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  2. For first time, California civil rights officials file ... - AOL

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    California civil rights officials have sued two Sacramento landlords, alleging they illegally harassed and evicted a tenant because she paid through a Section 8 voucher. The lawsuit, announced ...

  3. Should California landlords be required to allow pets? This ...

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    Now a California lawmaker is trying to change that. Assembly Member Matt Haney (D- San Francisco) has introduced legislation, AB 2216, that would require landlords to rent to households that ...

  4. Ellis Act - Wikipedia

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    Ellis Act. The Ellis Act (California Government Code Chapter 12.75) [1] is a 1985 California state law that allows landlords to evict residential tenants to "go out of the rental business" in spite of desires by local governments to compel them to continue providing rental housing. The legislature passed the Ellis Act in response to the ...

  5. Section 8 (housing) - Wikipedia

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    The main Section 8 program involves the voucher program. A voucher may be either "project-based"—where its use is limited to a specific apartment complex (public housing agencies (PHAs) may reserve up to 20% of its vouchers as such [9])—or "tenant-based", where the tenant is free to choose a unit in the private sector, is not limited to specific complexes, and may reside anywhere in the ...

  6. Unruh Civil Rights Act - Wikipedia

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    The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits any business in California from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical ...

  7. Section 8 notice - Wikipedia

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    A Section 8 notice, [1] also known as the Section 8 notice to quit or Form 3. It is a prerequisite if the landlord of an assured tenancy or assured shorthold tenancy wishes to obtain possession order from the court, thereby ending the tenancy, for a reason based on a circumstance entitling the landlord to possession under the grounds pleaded.

  8. Salvaging the real estate market by becoming a Section 8 landlord

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    Real estate prices have bottomed out. Depending on the market-- Las Vegas, Arizona, Southern California -- house prices can be insanely low. In Broward County, Fla., for example, homes that once ...

  9. Low-Income Housing Tax Credit - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a federal program in the United States that awards tax credits to housing developers in exchange for agreeing to reserve a certain fraction of rent-restricted units for lower-income households. [1] The program was created under the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86) to incentivize the use of ...