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Los Angeles Real Estate
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Death by
a thousand cuts.
Costa-Hawkins is still standing. It survived three repeal votes. The reset is being ground down anyway, through a dozen smaller rules that never make the news.
Layer 3 · StateCaliforniaAB 1482 · Costa-Hawkins · Ellis
Layer 2 · CountyThe reversalNow stricter than the city
Layer 1 · CityLA RSOCeiling cut 8% → 4%
Why the building reprices
No single rule ends the business.
The sum reprices the asset.
Nobody has to repeal Costa-Hawkins. Read these together and they do exactly what a repeal would do, only slower and without a headline. This is the New York pattern, six years on.
iRent ceiling rewritten, effective July 20268% → 4%
iiUtility & dependent adders eliminatedGone
iiiJust cause extended past the pre-1978 lineExpanded
ivSB 567 made a botched notice a lawsuitLiability
vRelocation to turn a single unitup to $26,550
viMeasure ULA transfer tax on the exitup to 5.5%
The reset dies in practice, not on paper.Repricing
Read the whole map.
Free.
The three laws stacked above every LA apartment — state, county, and city — in plain English. What each does, what just changed, what it costs at the property level. Every number traces to LAHD, DCBA, or the statute, so you can verify any line.
The three laws above every LA apartment.
Current as of July 2026.
Current as of July 2026.
Sourced to LAHD, DCBA,
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