In two days, sheriff’s deputies were scheduled to evict the two of them from the subsidized apartment they’d shared for the last 15 years — even after a local rental assistance program offered to pay ...

Elected officials in some California cities and counties are hoping to set up right to counsel programs similar to San Francisco’s. In December the Los Angeles City Council asked its city attorney to ...

Under California law, tenants have rights when a rental property needs repairs. If something is making the unit ...

Attorney Dennis Block is accused of keeping unearned fees, not paying court sanctions on time and representing both tenant ...

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AB 1157, dubbed the “Affordable Rent Act,” would have expanded the 2019 Tenant Protection Act to more renters and lowered the amount rent can increase each year. It would have also made those changes ...

The new law ensures that commercial unlawful detainer actions will proceed in a timely fashion from the earliest stages of the case, consistent with the overarching objective of promptly adjudicating ...

A Redfin study found the Los Angeles-Orange County metro area had the second-highest percentage of renters in the nation at 51%, behind the San Jose metro at 52%. New York came next with 49% followed ...

“This is a very small ask from the state of California,” Wahab, a Democrat representing the Fremont area, recently told her fellow lawmakers. “(It’s) very small to allow people 14 days to either ask ...

Sen. Aisha Wahab implored her colleagues to think of hospitalized patients and struggling families as she pitched a proposal to give tenants a full two weeks to pay their past due rent before their ...