Who is the flesh-and-blood landlord with a city-spanning portfolio of apartments concealed behind an obscurely-named limited liability company? Who is the proprietor of a local restaurant, hotel or regional car …
The Los Angeles City Council took the first step on Tuesday, April 30, to protect tenants in rent-controlled buildings from being harmed by a city rule aimed at increasing L.A.’s …
The city of Concord will officially implement new rent stabilization and just cause for eviction laws Friday — 41 days after a group of residents attempted to require that voters …
Berkeley is now the latest battleground in the fight over rent control in the Bay Area, with landlord and tenant groups working to bring competing measures before voters this November …
CONCORD — The financial toll of annual rent hikes and evictions will soon be slightly less burdensome for renters living in roughly 18,100 dwellings in the East Bay. Concord lawmakers …
With the end of significant COVID-era tenant protections this week, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and some City Council members are hoping to stave off evictions that could worsen L.A.’s …
There’s a lot at stake in Concord’s debate over tenant protections, since renters occupy approximately 40% of all housing units in the city, and more than 48% of renters spend …
After years of living on the streets and in single-room-occupancy hotels, the cozy studio apartment in San Francisco’s Japantown felt like a sanctuary to Corey Lafayette. He’d moved with no …
Invitation Homes, the nation’s largest owner of single-family rentals, will pay $3.7 million to settle allegations it illegally hiked rent for hundreds of California tenants, state Attorney General Rob Bonta …
Tenant advocates are pushing to put rent control measures on the ballot in at least four Bay Area cities this November, the latest effort to expand such protections across the …