Once the tenant receives their eviction notice, they will have thirty days to notify the landlord in writing that they are interested in reoccupying if the unit is offered in the future to rent again. Rules related to remodeling work, time frame for remodeling, setting rent for the newly remodeled unit, choosing a tenant to be relocated to a comparable building in the unit instead of relocation payment, evicted tenant's ability to reoccupy the unit finished and the rental reoccupied the calculation of rates is complex. Not everyone is in favor of rent stabilization measures because the ordinance applies to all rental housing, including luxury units. The chapter to which your lease belongs is based primarily on the initial rent amount set out in your rental agreement and not on the current rent amount.
As well-conceived as it was, the proposed Rental Housing Inspection Program was effectively dead when it came to town hall later in the year. This week, the local City Council established a rent stabilization commission, the city's first body dedicated to rent regulation issues in decades. To evict a disruptive tenant, the landlord must file an application with the Rent Stabilization Program (“Rent Board”) to obtain a hearing on the matter. Chapter 5 limited the increase in permitted annual rent, the annual change in consumer prices and, most significantly, prohibited evictions without just cause.
Owners of multifamily buildings in the Westside enclave have fought hard against the city's rental regulations, arguing that they would drive more conversions to condominiums, forcing family owners out of the market. Most importantly, the city council in that action also created a registry of rental units as recommended by the Human Relations Commission. Los Angeles municipalities, such as Inglewood, Glendale and Long Beach, have been strengthening their rental regulations in recent months, instituting new protections for tenants, including limits on rent increases and mandatory relocation rates. The City will evaluate the effectiveness of the existing ordinance and consider amending it to require that a number of units in any converted building be reserved as affordable rental housing or ownership.
That year, the city council created a new rent stabilization office, commissioned a study of rent control ordinances and, in several steps of the process, created a real rent stabilization program. Chapter 6 limited the maximum rent increase allowed to 10% per annum and allowed only one increase in each 12-month period. In 1985, the city extended rent stabilization to all rental households that were not covered by the first program.
