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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to adopt an ordinance strengthening the city’s tenant anti-harassment protections and making it easier for tenants to sue landlords who violate ...
The county rules — which bar landlords from evicting low-income tenants who say they were financially harmed by COVID-19 and can’t pay rent — will now remain in effect through the end of March.
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 ...
In December 2024, the Employment Rights Project (ERP) contributed to the efforts surrounding the $1.3 million in fines for wage theft restitution and civil penalties against 19 car washes in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County and in Orange County. The Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) found that the car washes were engaged in ...
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 Tenant Protection Act of 2019 caps annual rent increases at 5% plus regional inflation. [51] For example, had the bill been in effect in 2019, rent increases in Los Angeles would have been capped at 8.3%, and in San Francisco at 9%. [51] The increases are pegged to the rental rate as of March 15, 2019. [51]
California legislators vote to ban laws that force landlords to evict tenants based on criminal histories. Such policies can disproportionately affect Black and Latino renters.
[48] [49] In the City of Los Angeles, the date is October, 1978. [50] [51] These exemptions, however, may leave most of a city's total rental stock under rent control. For example, in San Francisco, as of 2014, about 75% of all rental units were rent controlled, [52] and in Los Angeles in 2014, 80% of multifamily units were rent controlled. [53]: 1