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California cannot reject tenants’ applications for COVID-19 emergency rental assistance after a renter lawsuit raised questions about whether the state program meets constitutional standards.
The Ellis Act (California Government Code Chapter 12.75) [1] is a 1985 California state law that allows landlords to evict residential tenants to "go out of the rental business" in spite of desires by local governments to compel them to continue providing rental housing.
Only rental units constructed before then will remain subject to the city's rent control. Those built after will remain exempt under Costa-Hawkins. Hence, in San Francisco only construction older than 1979 can be rent controlled, and older than 1980 in Oakland and Berkeley, the years those cities passed their rent control laws.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 November 2024. Regulations to reduce increases in housing rents "Rent control" redirects here. For other uses, see Rent control (disambiguation). Part of a series on Living spaces Main House: detached semi-detached terraced Apartment Bungalow Cottage Ecohouse Green home Housing project Human outpost I ...
Current California law forbids localities from imposing rent control on newer properties and most single-family homes. It also guarantees landlords' right to raise rents to market rates when a new ...
In 2018, a statewide initiative (Proposition 10) attempted to repeal the Costa-Hawkins law, which, if passed, would have allowed cities and municipalities to enact "strong" or "vacancy control" systems, allowed rent control to be applied to buildings built after 1995, and would have allowed rent control on single-family homes. All are currently ...
A Sacramento couple fell victim to serial squatters who left their property in disrepair after months of living rent-free. Karen and Skip Moriarty, landlords from Fair Oaks, rented their home to ...
In 2013, the city of Memphis reportedly cut wages from $15 an hour to $10 after it fired its school bus drivers and forced them to reapply through a staffing agency. Some Walmart “lumpers,” the warehouse workers who carry boxes from trucks to shelves, have to show up every morning but only get paid if there’s enough work for them that day.