In a season of gift-giving, many Los Angeles residents are unwrapping a less pleasant surprise — rent increases of up to 6%. City officials have been considering major changes to the rent control ...

Proposition 33 seeks to make it easier for cities to impose new rent control limits on more types of housing. If approved, it would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 law that ...

As rents and eviction rates rise across the country, more cities and states are debating rent control policies, which housing advocates say are needed to keep more people in their homes. "The ...

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