FixLAHousing

Los Angeles rental housing · Updated September 27, 2026

L.A. is making its oldest apartments impossible to keep up.

About 624,000 rent-stabilized apartments in Los Angeles were built before 1978.1 They house more Angelenos than any program the City could build. The rules governing them now guarantee that many cost more to run than they bring in. This site explains why, in plain numbers, and what to change.

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46 mo.

RSO rents were frozen from March 2020 to January 2024. No catch-up was ever allowed.2

+27% / +11%

L.A. inflation since Feb 2020, versus the most an RSO rent could legally rise.34

6+ mo.

How long recovering a unit for unpaid rent can take, plus 1–3 months waiting for a Sheriff lockout.5

4% max

New cap on RSO increases adopted Dec. 2025, with the utility add-ons eliminated.6

LAMC Ch. XV · Rent Stabilization Ordinance

3% of almost nothing is almost nothing

A percentage cap treats a $600 rent and a $3,000 rent the same. The longer a tenant stays, the further the rent falls behind what the building costs to run. Long tenancies are good. But the rent should still cover the roof over them.

Average rent by length of tenancy

766 occupied pre-1978 units, City of Los Angeles, Sept 2026

Average rent paidAverage market rentOperating cost per unit
$0$500$1,000$1,500$2,000$2,500Under 5 yrs326 units$2,0465–10 yrs173 units$1,78110–15 yrs145 units$1,30515–20 yrs44 units$1,23520+ yrs78 units$1,034Operating cost $1,104

Source: member portfolio (AppFolio), anonymized. Pre-1978 construction used as the RSO screen. Operating cost excludes mortgage, depreciation and capital improvements.

In one member's buildings, tenants of 20+ years pay an average of $1,033.85, about 47% of market. The average unit costs $1,104.21 a month just to operate. That is before a mortgage payment, a new roof or a re-pipe.

This year's 3% increase on that rent is $31 a month. A single plumbing call costs more.

Every unit that falls below its operating cost is subsidized by the tenants in the other units, or it goes without maintenance. Over time, those are the buildings that end up boarded, sold or neglected.

Where $1,104 a month goes

Repairs & maintenance$303.18
Payroll & management$231.12
Property tax$184.64
Utilities$164.88
Other$149.66
Insurance$70.74
Total per unit$1,104.21

Operating costs vs. allowed rent

Costs have no cap. Rent does.

Insurance, water, sewer, trash, wages and materials have all climbed far faster than the rents owners are allowed to charge. Several of the steepest increases are fees set by the City itself.

What costs did vs. what an RSO rent was allowed to do

Cost increaseMaximum RSO rent increase, same period
0%20%40%60%80%100%120%140%L.A. inflation (CPI), Feb 2020 → Jun 2026+27.2%+11.4%L.A. minimum wage, Jul 2016 → Jul 2026+75.4%+26.6%Apartment insurance per unit, 2018 → Jan 2024+129%+7.1%Construction materials, Feb 2020 → Jan 2025+40.5%+4%City trash fee, 3–4 unit buildings, 2025+130%+3%City sewer charges, 2024 → 2028 (adopted)+106.2%+17%

RSO maximum assumes every allowed annual increase was taken, one per 12 months. Insurance figure is national per-unit apartment insurance (Yardi Matrix). Sewer figure is the adopted 2024–2028 schedule; the RSO figure beside it is the most the new 4% cap could allow over four years.

+129%

Apartment insurance

Nationally, per-unit apartment insurance rose 129% from 2018 to 2024.7 State Farm announced non-renewal of about 42,000 California commercial apartment policies8 and raised rental-dwelling rates 38% in 2025.9

+130%

City trash fee

For 3–4 unit buildings, the City's Solid Resources Fee went from $24.33 to $55.95 a month in 2025, its first increase in about 17 years.10

~2×

City sewer charges

Adopted in 2024: +22% in the first year, roughly doubling a typical bill by July 2028.11

+75%

L.A. minimum wage

$10.50 in 2016 to $18.42 in July 2026. Maintenance and management are labor businesses.12

+40%

Building materials

Construction input prices rose 40.5% from Feb 2020 to Jan 2025,13 and steel is up another 22.5% in the last year.14

72¢

Of each new insurance dollar

A Federal Reserve study found owners absorbed about 72 cents of every dollar of higher insurance costs from 2019 to 2024 rather than passing it to rents.15

City, County and State, 2015–2026

A mountain of new rules

Each rule has a reason. Together they form a compliance maze that a family owning one fourplex cannot navigate without a lawyer, and one small mistake can void an eviction or trigger treble damages. Here is what has been added in about ten years.

