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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.
Tenants sue state over rent relief program California’s emergency rental assistance program has sent more than $4 billion to about 344,000 households since March 2021, according to HCD data.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated the program would have resulted in $72 Billion in deficit reduction in the first ten years, including $2 Billion in Medicaid savings because of individuals receiving benefits under the CLASS Act that they could have received under Medicaid, and because no benefits would be paid out at all in the first ...
A survey conducted in October 2018 by the Los Angeles Times and the University of Southern California found that 28% of eligible California voters believed that the lack of rent control was the main contributing factor to California's housing affordability crisis. 24% of respondents believed that the most significant cause of the housing crisis ...
Unscrupulous landlords could conceal defects and, if the tenant complains, threaten to raise the rent at the end of the lease. With rent control, tenants can request that hidden defects, if they exist, be repaired to comply with building code requirements, without fearing retaliatory rent increases. Rent control could thus compensate somewhat ...
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A study by NYU's Furman Center takes a more positive view on rent regulation, especially as a tool to slow gentrification: "Although rent regulation is ill-targeted if viewed as a purely redistributional program," write the three authors of the study, "as a program to promote longer-term lower rent tenancies for the tenants who benefit from it ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... California’s tenant protection law limits rent increases to a maximum 10% a year. But many ...