The California Apartment Association is taking its fight to define the constitutional limits of extreme rent control beyond California, filing a brief last week with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court opposing a sweeping statewide ballot measure.
Author: Whitney Prout
A California appeals court has struck down the City of Los Angeles’s rent-increase-triggered relocation assistance requirement, delivering another major win for the protections afforded to rental housing providers under the…
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CAA opposes use of disability law to expand rent control, override Costa-Hawkins in Oakland case
A federal lawsuit in Oakland could reshape rent control across California and dismantle Costa-Hawkins, a key state law that protects housing providers, by testing whether federal disability law could require…
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CAA completes briefing in Alameda eviction moratorium appeal, case now awaits 9th Circuit review
The California Apartment Association has filed its reply brief in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, completing the briefing in its constitutional challenge to Alameda County’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium.
The California Apartment Association has formally opposed requests to strip publication from its recent appellate victory in Pasadena.
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CAA urges state Supreme Court to leave Pasadena win intact as cities seek to limit statewide impact
The California Apartment Association has filed a brief asking the California Supreme Court to reject efforts to overturn — or water down — CAA’s major appellate victory in the Pasadena…
Alameda County has filed its answering brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and is asking the court to uphold dismissal of the California Apartment Association’s challenge to the…
Pasadena officials and tenant advocates have petitioned the California Supreme Court to reconsider a key appellate win secured by the California Apartment Association that shields housing providers from relocation payments…
A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week questioned attorneys on competing federal statutes during oral argument in the California Apartment Association’s challenge to a…
A series of recent actions by the Trump administration is reshaping the federal government’s approach to fair housing enforcement, including a major proposal that would eliminate HUD’s formal regulation on…
