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An amendment to the Ellis Act for San Francisco County was proposed in 2014 in the California State Legislature, SB1439. [17] If enacted, SB 1439 would have required property owners who have filed an Ellis eviction to wait five years before doing so with another building. [18] The measure did not pass. [19]
“Nearly 1.5 million renters in California are at risk of eviction, struggling to put together next month’s rent as the cost of living continues to rise,” Bonta said in a statement.
The "Los Angeles County Fires and Windstorm Event" qualify. The state of California maintains a list of areas designated as disasters and where price gouging is illegal under the statute Penal ...
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.
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]
For example, due to COVID-19, Oakland, California implemented a moratorium to prevent evictions from happening, which ended in February 2021. [30] Whereas in Massachusetts the eviction moratorium ended on October 17, 2020, and there was a CDC moratorium that stopped physical removals in cases where tenants owed rent due to illness or job loss ...
Under state law, landlords can evict tenants if they are planning a "substantial remodel" of a unit. Long Beach housing advocate Maria Lopez saw it as a loophole in tenant protection law.
They have reported tense negotiations with their landlords, in which landlords refused to reduce, postpone, or waive rental payments. [1] [58] They have also reported incidents of intimidation and illegal evictions. [6] [59] [60] Some landlords have asked tenants to hand over money they received from their $1200 stimulus checks.