The San Diego City Council passed an ordinance 8–1 further protecting renter’s rights April 25, despite hours of public comment from landlords in opposition. Councilwoman Jennifer Campbell was the one dissenter. Now, tenants must be given 30 to 60 days’ notice before an eviction if the termination of their lease is by no cause of…

Buena Park is looking to crack down on what some city councilors call “bad actors,” who haven’t kept up with maintaining their rental properties. The Buena Park City Council voted 3–2 April 25 to require some multi-family apartment complexes to be inspected by city code-enforcement officers in a three-year cycle. Due to the split vote,…

The San Diego City Council will consider a new ordinance April 25 which its authors say will protect renters from displacement and homelessness. The goal of the ordinance is to safeguard tenants from “no-fault evictions,” which is when a landlord requires a tenant to vacate a property for certain reasons like removing the property from…

As Los Angeles prepares to implement a last set of tenant protection measures, some mom-and-pop landlords say they’ve had enough. With inflation on the rise, the rental moratorium being extended until the end of March, and now with the added burden of having to pay tenant’s relocation fees in some cases, some landlords say they…

An Orange County landlord group is seeking to overturn the protections against rent increases and evictions enacted by Santa Ana, Calif., in 2021. The Apartment Association of Orange County—who filed a complaint in the Orange County Superior Court against the city on Feb. 14—called the city’s rent control ordinance “unconstitutional” in a statement. “The city’s…