You can now add two more to the ever-growing list of cities incorporating their own rent control ordinances. Pomona’s Urgency Ordinance On August 1st, the Pomona City Council adopted a rent control ordinance with just cause eviction requirements and a rent increase cap. It is effective immediately, but a permanent version of the ordinance is…
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case from New York state that had the potential to upend rent control laws not only in that state but nationwide. The case was a challenge to New York’s Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019. The plaintiffs, the Community Housing Improvement Program and the Rent Stabilization…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Governor Newsom signs an extensive housing package consisting of 56 bills to help address California’s decades-in-the-making housing crisis by simplifying and expediting the construction of new housing, protecting tenants, and keeping housing affordable. SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that he has signed 56 bills into law that incentivize and reduce…