2015City
Soft-story seismic retrofit mandate

Thousands of pre-1978 wood buildings must be retrofitted. Owners may recover only half the cost, capped at $38 a month per unit.16

2017City
Tenant buyout disclosures and filing

Required LAHD disclosure before any buyout offer, a 30-day cancellation right and a City filing.17

2017City
Energy and water benchmarking (EBEWE)

Annual benchmarking plus audits every five years for buildings over 20,000 sq ft.18

2017City
RSO Rent Registry

Annual report of rent and tenancy data for every RSO unit.19

2018State
Balcony inspections (SB 721)

Engineer inspections of elevated elements in 3+ unit buildings every six years.20

2020State
AB 1482 statewide rent cap

5% plus inflation, 10% maximum, with just-cause rules.21

2020City
RSO fee +58%

Registration fee rises from $24.51 to $38.75 per unit.22

2020–24City
46-month RSO rent freeze

No increases on RSO units from March 2020 to January 2024.2

2020–23City
COVID eviction moratorium

Nearly three years without most evictions. Back rent due Aug 2023 and Feb 2024.23

2021City
Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance

$2,000–$10,000 per violation, treble damages and fee-shifting. Made damages mandatory in 2024.24

2022City
Code-enforcement fee +57%

SCEP rises from $43.32 to $67.94 per unit; tenant pass-through cut to half.25

2023City
Measure ULA transfer tax

4% to 5.5% tax on sales above about $5.4 million.26

2023City
Just Cause Ordinance

Extends eviction rules and relocation to about 400,000 non-RSO units. Every notice must be filed with LAHD within 3 business days.27

2023City
One-month rent threshold

No nonpayment eviction until the tenant owes more than a month of Fair Market Rent.28

2023City
"Economic displacement" relocation

Relocation owed after large increases on non-RSO units. Struck down by the Court of Appeal in 2026.29

2024City
Sewer charges adopted

+22% in year one, roughly doubling a typical bill by 2028.11

2024State
SB 567 and AB 12

Tighter owner move-in rules; security deposits capped at one month's rent.30

2025State
AB 2347, AB 2801, AB 2493

Double the time to answer an eviction; photo rules for deposits; screening limits.31

2025City
JCO registration fee

New $31.05 per-unit annual fee on non-RSO units.32

2025City
Right to Counsel notices

New notice posted, given at move-in and served with every eviction notice.33

2025City
Trash fee increase

City trash fee +130% for 3–4 unit buildings.10

2026City
New RSO formula

Increases limited to 90% of inflation, 1% floor, 4% cap. Utility add-ons eliminated.6

2026State
AB 628

A working stove and refrigerator become habitability requirements.34

Annual per-unit fees paid to LAHD

FeeApplies toPer unit / yr
RSO registrationRSO units$38.75
Code enforcement (SCEP)All rentals$67.94
Just Cause (JCO)Non-RSO units$31.05

Owners may pass only half of the RSO and SCEP fees to tenants.35 The RSO fee rose 58% in 2020 and SCEP rose 57% in 2022.2225

Relocation owed for a no-fault move-out, 2026–27

TenantAmount
Eligible tenant$11,000–$14,400
Qualified (senior, disabled, minor child)$23,150–$27,400

Owed even when the owner or a family member moves in.28

Buildings must now post up to six pages of required notices.California Apartment Association letter to City Council, Sept 2025, asking the City to consolidate them36

CCP §1161 · Unlawful detainer

An eviction for unpaid rent can take half a year

State law calls eviction a "summary" proceeding, with trial due within 20 days of a request. In Los Angeles, cases now run for months.37 Almost all of them are about rent that isn't being paid. The owner still pays the mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities the whole time.

