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Equitable Rent: Rent Stabilization Standards in the City of Los Angeles

September 16, 2024 / By Ken Baar, Patrick Burns, Daniel Flaming and Anthony W. Orlando / City of Los Angeles Housing Department

One-fifth of Los Angeles renters have incomes below the federal poverty threshold. Half of them spend over 90 percent of their income for rent. Vulnerable renters are more likely to be under 35 years old, live alone, and have annual incomes below $20,000.
Photograph by Patrick Burns, ERt staff. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff. Taken at In-N-Out restaurant in Culver City, CA 2019-11-09

In Harm’s Way: California Workers at High Risk of Unemployment in the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 10, 2020 / By Daniel Flaming and Patrick Burns / Economic Roundtable

Meeting the basic needs of unemployed workers throughout this economic downturn is essential for preserving our social fabric and civic institutions. California needs to take direct action to address the economic emergency caused by COVID-19 that is causing widespread business closures and extremely high unemployment. Forty-three percent of California workers have a high risk of unemployment.
From ERt report, "City of San José ARO (Apartment Rent Ordinance): Research to Support 2016 Updates to The Rent Stabilization Regulations." Owned by Economic Roundtable, photograph of rent stabilized apartment building in San José, California, by Patrick Burns, ERt staff.

City of San José ARO: Research to Support 2016 Updates to the Rent Stabilization Regulations

April 16, 2016 / By Ken Baar, Patrick Burns and Daniel Flaming / City of San José California

San José, California's third most populous city, regulates rent increases for older apartment units through its Apartment Rent Ordinance (ARO). To help inform policy deliberations by the San José City Council and Housing Department staff, this report analyzes demographic characteristics of ARO tenants, characteristics of ARO apartments, compares ARO allowable rents increases with Rent Stabilization Ordinances in other cities, analyzes the debt-service pass-through, and financial outcomes of ARO rental properties.

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