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Rent Control Long Beach
Long Beach heeds the call for tenant protections, advances forward forms of rent, eviction controls
The City Council voted 6-3 to move ahead crafting a controversial ordinance requiring landlords to pay two months’ rent to tenants who are displaced through no fault of their own, including tenants faced with a 10 percent or higher rent increase.
For years, tenant advocate groups have pushed Long Beach City Council to enact eviction and rent controls to no avail, but MT Evictions has long predicted that it was only a time before these efforts would gain more traction, as there was much chatter and study about the pain Long Beach renters were experiencing with rents on the uptick.
That time was Tuesday night on April 2nd when lawmakers advanced a proposal to require landlords to doll out relocation payment fees when the tenant is displaced because of rent hikes that exceed 10 percent, or because of an eviction owed to no fault of their own.
If entitled to relocation assistance, tenants in transit can expect two months rent on the way out. Exactly what this amount is will depend on the value fixed to the housing authority average fair market rental rates. This can fall anywhere between $2,706 for a studio apartment to $4,500 for a three-bedroom unit or higher, but the funds keep flowing.
Particularly vulnerable tenants like seniors and disabled persons would be the recipients of even more funds under the proposal, though landlords will not have to digger deeper into their pockets – city officials plan to find other, yet-to-be-determined sources to soften the landing for these protected groups.
Long Beach’s lurch toward rent control has been an exercise in democracy with both landlord and tenants’ right camps well represented Tuesday’s raucous City Council’s meeting. We won’t get into the political wranglings or spirited discussion over what the city’s final iteration of rent control will look like – you can get that in this Press-Telegram article. Our role at MT Eviction is not to legislate, but to communicate the rules landlords have to abide by.
We will keep you in the know as wrinkles are ironed out in Long Beach’s impending ordinance and in the interim, it may be prudent for landlords to have a heart-to-heart conversation if current rents are sustainable, especially if they haven’t raised rents in a long period of time. There may be a scarce window of opportunity to do so without the obligation of relocation payments.
Rent control in West Hollywood
Renters’ rights in West Hollywood can be best delineated by three sections. One governs maximum allowable rent, while the eviction code enumerates specific reasons why a tenant can be evicted. To make it interesting, the eviction code includes a subsection that attempts to define what types of menacing actions by landlords could rise to the level of an illegal attempt to get a tenant to vacate the unit (Harassment Code).
The first algebraic equation to solve is whether your building is subject to regulations. Rent control applies to properties with more than one dwelling unit that received their original Certificate of Occupancy before July 1, 1979. It also applies to properties with only one dwelling unit whose original Certificate of Occupancy was issued before July 1, 1979, and whose current tenants moved in before January 1, 1996. Yet, there are some properties that are covered only by the Ordinance’s Eviction and Harassment Sections.
WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE RENT?
The Rent Stabilization Department administers the Maximum Allowable Rent (MAR) for rent-stabilized units in the City of West Hollywood. Each unit has its own specific Maximum Allowable Rent. The MAR sets limits on how much a landlord may charge for rent and when the rent may be raised each year. RSHD may also adjust the MAR for individual rental units to reflect increases or decreases based on hearing decisions, increases or decreases at vacancy, and increases or decreases based on the addition or removal of housing services. The calculation of the MAR for a unit varies depending on when the tenancy began.
There are three types of MARs depending on when the current tenant moved into a rent-stabilized unit:
- Tenants who moved in before 1996;
- Tenants who moved in between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 1998;
- Tenants who moved in on or after January 1, 1999
Read the section of the three listed above that applies to the time period when the current tenant moved into the unit in question.
If you want to confirm the current Maximum Allowable Rent for a rent-stabilized unit, or the amount of the registration fee pass-through, contact an Information Counselor at the City’s Rent Stabilization Department. The counselor cannot answer any questions about the MAR for a unit unless you have the following information available:
- Tenant’s move-in date;
- Amount of rent the tenant is currently paying;
- Date and amount of the tenant’s last rent increase.
If a tenant is being charged rent above the MAR, you should talk to an Information Coordinator about the process for correcting the overcharge or for filing a rent overcharge complaint.
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