96%

of eviction notices filed with the City in 2023 were for nonpayment. The average amount owed was $3,774.38

$2,328

A one-bedroom tenant must owe more than this before an owner can file for nonpayment, under the City's one-month "Fair Market Rent" threshold (May 21 to Sept 30, 2026).28

1–3 mo.

More waiting for a Sheriff lockout after the owner wins in court, per AAGLA. The Sheriff cites limited resources.539

10 court days

to answer an eviction lawsuit, doubled from 5 court days in 2025 by AB 2347.40

Where cases stall

  1. Waiting to reach the threshold.

    An owner must let more than a month of Fair Market Rent go unpaid before starting.28

  2. Notice technicalities.

    In Eshagian v. Cepeda (2025), an appeals court voided a 3-day notice because it did not state when the notice period began and ended. The state's largest apartment association told members to stop using its own forms until they were revised. Defective notices mean dismissal, often on the eve of trial, and the owner starts over.41

  3. Paperwork traps.

    Notices must be filed with LAHD within 3 business days and served with a Right to Counsel form. A miss can defeat the case.4233

  4. Motions, jury demands and bankruptcy.

    Some residents file bankruptcy on the day of trial. Relief from the stay can take days or six weeks.43

  5. The lockout line.

    After judgment, months more waiting for the Sheriff.39

A contested eviction can cost an owner "upwards of $50,000" in lost rent and fees, according to AAGLA's CEO.44

From the courtroom · Dennis P. Block

What L.A.'s eviction lawyers are seeing

Dennis Block has handled evictions for Los Angeles owners for decades and comments regularly on his radio show and on X. We checked his factual claims against the ordinances and public records before including them here.

"The concept of rent control is merely the redistribution of wealth. Actually, it is the redistribution of another person's labor."Dennis P. Block45

"…mounting mountain of regulations, disclosures, and technical traps is punishing mom-and-pop landlords for simple clerical errors."Dennis P. Block, Landlord-Tenant Talk Radio, Sept 202646

Lockouts

Block reported delivering a writ of possession to the Sheriff on Sept. 7, 2024 and receiving a Dec. 12 lockout date, where lockouts once took about two weeks.47 Other landlord attorneys report the same slowdown, and the Sheriff's Department cites limited resources.4839

Threshold

"Tenants can exploit the rent threshold by making calculated partial payments or withholding just enough rent to stay below the eviction limit."49 The City's one-month threshold was upheld on appeal in April 2026; unincorporated L.A. County has since raised its own to two months.50

Paperwork

Block has warned that the Right to Counsel form must be posted at every rental property and served with every eviction notice.51 The City confirms it, and a missing form is a defense to eviction.52 RSO owners must also pay tenants interest on security deposits at least yearly, at a rate LAHD resets each year.53

Habitability

In Block's view, the warranty of habitability "has been transformed into a 'sword' for professional rent dodgers."54

Los Angeles Housing Department

A housing department that serves one side of housing

LAHD's rent and code programs are paid for by fees on rental owners.32 It runs rent control, code enforcement, the rent registry, eviction-notice filing, anti-harassment enforcement and the tenant Right to Counsel program. We could find no office, ombudsman or advocate at LAHD whose job is to help housing providers stay in business.

The fees tell the story. The Just Cause fee alone funds 63 LAHD positions and must, by rule, recover the program's full cost with no General Fund support.32 Owners pay for the department, and the department's programs are built around enforcement against them.

Tenants deserve protection from bad actors. But the City has no program aimed at the other half of the relationship: the owner of a 1920s courtyard building with a 1982 tenancy, rising water bills and a roof that needs replacing.

Los Angeles needs both kinds of apartments, the new ones and the old ones. It will only keep the old ones if someone at City Hall is responsible for keeping them viable.

