REDWOOD CITY — A proposed rent control resolution could be on the ballot in Redwood City this November after a coalition of community members presented more than 6,000 signatures to the Redwood City clerk’s office on Tuesday. The Redwood City Fair and Affordable Housing Ordinance, which was put together by a coalition of community members … Read more
CONCORD — Maria Verduzco has two more weeks to move out of the three-bedroom house she and her three children have called home since 2021. In late January, she received a 60-day notice that her landlord planned to terminate her tenancy by April 1 — without any listed reason. She said she had never missed … Read more
By Ben Christopher | CalMatters Some of the state’s most powerful legislators want Big Landlord out of California’s single family neighborhoods. The Legislature will consider at least three bills this year to keep so-called institutional investors from gobbling up too many of the state’s widely coveted single-family homes. Apartment buildings have long been an asset … Read more
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 this month agreed to increase “just cause” eviction protections to most of the city’s tenants and establish rent stabilization for roughly half of its rental … Read more
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to New York’s rent control and eviction laws, putting an end to a case that might have had dramatic implications for California cities’ own tenant protection measures. A group of New York landlords had sought to overturn the state’s Rent Stabilization Law, arguing that its … Read more
Concord renters will have to wait a little longer to hear the City Council’s decision on a proposed rent control ordinance. Dozens of landlords and several tenants showed up to Tuesday’s city council meeting, contributing to nearly four hours of public comment on the city’s proposed rent control ordinance. Although the vote was originally scheduled … Read more
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 over 30% of their income on housing costs, according to city staff. Concord policymakers have spent more than a decade debating how best to protect … Read more
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 furniture, so friends found him a mattress on Craigslist and contributed a massive globe and a mirror framed in wrought-iron leaves. He bought pots and … Read more
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 announced. The attorney general’s office says the company — which is also the single largest owner of residential property in the Bay Area — raised … Read more
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 region as tens of thousands continue struggling with sky-high housing costs. Advocacy groups this month plan to file proposed rent control ordinances with Redwood City, … Read more