Editorial: Los Angeles can find a fairer way to raise rent
The Los Angeles City Council is considering changing the way it sets annual increases allowed for rent-controlled properties for the…
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Tenants often face eviction without lawyers. LA wants to fix that
In a bustling hallway on the sixth floor of a downtown courthouse, Alcira Ayala sat on a bench with her…
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Reaches Agreement on Precarious Living Conditions
The nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation will pay current and former tenants of a Skid Row residential hotel $575,000 to settle…
How Los Angeles's so-called mansion tax hurts renters
September 16, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor: The problem with the so-called mansion tax implemented by Measure…
San Francisco seeks to ban software that critics accuse of inflating rents
This week, San Francisco decided to ban the use of property management software that critics say is used to artificially…
A law has come into force limiting security deposits to one month.
In California, the days when you had to save up the equivalent of two or three months' rent for a…
A house under $500,000 in the Bay Area? The trick is that it is leased until 2053.
Imagine the first morning you wake up inside your new home in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. A…
Barrington Plaza evictions did not meet legal requirements, judge says
The eviction of hundreds of tenants at the sprawling Westside apartment complex, Barrington Plaza, did not meet the requirements of…
Letters to the editor: Humans are the worst species of tenants
People who oppose universal pet-friendly housing ignore the most harmful residents of all: humans.
Why pet-friendly rentals make many renters miserable
To the editor: Brett Yates believes we can alleviate the housing crisis by making all rentals pet-friendly. He makes an…