What a balanced department would add

  • An Office of the Housing Provider Advocate, with its own staff, funded from fees owners already pay
  • A hotline that answers compliance questions in writing, with safe-harbor protection for owners who follow the answer
  • One City-published notice form for each eviction type that courts must accept as valid
  • Hardship relief for owners carrying nonpaying units, paid directly to the owner
  • A seat for housing providers on every LAHD advisory body

Who houses Los Angeles

Housing providers are not the villains

City Hall rhetoric often casts landlords as the cause of the housing crisis. The people who own L.A.'s older apartments are mostly the people who answer the call when a water heater fails at 2 a.m.

30%

of RSO units are owned by landlords with just 2–4 units, mostly families and individuals.59

1965

is the median year L.A.'s housing was built, versus 1981 nationally. Older buildings need more capital, not less.60

~25%

drop in L.A. apartment prices per unit since 2022. Owners are losing equity while being told they profit.61

~50%

fewer sales of properties over the Measure ULA threshold, per UCLA researchers. Capital is avoiding L.A. rental housing.62

When small owners sell, they often sell because the math and the paperwork have become impossible. In 2026, sales by older small landlords are running about a third above pre-pandemic levels, as owners cite rent rules, insurance and compliance.63

Every owner who exits is replaced by a larger company or by no one. Neither outcome helps tenants. A city that wants well-kept affordable apartments has to treat the people who keep them as partners.

Homeownership · the missing rung

Renters build no equity. L.A. needs condos.

For many families, a condo is the first step from renting to owning, and from there to a single-family home. California has almost stopped building them. City Hall's approvals are going overwhelmingly to income-restricted rentals, which house people but leave them with nothing to show for years of payments.

36%

of homes in the City of L.A. are lived in by their owners, versus 65% nationally.6465

3%

of California's new multifamily units from 2011 to 2021 were condos. In Canada it was 38%.66

$396K / $10K

Median net worth of U.S. homeowners versus renters, 2022.67

64–80%

of the housing units L.A. approved in mid-2025 were income-restricted affordable units.68

The median condo in the Greater L.A. Realtors' market was $699,000 in April 2026, against $1.04 million for a single-family home.69 That gap is the first rung of the ladder. Today it is almost missing: condo production in California is down about 90% from its 2005–06 peak.70

Builders avoid condos for concrete reasons. Condo buyers can sue over defects for up to 10 years, versus 4 for rentals. Insurance costs three to four times as much and adds $8,000 to $18,000 per unit in L.A. An estimated 80–85% of condo projects are eventually sued.6670 This year's bipartisan fix, AB 1903, passed both houses and then died on Aug. 31 without a final vote.71

Meanwhile, the Mayor's Executive Directive 1 has fast-tracked about 43,300 proposed units of affordable rental housing since 2022.72 L.A. needs housing for its lowest-income residents. It also needs a way for working families to own. A tenant who pays rent for 20 years should have the option of building equity instead.

Proposals · numbered for reference

Fifteen fixes that keep L.A.'s apartments open

Most cost the City nothing, and several make government smaller. All of them keep strong state-law tenant protections in place, including AB 1482's rent cap and just-cause rules.

Proposal 01Structure

Let state law set the rent cap

California already caps rent increases statewide through AB 1482: 5% plus inflation, never more than 10%, with just-cause protections.21 L.A. runs a second, stricter system on top of it, with its own fees, filings, staff and litigation. Retire the local RSO cap and let tenants and owners follow one rulebook.

This shrinks City government and frees LAHD staff and fee revenue for code enforcement and assistance. If the Legislature extends AB 1482 past its 2030 sunset, as we would support, L.A. needs no parallel system at all.

Precedent: L.A. already applies just-cause rules to about 400,000 non-RSO units, many of them under AB 1482's cap.27

Proposal 02Old housing

Sunset rent control at 15 years of tenancy

RSO protection should not last forever. After 15 years in a unit, the local rent limit should end and the tenancy should move to state-law rules, with the AB 1482 cap and just cause still in force.

Owners regain the ordinary benefits of owning property, and tenants keep a capped, predictable path. No one is evicted by this change.

Precedent: California's Costa-Hawkins Act already resets RSO rents to market when a unit turns over.

Proposal 03Old housing

Bigger increases for deeply below-market rents

When a rent is below 70% of HUD Fair Market Rent, allow increases up to the state's 10% ceiling each year until it reaches that 70% line.

