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In 2018, 2020, and 2024, the AHF spent tens of millions of dollars running ballot initiatives that would have repealed state-level rent control limitations and given California municipalities a ...
Gov. Brown's new 'tenant hot line' was getting 12,000 calls a day. "In response to tenant pressure, rent strikes, and steady news coverage about rent increases and angry tenants, especially seniors, the Los Angeles City Council passed a six month rent freeze in August 1978." By 1988, fourteen cities had adopted full rent control, and sixty-four ...
More California cities enact rent control to protect tenants, upsetting apartment owners. Bell Gardens resident Monchis Curiel was notified in June 2021 that her rent would go from $1,200 a month ...
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 ...
t. e. Proposition 21, an initiative statute for local rent control officially called the Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property, was a California ballot proposition that appeared on the ballot for the general election on November 3, 2020 and was rejected. If approved, it would allow local ...
In 2019, Oregon's legislature passed a bill which made the state the first in the nation to adopt a state-wide rent control policy. This new law limits annual rent increases to inflation plus 7 percent, includes vacancy decontrol (market rate between tenancies), exempts new construction for 15 years, and keeps the current state ban on local ...
California renters should be aware of laws impacting their rights, such as the security deposit cap limiting deposits to one month’s rent. Other laws include rules about how high a landlord can ...
Santa Ana, California, limits annual rent increases to 3% for any apartments built before 1995, which is below the state’s rent control cap of 5% plus local inflation.