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New Jersey was the first state to pass a just-cause eviction law in 1974. [1] Interest in these laws has grown in recent years with California passing a just-cause eviction law in 2019 [4] and Oregon passing a bill enumerating valid causes for evicting tenants the same year. [5] Washington passed a similar bill in 2021. [6]
Some 5,260 households were threatened with homelessness after receiving a Section 21 notice in the run-up to Christmas, Government figures show.
Los Angeles County, with 10 million people spread across 88 different cities, will unwind special renter protections created in response to the hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, which some ...
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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.
Eviction rates are also linked to the racial concentration of neighborhoods. The RVA Eviction Lab, in Richmond, Virginia, estimates that as the proportion of a neighborhood's black population increases by 10%, eviction rates would increase by 1.2%. [64] Hispanic renters also face higher filing and eviction rates than their white counterparts.
The California Legislature voted Thursday to bolster eviction protections for renters and close a loophole in an existing law that has allowed landlords to circumvent the state’s rent cap. The ...
In 2023, Judge Milan Smith Jr., an American jurist claimed that homelessness is "presently the defining public health and safety crisis in the western United States." [199] According to 2023 Los Angeles homeless services authority data, on average, six unhoused people die in Los Angeles each day. The causes reported of death are overdoses ...