A 3% raise on $565 is $17. A 10% raise is $57, still gradual and still far below market, and it funds the maintenance these units need.

Precedent: AB 1482 already allows increases of up to 10% a year statewide when inflation is high.

Proposal 04COVID freeze

A one-time catch-up for the 46-month rent freeze

From March 2020 to January 2024, RSO owners could not raise rents at all, while prices in L.A. rose 17%.273 Let owners reset rent once to the level it would have reached had the normal annual increases happened. This is not back rent. Tenants keep every dollar they saved during the freeze.

Catch-up rent
$1,215.51
Increase once applied+$215.51 / mo
Tenant kept during the freeze$6,307.58

Rent × (1 + rate)years. Any increases taken since February 2024 would be credited against the reset.

Proposal 05Paperwork

Automatic annual increases, no yearly paperwork

Let owners elect once, in the lease or a single filing, to apply the allowable increase on each anniversary. The City publishes the rate, and the tenant sees it in advance.

Today every increase needs a new written notice served 30 or 90 days ahead under Civil Code §827,74 plus a current registration and registry filing.19 Owners spend hours producing documents to collect 3%.

Needs: a City ordinance plus a state amendment to §827 treating a lease-disclosed indexed increase as notice.

Proposal 06Investment

Let owners recover capital improvements

Today the City lets owners recover just 50% of an approved improvement, spread over 60 months and capped at $55 per unit per month.75 On a $120,000 roof for 12 units, the owner can recover at most about 40% of the cost, over six years.

The $55 cap has not changed since 1989.76 Adjusted for L.A. inflation, it would be about $152 today.77

Program capSetToday, if indexed
Capital improvement, $55/mo1989$152
Rehabilitation work, $75/mo1999$160
Seismic retrofit, $38/mo2016$54

Allow full recovery over the improvement's useful life, with interest, and index every cap to inflation. Treat an application as approved if LAHD doesn't act in 60 days. Cover roofs, re-pipes, electrical, seismic and energy work.

Math: cap × L.A. CPI-U June 2026 (354.325) ÷ CPI-U in the year set (1989: 128.3; 1999: 166.05; Feb 2016: 247.113).

Proposal 07Costs

When the City raises its fees, let them pass through

The City is nearly doubling sewer charges and raised trash fees 130% for small buildings, then eliminated the rent adjustment for owner-paid utilities.6 Allow owners to pass through increases in City-set utility fees above inflation, or to bill utilities by fair allocation.

Precedent: the RSO had utility add-ons until February 2026.78

Proposal 08Costs

Late fees on the same terms government charges

California courts void a flat late fee unless the owner can prove it matches actual damages.79 Government holds itself to no such standard:

Paid late toPenalty
LAHD code-enforcement fee (SCEP)+100%
LAHD RSO and JCO fees+50%
City business taxup to +40%
County property tax10%, then 1.5%/mo
LADWP bill1.5%/mo

Set a statutory late fee owners can rely on: for example, 5% of the rent after a 5-day grace period, plus 1.5% a month on unpaid balances, the rate LADWP and the County already charge.

Sources: LAHD, L.A. Finance, County Treasurer, LADWP.80818283 Needs: a state amendment to Civil Code §1671 for residential rent.

Proposal 09Evictions

Evictions in 45 days, with rent paid into court

A tenant contesting a nonpayment case should deposit the rent owed, and rent as it comes due, with the court. If the tenant doesn't, the court enters judgment. Set firm hearing deadlines and fund Sheriff lockouts within 14 days of a writ.

Tenants with a real defense keep it, and their money is safe in escrow. Cases filed only to buy time end quickly.

Precedent: Florida Statutes §83.60(2) requires exactly this deposit, and failure is "an absolute waiver" of defenses other than payment.84 California set firm deadlines for commercial evictions in 2025 (AB 1384).85

Proposal 10Evictions

No threshold on a 3-day notice to pay or quit

Rent owed is rent owed. Repeal the one-month threshold so that any unpaid rent can be the basis of a 3-day notice and, if unpaid, an eviction case, as state law provides. When a notice has a technical defect that harmed no one, let the owner correct it without dismissing the case and starting over.

