Housing activists accuse rental giant of excessive payment hikes.
City officials are proposing stricter enforcement, higher fines and new technology in part to prevent rent-controlled apartments from being listed on Airbnb and Booking.com.
A measure seemingly targeting the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has put forth three rent control ballot measures, is on its way to narrowly passing.
State law allows landlords to evict tenants without cause if they are doing major renovations. Rent controlled tenants say it can be abused to kick them out for those who can pay more.
Following the money reveals the gaming of the state’s initiative process.
Los Angeles officials are struggling to crack down on illegal rentals during a housing crisis. Here’s how to make sure you’re a responsible vacationer.
Amid an affordable housing crisis, dozens of rent-controlled buildings are listed on short-term rental websites. A 2018 law was supposed to stop that, but the city is struggling to enforce it.
Funes’ rent-controlled apartment is in the name of her recently deceased husband. Her landlord says that’s cause for eviction.
The 1985 Ellis Act blocks cities from preserving rent-controlled housing. Critics say it needs to go.
Rent-controlled Barrington Plaza tenants, many of whom moved to more expensive apartments, are weighing a lawsuit.
Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.
Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial executive now count on each other as renters battling corporate landlords. They are members of the largest tenants union in the country.
Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial marketing executive now count on each other as fellow renters battling corporate landlords.
The city’s ‘Right to Organize’ ordinance requires landlords to recognize tenant associations in their buildings.
The promising new tool in the fight to preserve affordable housing: a coalition of tenant unions.
The rent moratorium extension worked out in Sacramento is a flawed and incomplete emergency measure.
Rent control polls well among Californians, but statewide and local initiatives were no match for an avalanche of real estate industry cash.
“Plain folks” in ads warn against rent control – but a corporate-funded campaign by the real estate industry raises pay-to-play questions.
When Silicon Valley rents came north, Santa Rosa passed a rent control ordinance. Then the real estate industry went to war.
The real estate industry is a powerhouse opponent of rent control in California politics. But tenant activists are upping their electoral game.