Do you know what you would do if there was an apartment fire or disaster in your multi-unit apartment? As the apartment manager, your role is critical to the support…
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Price Gouging
California’s anti-price gouging statute, Penal Code Section 396, prohibits landlords and other businesses from raising rent (or the price of many consumer goods and services) by more than 10 percent for a period of time after a state of emergency has been declared by the President, the Governor, or local officials. Rent increases are limited to 10% during that period, irrespective of the duration and whether the unit becomes vacant.
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Understanding the Anti-Price Gouging Law Webinar
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If you follow the news, you probably notice that California appears to be in a constant state of emergency. Whether due to fires, severe storms, earthquakes, or pandemics, both the…
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California legislation that would expand the state’s emergency rent restrictions to long-term leases and change how businesses defend certain price increases has cleared the Legislature and is now on the…
The California Apartment Association, with the assistance of rental housing providers across the state, stopped legislation that could have imposed emergency rent restrictions during wars and other U.S. military actions.…
The California Apartment Association is asking rental housing providers to contact their representative in the state Assembly and urge a no vote on legislation that could cap rent increases during…
Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Calaveras County in response to the Gann Fire, triggering California’s anti-price-gouging law and limiting rent increases to no more than…
California housing providers could see the state’s 10% emergency rent cap applied to long-term leases and triggered by wars fought overseas, under two bills pending when lawmakers return from recess…
Rental housing providers in Los Angeles County remain subject to wildfire-related price-gouging restrictions through May 28 after the county extended the protections for another month.
Rental housing providers in Los Angeles County will remain subject to limits on rent increases and restrictions on certain evictions after the county’s Board of Supervisors voted to extend wildfire-related…
Rental housing providers in Los Angeles County remain subject to limits on rent increases and restrictions on certain evictions, after the county’s Board of Supervisors voted to extend wildfire-related price-gouging…
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved another short-term extension of protections against price gouging tied to the county’s wildfire emergency from January 2025.
