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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Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
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
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]
As GOBankingRates previously reported, a survey from the rental platform Zumper found that the median rental price of a one-bedroom unit rose 11.6% in 2021 alone, while the median price of a two ...
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.
Proposition 33 would repeal a 1995 law called the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which generally prohibits local governments from limiting rental rates as issued by landlords.
Costa-Hawkins is the key state legislation which serves to guide the operative provisions and practice of rent control in California. [58] Yet it is the local governments, for the most part the cities, which actually write and adopt the specific rent control laws.
State law says landlords cannot raise your rent more than 5% plus the percentage change in the cost of living or 10% (whichever is lower) over 12 months. Rent cannot be raised by more than two ...