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One strike you're out
One strike, you're out is the colloquial term for a policy adhered to by public housing officials in the United States, which requires tenants living in housing projects or otherwise receiving housing assistance from the federal government to be evicted if they, or any guest or visitor under their more or less direct control, engage in certain types of criminal activity on — or in some cases even off — the premises of said housing. This term is used because no warning or second chance is given to the offending tenant, and is apparently a back-formation of the "three strikes, you're out" concept embodied in the mandatory sentencing laws for repeat criminal offenders that began to be enacted in various American states in the 1990s.
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