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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 37

Citation
Section 37
Parent Document
Golden Gateway Center v. San Francisco Residential Stabilization, 87 Cal. Rptr. 2d 332 (1999)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
1999-08-02

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at p. 1263.) In upholding the rent reduction the court rejected the landlord’s argument that there must exist a component of willful neglect or affirmative wrongdoing on the part of the landlord to justify a decrease in rent. It held that the statute’s plain meaning required only a finding that there had been “a substantial change in the services or facilities provided by the landlord. It does not require that the Rent Administrator look beyond the substantial change to ascertain whether an affirmative act by the landlord caused the change.” (Ibid.)