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Proposition 33, titled Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property, and also marketed as the "Justice for Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
Santa Ana, California, limits annual rent increases to 3% for any apartments built before 1995, which is below the state’s rent control cap of 5% plus local inflation.
Assembly Bill 1482, or the Tenant Protection Act, limits when a landlord can raise a tenant’s rent and how much. State law says landlords cannot raise your rent more than 5% plus the percentage ...
Rent control laws define which rental units are affected, and may only cover larger complexes, or units older than a certain date. To attempt to not disincentivise investment in new housing stock, rent control laws often exempt new construction. For example, San Francisco's Rent Stabilization Ordinance exempts all units built after 1979. [63]
In 2018, 2020, and 2024, the AHF spent tens of millions of dollars running ballot initiatives that would have repealed state-level rent control limitations and given California municipalities a ...
California Assembly Bill 2097 (2022) California Density Bonus Law; California Fair Employment and Housing Act of 1959; California HOME Act; California Housing Accountability Act; California Senate Bill 35 (2017) California Senate Bill 50 (2019) California Senate Bill 684 (2023) California Senate Bill 1534 (1982) Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act
California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a consumer alert on Friday to inform renters about new caps on how much landlords can increase rent that recently went into effect.
In the 1997 Kavanau case, [76] a rental property owner challenged the City of Santa Monica's rent control law as a form of "taking" or inverse condemnation prohibited by the federal Constitution. The California Supreme Court affirmed the rulings by lower state courts in favor of the city.