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Lobbying for laws to provide tenants' rights and preserve affordable housing on the federal, state and local levels. In 1989, pressured the LA City Council to create the Systematic Code Enforcement Program, a program to inspect the City's over 700,000 rental units for electrical, plumbing and structural housing code violations.
The Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act ("Costa–Hawkins") is a California state law enacted in 1995, placing limits on municipal rent control ordinances. Costa–Hawkins preempts the field in two major ways. [1] First, it prohibits cities from establishing rent control over certain kinds of residential units, such as single-family dwellings ...
A new lawsuit accuses the city of Minneapolis of discrimination by lax housing code enforcement, especially for rental properties in a part of the city with high populations of people of color.
41.18, also known as Los Angeles Municipal Code, Section 41.18 (d) (1963, amended 2021), is an ordinance in Los Angeles prohibiting by law that there will be no "sitting, lying, or sleeping, or ... storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in the public right-of-way."[1] Sec. 41.18 (d) dictates the distance any person must be ...
Cassidy, who has been in the business more than 20 years and is a former Los Angeles police officer, told HousingWatch: "The primary way the housing market is affecting our job is that our goal of ...
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, African American residents, outraged by the slow pace in ending housing discrimination and police brutality, began to riot on the evening of July 30, 1967. The inciting incident was a fight between teenagers, which escalated into full-fledged rioting with the arrival of police. Within minutes, arson, looting, and ...
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before ...
California housing costs are among the most unaffordable in the United States. In 2018, the median San Jose home cost 10 times the median household income; Los Angeles homes cost 9.5 times; San Francisco homes cost 8.9 times; San Diego homes cost 8.1 times. [12] California is the most expensive state to rent in, in the United States. [13]