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California legislators vote to ban laws that force landlords to evict tenants based on criminal histories. Such policies can disproportionately affect Black and Latino renters.
Numerous cities within Riverside had adopted laws called crime-free housing that aimed to prohibit landlords from renting to tenants with criminal histories. “It’s just terrible,” said Smith ...
A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.
Elo-Rivera introduced the Residential Tenant Protections ordinance in late 2022, which increased tenants rights. The ordinance which passed in the City Council by a vote of 8–1 in April 2023 banned no-fault evictions with some exceptions. Evictions for renovations of units would require permits to be posted on the premises.
As of 2019, it was $6,985.23 per tenant, with an additional $4656.81 per disabled or elderly tenant, capped at $20,955.68 per unit. [ 9 ] In 2014 and 2015, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos authored two pieces of legislation to attempt to increase the relocation payments to provide for two years of market rate subsidy to displaced tenants ...
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Unfortunately, the United States eviction crisis is not fully understood due to poorly documented eviction records and limited research on the topic. [5] Landlord-initiated expulsion of tenants is not officially tracked or monitored by the federal government and has not been subject to comprehensive analysis.
After two months of organizing, the tenants facing mass eviction will be placed in rehabilitated units and receive rental assistance, as part of a new city agreement.