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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

§ 1805

Citation
§ 1805
Parent Document
Bisno v. Santa Monica Rent Control Board, 30 Cal. Rptr. 3d 441 (2005)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
2005-07-14

Full Text

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The RCL is very specific about its purposes, or the ends it serves, and the means it employs to achieve those ends. Its purposes are to alleviate the hardship caused by a serious housing shortage and to provide reasonable protection to tenants. The means employed to achieve these ends are limiting landlords to a fair return, thus avoiding the unreasonable escalation of rents, controlling the removal of rental units from the housing stock and requiring just cause for eviction. (RCL, § 1800.) The whole tenor of the RCL is the provision of housing,