leased for business, difficulties in the service industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and individual business households, encourage the lessor to take into account the actual difficulties of the lessee, on the basis of equal consultation between the two sides, to reduce or postpone the collection of housing rent.