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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to adopt an ordinance strengthening the city’s tenant anti-harassment protections and making it easier for tenants to sue landlords who violate ...
Landlords caught price gouging in Los Angeles County during the wildfire crisis now face fines as high as $50,000. Board of Supervisors voted to increase the maximum penalty to $50,000 from ...
In Los Angeles, some officials want to increase the penalty to $30,000. Barger, whose district includes Altadena, said she wants to go further, contending that predatory landlords across L.A ...
The tenant can ask the court to issue a restraining order, file a criminal complaint against the landlord, or sue him/her for money damages and attorney's fees. Because of these options for recourse, it may be to the tenant's advantage to complain about code violations in writing before the landlord issues a notice of eviction or a rent increase.
[48] [49] In the City of Los Angeles, the date is October, 1978. [50] [51] These exemptions, however, may leave most of a city's total rental stock under rent control. For example, in San Francisco, as of 2014, about 75% of all rental units were rent controlled, [52] and in Los Angeles in 2014, 80% of multifamily units were rent controlled. [53]: 1
The law requires that landlords act in "in good faith to take the unit permanently off the rental market" when withdrawing a property from the rental market. A family in Los Angeles successfully sued the landlord and, in a jury trial, won the right to remain in the rental, because they demonstrated that the landlord was not acting in good faith ...
He said his client offered $20,000 a month and six months of rent paid upfront, but the landlord responded by asking for $23,000 a month. "There are price-gouging laws in California that are just ...
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to finalize the last of its tenant protection package.