A landlord cannot just come on top the lawn and start ripping it up without the tenant's permission.

On one hand, yes. On the other hand that's only as enforceable as a tenant can fight it.

In practice it happens. Unless the tenant has the resources or there's a legal advocacy group dedicated to that specific issue, owners tend to be able to do whatever they want so long as they use the argument of 'protecting my property'.

The settlement and restitution just ends up something like the owner keeps their stuff there and maybe you get to terminate your lease tomorrow without being forced to pay out the whole eight remaining months of the lease. But that's anecdotal.

Regardless it's the people working at the store who don't like it. The owner class loves this shit and hate poor people.