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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.
In the United States, a home rule city, charter city, or home rule charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by its own municipal charter document rather than solely by state statute (general law). State law may require general-law cities to have a five-member city council, for example, as in California, but a city ...
[1] [2] Washington is divided into 39 counties and contains 281 municipalities that are classified into cities and towns. [3] [4] Approximately 65.4% of the state's population lives in incorporated municipalities. [5] The most populous municipality in Washington is Seattle with 737,015 residents, and the least populous municipality is Krupp ...
Many smaller communities also have rent control — notably the California cities of Santa Monica, Berkeley, and West Hollywood [27] — along with many small towns in New Jersey. In the early 1990s, rent control in some cities, such as Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, was ended by state referendums. [28]
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1]
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
As of Jan 26, 2022, there were 482 incorporated municipalities in the state. [19] Under California law, the terms "city" and "town" are explicitly interchangeable; the name of an incorporated municipality in the state can either be "City of (Name)" or "Town of (Name)". [20] Counties exercise the powers of cities in unincorporated areas. [7]
Ghost towns in Central, Southeastern Washington. Liberty. One of the most well-known ghost towns in Washington state is Liberty in Kittitas County.It’s in the Swauk Mining District, which was ...