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James Skelly Wright. Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (D.C. Cir. 1970), was a case decided by the D.C. Circuit that first established the warranty of habitability in landlord–tenant law. The court determined that if the premises become uninhabitable, the tenant is freed from their obligation to pay rent.
The study analyzes housing code violation data sets and interviews with public officials, housing researchers, community organizers and tenants in cities such as Los Angeles, St. Louis, New ...
The Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act ("Costa–Hawkins") is a California state law enacted in 1995, placing limits on municipal rent control ordinances. Costa–Hawkins preempts the field in two major ways. [1] First, it prohibits cities from establishing rent control over certain kinds of residential units, such as single-family dwellings ...
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before ...
D.C. Councilmember Robert White, chairman of the Council's Housing Committee, expressed concern. "One fear is that people could be put on the street if housing projects close down," White said ...
41.18, also known as Los Angeles Municipal Code, Section 41.18 (d) (1963, amended 2021), is an ordinance in Los Angeles prohibiting by law that there will be no "sitting, lying, or sleeping, or ... storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property in the public right-of-way."[1] Sec. 41.18 (d) dictates the distance any person must be ...
LOS ANGELES — The VA must build more than 2,500 units of housing for homeless veterans on its sprawling campus in west Los Angeles, a federal judge ruled Friday.. U.S. District Judge David O ...
The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)) is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence. It is the largest state civil rights agency in the United ...