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What Rental Housing Providers Need to Know We flagged this one coming. In our last update, we mentioned that the Los Angeles City Council was considering another extension of the City’s emergency price gouging restrictions. That vote is now official. On July 1, the Council extended the restrictions through July 30, 2026….

A notice that was compliant last year may no longer satisfy the City of Los Angeles requirements today. Rental housing providers who continue using an earlier version of the Renter Protection Notice could create avoidable compliance problems, even when the underlying notice to the tenant is otherwise valid. The Los Angeles Housing…

An eviction that begins as a straightforward nonpayment matter can change shape entirely the moment a tenant raises a habitability claim. Los Angeles landlords who do not understand how these two areas of law intersect often find themselves caught off guard when a simple unlawful detainer proceeding rapidly becomes a much longer,…