Articles from Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (“AAGLA”) (www.aagla.org) announced today that it has filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the California Supreme Court petitioning a decision rendered by the State of California Court of Appeals, Second District, in its lawsuit seeking to prohibit the City of Los Angeles’ enforcement of Ordinance No. 187763 (“Threshold Ordinance”). Under the Threshold Ordinance, a financial threshold of past due rent (equal to one month’s fair market rent as set by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department) must be met prior to initiating formal collection efforts or eviction proceedings.

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) announced on Friday that it had prevailed in its lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles seeking to overturn the city’s Ordinance No. 187764 (“Relocation Assistance Ordinance”), which forced rental housing providers to pay substantial relocation fees when implementing a rent increase exceeding a specified amount on housing legally exempt from local and state rent stabilization rules.

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) has urged its members and rental housing providers throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area to exercise restraint in their collection efforts of COVID rental debt accruing prior to the termination of various state and local emergency declarations. This issue has risen to the forefront following the recent, August 1st deadline imposed upon renters in the City of Los Angeles requiring repayment of unpaid COVID rental debt in arrears from March 2020 through September 2021. A second deadline, February 1, 2024, requires repayment of the balance of unpaid COVID rental debt from October 2021 through March 2023.

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles (“City”) seeking to nullify and enjoin the City from enforcing an ordinance prohibiting rental housing providers from increasing rent (“Rent Freeze Ordinance”) as violative of the United States and California Constitutions on the grounds that it deprives the Association’s members of due process by effectively denying property owners from implementing annual rent increases mandated by the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. The lawsuit, which was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, seeks to overturn the City’s Ordinance No. 186607, which is codified in Los Angeles Municipal Code § 151.32.

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) announced on Friday that it had filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles seeking a writ of mandate and declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the City’s enforcement of two, recently passed, so-called renter protection ordinances. The lawsuit, which was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, seeks to overturn the City’s (i) Ordinance No. 187763 requiring a financial threshold of past due rent (equal to one month’s fair market rent) be met prior to initiating eviction proceedings, and (ii) Ordinance No. 187764, which forces rental housing providers to pay substantial penalties should a rent increase on housing legally exempt from either local or state rent stabilization rules exceed a specified percentage.

The Apartment Owners Association of California, Inc. (AOA) and the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) jointly announced today that they have been granted a preliminary injunction they had been seeking to prevent enforcement of Los Angeles County’s broad-based moratorium on residential tenant evictions. In the United States District Court judge’s order granting the landlord group’s motion for preliminary injunction, multiple violations of the “Vagueness Doctrine” and the complete lack of specific standards for how to apply various provisions contained within the County’s eviction moratorium are cited. The District Court judge’s order concludes that “Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Resolution’s Tenant Protections are unconstitutionally vague.”

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (www.aagla.org) has received approval by the National Apartment Association of its application seeking territory expansion permitting it to expand its territory and cover the Southeastern Section of Los Angeles County previously held by the Apartment Association, California Southern Cities (AACSC). As a result, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ charter granted by the National Apartment Association has now expanded to cover the entirety of Los Angeles County. Along with the approval for territory expansion obtained by the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ Territory, the charter of the AACSC was revoked by the National Apartment Association and AACSC is no longer affiliated with the National Apartment Association.