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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 ...
Costa-Hawkins is the key state legislation which serves to guide the operative provisions and practice of rent control in California. [58] Yet it is the local governments, for the most part the cities, which actually write and adopt the specific rent control laws.
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Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
California cannot reject tenants’ applications for COVID-19 emergency rental assistance after a renter lawsuit raised questions about whether the state program meets constitutional standards.
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 California Civil Rights Department sued two landlords, alleging they discriminated against a Section 8 tenant. It was the first such suit the department brought.