Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.CARECEN in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services.
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 ...
California Senate Bill 35 (SB 35) is a statute streamlining housing construction in California counties and cities that fail to build enough housing to meet state mandated housing construction requirements. [1] The bill was introduced to the California State Assembly by State Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF) on December 15, 2016. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency that develops housing policy and building codes (i.e. the California Building Standards Code), regulates manufactured homes and mobile home parks, and administers housing finance, economic development and community development programs.