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 establishment of a rental housing board … is by design unconstitutionally biased against property owners in the city,” the Feb. 14 statement read. “Furthermore … the city’s rent control scheme [will] necessarily deprive property owners of a fair return on their investments – a standard that the United States and California Supreme Courts have consistently held to be a constitutional guarantee.”…