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Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles etc. v. City of Los Angeles (2026)

Citation
Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles etc. v. City of Los Angeles (2026)
Parent Document
Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles etc. v. City of Los Angeles (2026)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
2026-05-14

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7     By contrast, Bullard v. San Francisco Residential Rent
Stabilization Bd. (2003) 106 Cal.App.4th 488, “presents an
example of a direct conflict. There, the court addressed whether
the Costa-Hawkins Act preempted a rent control ordinance that
required a landlord who evicted a tenant in order to move into
the tenant’s unit to offer the tenant another unit, if one was
vacant, at a specified rate. (Id. at pp. 489-493.) The court held
that the ‘rent control ordinance, by purporting to limit the
amount of rent a landlord may charge for a replacement unit
following an owner move-in eviction, directly contradicts’ and was
thus preempted by the Costa-Hawkins Act’s vacancy decontrol
provision allowing landlords to establish the initial rental rate for
a rental unit. (Id. at pp. 492-493, citing Civ. Code, § 1954.53,
subd. (a).)” (Pasadena, supra, 117 Cal.App.5th at p. 235.)