Today the City bars eviction until the balance exceeds a full month of Fair Market Rent, which invites tenants to pay just enough to stay under it.86

Status: AAGLA has asked the California Supreme Court to review the threshold (June 2026).87

Proposal 11Fairness

Harassment rules that protect everyone

L.A.'s anti-harassment ordinance covers only a landlord's conduct toward a tenant, with penalties of $2,000 to $10,000 per violation and treble damages.88 State law is the same.89 Owners, managers and maintenance workers who are threatened, blocked from making repairs or targeted with bad-faith complaints have only a general restraining order.90

Apply the same standard and the same penalties to harassment of owners, property staff and neighboring tenants.

Precedent: none that we could find, anywhere. L.A. can be first.

Proposal 12Paperwork

One notice. One filing. One annual bill.

Consolidate every required posting into a single City-published notice. Combine registration, fees, the rent registry and the JCO filing into one annual online submission.

Stop forcing owners to bill tenants $1.61 and $2.83 a month for the tenant share of the RSO and SCEP fees.91 Let the tenant share be charged once a year, rounded to the nearest $5: one $55 charge instead of 24 tiny line items.

Precedent: until 2020, the RSO share was collected once a year, in August.4

Proposal 13LAHD

A Housing Provider Advocate inside LAHD

Create an office with staff, a written-answer hotline, safe-harbor forms and direct owner hardship relief, funded from fees owners already pay. Give housing providers a seat on every LAHD advisory body.

Cost: a share of the fees already collected from owners.

Proposal 14Accountability

Accountability for eviction-defense spending

Require quarterly public reporting of cost per case, outcomes and months added. Publish the City Attorney's forensic audit. Verify client income. Move dollars toward rental assistance paid to owners.

Basis: the City Attorney's questions about $90M+ in spending since 2021.55

Proposal 15Ownership

Make market-rate condos buildable again, at every size

Give for-sale housing the same fast lane ED1 gives affordable rentals: ministerial approval and fixed review deadlines for market-rate condo and townhome projects, from a four-unit small-lot project to a tower. At the state level, pass construction-defect reform like AB 1903 so a condo carries a warranty and repair process instead of a decade of litigation risk.

More condos mean more starter homes, more owners with a stake in their neighborhoods, and a path from renting to owning a house. That is affordability that builds wealth.

Evidence: Terner Center (UC Berkeley) and SPUR research on construction-defect liability.66 Counterpoint we take seriously: defect liability is not the only cause, and interest rates and insurance matter too.71

Fair questions

What critics say, and our answers

We want officials to hear the strongest arguments on both sides. Here are the ones we hear most.

Didn't a City-commissioned study find landlords' income grew faster than inflation?

The 2024 Economic Roundtable study found RSO owners' net operating income grew faster than inflation (3.9% versus 2.6% a year), and RSO rents run about 19% below comparable non-RSO units.92 Averages across all RSO units include every unit that turned over and reset to market. They hide the long tenancies where rent now sits below operating cost. The study also predates the 2025 trash increase, the new sewer schedule, the 2025 insurance increases and the new 4% cap.

The same study found operating expenses for low-income housing in the West rose 67% from 2010 to 2022, against 38% inflation.59

Won't ending local rent control cause mass displacement?

Our proposals keep AB 1482 in place: a hard 10% ceiling, just-cause eviction rules and relocation for no-fault evictions. What changes is the second local layer. Tenants who need help paying rent should get direct, means-tested assistance, which protects them without starving the building.

Wasn't the RSO's old 3% floor generous in low-inflation years?

From 2010 to 2019, yes: the 3% floor ran ahead of inflation. Since 2020 the opposite has happened. L.A. prices rose 27% from February 2020 to June 2026, while an RSO rent could rise at most 11%.3 The City has now lowered the floor to 1% and the cap to 4%, so owners lose in high-inflation years and gain little in low ones.6

Don't tenants need lawyers when facing eviction?

