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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.
The landlord cannot charge a Section 8 tenant more than a reasonable rent and cannot accept payments outside the contract. [18] Landlords, although required to meet fair housing laws, are not required to participate in the Section 8 program. As a result, some landlords will not accept a Section 8 tenant. This can be attributed to such factors as:
Real estate prices have bottomed out. Depending on the market-- Las Vegas, Arizona, Southern California -- house prices can be insanely low. In Broward County, Fla., for example, homes that once ...
When a Section 8 voucher participant rents from a participating landlord, the local PHA “pays the difference between the household’s contribution (set at 30 percent of income) and the total monthly rent.” [13] The Section 8 voucher program does not set a maximum rent, but participants must pay the difference between the calculated subsidy ...
Landlord organizations say some property owners shy away from accepting Section 8 tenants because government red tape can force them to endure long waits for required inspections and paperwork ...
California police must help protect tenants from landlords illegally locking them out of their rental housing, according to new guidance from the Attorney General’s Office.
A survey conducted in October 2018 by the Los Angeles Times and the University of Southern California found that 28% of eligible California voters believed that the lack of rent control was the main contributing factor to California's housing affordability crisis. 24% of respondents believed that the most significant cause of the housing crisis ...
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