Inland cities including Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia and Riverside — once cheaper rent options than pricey places such as the Bay Area — are no longer refuges from California’s housing affordability crisis.
Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing.
Other corporate landlords in the industry will argue that bills expanding renter protections will worsen the housing crisis by killing production. This couldn’t be further from the truth
Though groups representing landlords and real estate continue spending millions on lobbying and supporting candidates, tenants rights groups are starting to chip away at their influence
The Rent Control Board will meet this week to determine allowable increases for rent controlled units and while the proposed figure is significantly higher than increases in recent history, it is less than half of the figure that roiled renters last year
Santa Monica’s Rent Control Board took a stance on several proposed laws last week backing measures that would allow tenants to relocate, expand rent control to newly constructed buildings
Santa Monica’s mix of rent controlled and market rate housing make it difficult to find unified data on the housing picture but some data is available for both kinds of units.
Santa Monica residents have until Monday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. to apply for the city’s one-time rent relief program.
Council budgeted $750,000 for the Rent Control
Kurt Gonska was unanimously appointed as an interim commissioner of the Rent Control Board last week to fill the spot left vacant in August when Board Member Naomi Sultan resigned
Qualifying rent-controlled tenants living in Santa Monica who cannot afford to pay rent increases over 3% due to COVID-19 will be protected by a new emergency temporary eviction moratorium beginning
The City of Santa Monica announced it would open up applications for rent-burdened residents to apply for relief beginning this Monday, Aug. 29, at 8 a.m.
The program is
