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On Sunday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that enforces the state’s anti-price-gouging rules for disaster areas through Jan. 7, 2026. Under California Penal Code 396 ...
In an executive order Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom extended price gouging protection until March 8 amid an uproar over large rent increases in the wake of the Palisades and Eaton fires.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has lifted a price cap on new rental listings for some single-family homes in Los Angeles, responding to concerns that the rules had been restricting the availability of housing ...
For the five cities with "vacancy control" in 1995 the Act is phased-in. [41] It situates government contracts with owners about rent charged (e.g., provisions for low income housing), and the effects of a notice of violation, e.g., about health or safety. [42] Costa–Hawkins also addresses subtenancies, [43] and other issues. [44]
Landlords caught price gouging in Los Angeles County during the wildfire crisis now face fines as high as $50,000.. Board of Supervisors voted to increase the maximum penalty to $50,000 from ...
Proposition 33, titled Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property, and also marketed as the "Justice for Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
The act provides immunity to the State of California and its related entities from being sued. The law immunizes public employees from liability for “instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding” within the scope of their employment, “even if” the employees act “maliciously and without probable cause.” (Cal. Gov. Code, § 821.6)
A law barring monthly rents of more than $10,000 for new listings is stopping high-end homes from going on the market, real estate agents and brokers say. Such homes could be in demand for wealthy ...