AOA PAC is on the front lines defending property rights and empowering housing providers across California. We’re pushing back against harmful legislation and advocating for fair treatment for rental property owners. Join us on January 10th at the Torrance Marriott for the AOA PAC Luncheon featuring L.A. District Attorney Nathan Hochman, as we discuss how…
Several years ago, an author defended looting in an NPR interview by arguing, “It’s just property. It’s not actually hurting any people.” That justification stayed with me. How many Americans have forgotten that private property is how human beings implement their freedom in the world? Liberty is not just the freedom to think, but also…
California wildfire rebuilding restrictions are creating new legal battles as property owners face bureaucratic hurdles in the wake of devastating fires. We are all sadly aware of the deadly fires that ripped through the coastal Los Angeles community of Pacific Palisades and through Altadena at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. Schools, businesses,…
Washington, DC; November 13, 2023: Pacific Legal Foundation, in partnership with Paul Beard of FisherBroyles, LLP, filed its opening brief in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, arguing that legislatures cannot use the permit process to coerce owners into paying exorbitant development fees. “Holding building permits hostage in exchange for exorbitant fees is extortion plain and…
Despite valiant efforts by rental housing providers statewide, including tens of thousands of emails and phone calls, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved various amendments to SB 466. The bill now advances to the Senate floor and possibly onto the Assembly for further review. What is SB 466? SB 466 would eliminate many of the…
“To own property that we pay taxes on and then to have government rob us of our property rights is just wrong. That’s not what our country is supposed to be about.” — Elizabeth Riddick, PLF Client Elizabeth Riddick describes her mother, Renee Sperling, as her Rock of Gibraltar: always there to accompany and empower…
A famous president once said “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction … it must be fought for, protected, and handed on” for our children to do the same.
The Judicial Council’s delay until 90-days after the COVID emergency is lifted to open the courts to hear eviction cases will devastate landlords, tenants and their families, the wellbeing of innocent tax-paying, by-standing citizens, plus people’s, the City’s and the State’s economies and, ultimately, the cause of justice.
I watched with resignation the vote in the State Assembly on our own David Chiu’s AB 1482 that would bring statewide rent control to California. The pro-housing forces were quite successful in diluting some of the harm and there’s always a (slight) chance that the bill will be defeated in the State Senate.
Dan and Maria Levin live in the upstairs unit of their two-story home in San Francisco, California. They would like to use the lower unit for friends and family, but a city ordinance required them to pay their tenant $118,000 to withdraw the unit from the rental market. This amount represents the difference between the…