Tenants with real defenses, such as bad conditions or retaliation, should be heard. Our objection is to paying for delay in cases where rent simply isn't being paid, with no reporting on cost or results. A rent deposit requirement protects the tenant with a real defense and ends the cases that exist only to buy time.

Doesn't L.A. need subsidized rentals for its lowest-income residents?

Yes. Households earning far below the median cannot buy even a $700,000 condo, and they need affordable rentals. Our point is balance. When most approvals go to income-restricted rentals and almost no condos get built, working families lose the ownership path entirely. Both belong in the plan.

For elected officials and neighbors

Help keep L.A.'s apartments standing

FixLAHousing.com is published by Los Angeles housing providers who own and manage older apartment buildings across the City. It is organized by Adrian of Malin Asset Management. We welcome corrections, questions and invitations to meet.

If you hold office

  1. Ask LAHD for the number of RSO units renting below their operating cost.
  2. Introduce a motion for the rent-deposit rule and a 45-day eviction target (Proposal 09).
  3. Require the quarterly eviction-defense report and publish the City Attorney's audit (Proposal 14).

Contact us

Write to us for data, a building tour, or testimony at a hearing.

Sources

Every figure on this page, with its source

Member portfolio figures come from one management company's records and are anonymized. Everything else is public. If you find an error, tell us and we will correct it.

  1. LAHD, What is covered under the RSO. housing.lacity.gov
  2. LAHD, Renter protections: rent freeze, moratorium and repayment dates. housing.lacity.gov
  3. BLS, Consumer Price Index, Los Angeles area (Feb 2020 278.657; Jun 2026 354.325). www.bls.gov
  4. LAHD, RSO allowable rent increase bulletin (history). housing.lacity.gov
  5. AAGLA, Appeals decision in eviction threshold lawsuit (Jun 2026). members.aagla.org
  6. AAGLA, L.A. City passes reduced RSO formula ordinance (Dec 2025). members.aagla.org
  7. Yardi Matrix, Multifamily expenses research bulletin (Mar 2024). www.ncsha.org
  8. Insurance Journal, State Farm non-renewals in California (Mar 2024). www.insurancejournal.com
  9. Carrier Management, State Farm emergency rate increases approved (May 2025). www.carriermanagement.com
  10. NBC Los Angeles, City Council approves trash fee increase (Oct 2025). www.nbclosangeles.com
  11. ABC7, L.A. moves forward with higher sewer fees through 2028 (Aug 2024). abc7.com
  12. CalChamber, Local minimum wage increases for July 1, 2026. hrwatchdog.calchamber.com
  13. Associated Builders and Contractors, materials prices up 40.5% since Feb 2020 (Feb 2025). www.abc.org
  14. ConstructConnect / AGC, construction input costs (Aug 2026). news.constructconnect.com
  15. Federal Reserve, Rising property insurance costs and pass-through to rents (Sep 2025). www.federalreserve.gov
  16. LADBS, Soft-story retrofit program. dbs.lacity.gov
  17. LAHD, Tenant buyout notification program. housing.lacity.gov
  18. LADBS, Existing Buildings Energy and Water Efficiency ordinances. dbs.lacity.gov
  19. LAHD, RSO overview (registration, rent registry). housing.lacity.gov
  20. Rimkus, California balcony inspection law (SB 721). rimkus.com
  21. City & County of San Francisco, California Tenant Protection Act (AB 1482) summary. www.sf.gov
  22. AAGLA, RSO registration fee update (2020). members.aagla.org
  23. LAHD, Renter protections (COVID emergency dates). housing.lacity.gov
  24. LAHD, Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance. housing.lacity.gov
  25. AAGLA, City approves SCEP fee increase. members.aagla.org
  26. Hanson Bridgett, Measure ULA thresholds update (Jul 2026). www.hansonbridgett.com
  27. LAHD, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance. housing.lacity.gov
  28. LAHD, Renter Protections Notice (FMR thresholds, relocation amounts, AB 1482 cap). housing.lacity.gov
  29. Wallace Law, Court of Appeal holds economic displacement ordinance preempted (Apr 2026). www.wallacelaw.com
  30. California Apartment Association, security deposit limit now in effect. caanet.org
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