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Tenant Protection Act
About the Campaign
After sustained advocacy from Public Advocates and tenants throughout the state, California passed its first-ever law that provides renters statewide with protections against rent-gouging and unfair evictions. These protections will cover more than eight million renters in California.
“Renters don’t have the luxury of waiting years for market rate housing to trickle down. 2019 is the year California steps up and protects tenants.”
This law will stop rent gouging and prevent landlords from raising rents more than 5% plus the Consumer Price Index (CPI) annually. It also prevents landlords from arbitrarily evicting renters — they must now have a documented “just cause” to evict a tenant.
The law is not perfect — apartments built in the last 15 years are exempt. So are single-family homes, unless they are owned by a corporation or other Wall Street landlord such as Invitation Homes, which owns 12,000 single-family home rentals in the state.
Public Advocates was proud to co-sponsor this bill along with ACCE, PICO California, PolicyLink, SEIU CA, the Western Center on Law and Poverty, and the TechEquity Collaborative.
Resources
- Eligibility Navigator and Rent Increase Calculator
- Toolkit and Template Letters
- Informational Flyers (including updates to the law as of Apr 1, 2024) in Armenian, Chinese, English, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese)
- Informational Flyers in English and Spanish