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Tenants union. A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters. [ 1][ 2] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.
Rent regulation is a system of laws for the rental market of dwellings, with controversial effects on affordability of housing and tenancies. Generally, a system of rent regulation involves: Price controls, limits on the rent that a landlord may charge, typically called rent control or rent stabilization. Eviction controls: codified standards ...
As of 2019, about 182 U.S. municipalities have rent control: 99 in New Jersey, 63 in New York, 18 in California, one in Maryland, and Washington, D.C. [70] The five most populous cities with rent control are New York City; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Oakland; and Washington, D.C. [70] The sole Maryland municipality with rent control is Takoma Park.
Dec. 16—Some residents of an Española apartment complex have formed a tenants' union, citing declining conditions and skyrocketing utility fees as their impetus. The group's leading organizer ...
California started its rent relief program in March 2021 to help eligible tenants pay off back rent that accumulated during the pandemic. HCD administers the program, which closed to new ...
Under the arcane tax rule of possessory interest, thousands of California tenants in subsidized housing could face individual tax bills upwards of $1,000 a year.
Ellis Act. The Ellis Act (California Government Code Chapter 12.75) [ 1] is a 1985 California state law that allows landlords to evict residential tenants to "go out of the rental business" in spite of desires by local governments to compel them to continue providing rental housing. The legislature passed the Ellis Act in response to the ...
The UT Tenants Union hopes to create a 10-year plan to help pass effective policy changes at the university, system and city levels to protect renters in West Campus, said Gilker, who also serves ...