The measure would lower California’s current rent cap from 10% to 5% annually, or 2% plus inflation, whichever is lower, and ...

A contentious housing bill that would have capped rent increases to 5% a year died in the Assembly on Tuesday, a decision ...

AB 1157, known as the Affordable Rent Act, didn’t get enough votes to advance out of committee. It is unlikely to resurface ...

State Sen. Jesse Arreguín, a Berkeley Democrat and renter, will take over his chamber’s Housing Committee, succeeding Aisha ...

Dozens of California renters are expected to gather at the California state Capitol on Monday, calling on lawmakers to pass a ...

LA has had rent control for decades. Still, most of the city’s renters pay more than what the federal government considers ...

Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a series examining the roots of America’s housing crisis. To read the earlier pieces, visit the roots of today’s housing crisis. In the 1960s, the ...

The new year doesn’t just bring new gifts and new resolutions. It also brings new laws. State and local lawmakers have a lot on tap for 2026 when it comes to housing laws that will affect Southern ...

To the editor: Staff writer Roger Vincent’s recent article on why developers aren’t building in Los Angeles misses the real issue (“Almost no one is building new apartments in Los Angeles. Here’s why, ...

California lawmakers are confronting the hot topic of rent control ahead of a legislative vote aimed at a statewide rent cap.

With America’s rent crisis deepening, state and local leaders should use rent control to protect residents, preserve ...

Instead of introducing regulations that will disincentivize multifamily investment, policies should focus on removing ...