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Drouet v. Superior Court, 104 Cal. Rptr. 2d 159 (2001)

Citation
Drouet v. Superior Court, 104 Cal. Rptr. 2d 159 (2001)
Parent Document
Drouet v. Superior Court, 104 Cal. Rptr. 2d 159 (2001)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
2001-05-23

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In short, a local rent control law or other measure may not impose an additional substantive burden on the landlord's right to remove rental units under the Ellis Act. Thus, a local rent control law may not require a landlord seeking to go out of business to either (1) prove the rental units are uninhabitable and incapable of being made fit for habitation in an economically feasible manner, or else (2) promise to develop new multifamily rental property subject to rent control and to some extent affordable by low income tenants. (Yarmark, supra, 203 Cal.App.3d at pp. 163-165, 171, 249 Cal.Rptr. 732; see Javidzad v. City of Santa Monica (1988) 204 Cal.App.3d 524, 529-531, 251 Cal.Rptr. 350.)