The California Apartment Association has published materials to help landlords abide by a new “just cause” for eviction ordinance in the city of Los Angeles. The new “just cause” ordinance…
Author: Mallory Homewood
An appellate court’s interpretation of California’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act could invite more cities and counties to impose rent control on substantially rebuilt housing. California’s First District Court of Appeal…
California’s First District Court of Appeal has scheduled oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging Berkeley’s application of its local rent control ordinance to several housing units that received new certificates…
Faced with a court-ordered injunction, Los Angeles County has made changes to its COVID-19 eviction moratorium with the aim of keeping its ordinance in effect through the end of the…
Oakland voters this month approved a ballot measure that will place harsher limits on evictions and extend “just cause” protections to more rental units. Measure V, which passed with 67.4%…
A “no fault” eviction moratorium in the city of San Diego has expired, although significant protections for COVID-related nonpayment still apply. The no fault eviction moratorium took effect in May…
The California Apartment Association and the San Francisco Apartment Association this week filed a joint amicus brief in a case challenging Berkeley’s determination that several properties are subject to the…
Mountain View’s Rental Housing Committee has partially revised its newly adopted policies for calculating base rent to soften the blow to housing providers who provide one-month rent concessions to their…
Some good news for rental housing providers came out of an unexpected place last month, when the San Francisco Superior Court struck down portions of a San Francisco law that…
While the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to examine the constitutionality of Los Angeles’ eviction moratorium, the underlying legal challenge may still go forward in the lower courts. The city…
