For the second straight year, state Sen. Mark Leno has conceded defeat on a bill aimed at weakening the Ellis Act, legislation that protects a landlord’s right to leave the…
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A bill that threatens to undermine a landlord’s right to leave San Francisco’s rental housing business stalled Tuesday in its first committee hearing. The Senate Transportation and Housing Committee voted…
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Rent Control: Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act
In 1995, the California Legislature passed and the Governor signed AB 1164 – a law that is known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. This law cleared the way for…
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Rent Control: Bad Economic and Failed Social Policy
As communities across the country have removed old heavy-handed rent control policies, eleven California cities continue to maintain rent control ordinances (governing residential rental housing) and have adopted regulatory schemes…
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Ellis Act: A General Overview
Enacted in 1985, the Ellis Act provides that no local government can compel a rental property owner to continue to offer housing for rent. At the same time, the law…
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Forms SJ-001
Notification of San Jose Rent Control Ordinance
For use with rent-controlled units in the city of San Jose. Do not complete this form without first reviewing the instruction sheet.
A bill that threatened to strip landlords of their right to leave the rental housing business failed on the Senate floor Wednesday, May 28, thanks largely to fierce opposition by…
In the next seven days, a major threat to the Ellis Act is expected to either win Senate approval or die on the Senate floor. We’re counting on you, our…
AB 2405 (Ammiano, D-San Francisco) This bill would convert all Ellis Act court filings to general civil actions; they would not fall under the usual expedited unlawful detainer eviction process as…
Jerry Jacoby is a fourth-generation San Franciscan who lives on Filbert Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood. He was born and raised off of San Bruno Avenue and attended Lowell…
