The Santa Ana City Council on Tuesday granted preliminary approval to rent and eviction control ordinances, ignoring input from rental housing providers and the fact that state law already offers…
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Talk of rent control has arrived in Fresno. Creating a rent board and the policy of rent control is one of the top recommendations in Here to Stay, a report…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020-21 term has yielded a bumper crop of cases affecting property rights, signaling that the court may take an increased interest in property rights cases in…
The Pasadena Tenant Justice Coalition has filed paperwork with the city to place a rent control charter amendment on next year’s ballot and has begun gathering signatures. To qualify the…
Despite fierce opposition from the California Apartment Association, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to impose a rent control law that would limit most rent increases…
Did you know the city of San Diego requires rental housing providers to notify their residents every year about recycling services? Or that the city has its own eviction rules…
An urgency “just cause” ordinance that would have placed immediate restrictions on tenancy terminations has failed to get the required supermajority vote of the Vallejo City Council. On Tuesday, only…
Thanks to the efforts of the California Apartment Association, a proposal to implement a permanent “just cause” for eviction ordinance, and impose it at the beginning of tenancies, failed to…
Several more California cities this week, including Long Beach and Pasadena, rushed to pass urgency ordinances aimed at preventing no-cause evictions until the state implements Assembly Bill 1482. The stopgap…
An urgency ordinance preventing termination of tenancies without cause in Sacramento County failed to muster enough votes to pass. The ordinance was intended to stop rental owners from ending tenancies…