The Voice of Multifamily Residents in Beverly Hills Since 2017
Landlords claim that we tenants were a happy lot before City of Beverly Hills mucked around with the rent stabilization ordinance. They hardly ever hit us with excessive rent increases, they say, and properties were maintained just fine. No-just-cause eviction was not even a thing, so why fix what wasn’t broke? This latest attempt to roll back tenant protections isn’t fooling anybody: this was a system that did need fixing.
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When staff presented City Council with an overview of registration data in November of 2017, it was clear just how many rental properties had not been registered with the city as required: almost twenty percent! And those properties were disproportionately small properties. We take a look at the data on non-registration to suggest what it may say about owners who have not registered.
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City Council in Tuesday’s September 19th evening session adopted a resolution to create the rental unit registry. It was a formality, really. Council had decided to move ahead with it on September 5th despite a small parade of landlords who argued that the registry was not only unlawful but too costly and the product of an improper process.
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