Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles etc. v. City of Los Angeles (2026)

Citation: Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles etc. v. City of Los Angeles (2026)
Parent Document: Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles etc. v. City of Los Angeles (2026)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2026-05-14
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10859038/apartment-assn-of-los-angeles-... ↗

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requirement and thus encompassed by its preemption. (Id. at
pp. 1411-1412.)” (Pasadena, supra, 117 Cal.App.5th at p. 235.) 7
       The relocation assistance requirement in the Relocation
Assistance Ordinance operates similarly to the in lieu fee in
Palmer/Sixth and the preempted ordinance in Pasadena: “[T]he
relocation assistance requirement financially penalizes landlords
for exercising their rights under the Costa-Hawkins Act. Even if
imposing an obligation to pay relocation assistance is not a direct
restriction on a landlord’s ability to set the rent, the money a
landlord must pay in relocation assistance reduces the amount of
income the landlord receives from the rental property. The
Costa-Hawkins Act was meant to rein in rent control by allowing
landlords to raise the rents on exempt units to their fair market
value. (NCR Properties, supra, 89 Cal.App.5th at p. 47;
Apartment Assn. of Los Angeles County, supra, 173 Cal.App.4th
at p. 30.) The relocation assistance requirement counteracts that
purpose. . . . However worthy and laudable [the public policy

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