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The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act ("Costa-Hawkins") is the California State law that prohibits municipal rent increase limitations on certain kinds of exempted dwelling units, allows rent increases on subtenants following departure by tenants of rent-controlled tenancies, and prohibits "vacancy control" - the regulation of rental rates on units that have been voluntarily vacated by the previous renters at an amount other (presumably lower) than what the open market would bear. The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act ("Costa-Hawkins") allows homeowners economic deregulation of rent increases on certain kinds of exempted dwellings (single-family and condominium) units. California state law supersedes local ordinances; "Costa-Hawkins" decontrolled rent limitations when: " It is alienable separate from the title to any other dwelling unit or is a subdivided interest in a subdivision, as specified in subdivision (b), (d), or (f) of Section 11004.5 of the Business and Professions Code. CIVIL CODE SECTION 1954.50-1954.535 CA" It was codified as California Civil Code, sections 1954.50, et seq.,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CA Codes (civ:1954.50-1954.535) )〕 in 1995. (It was amended in 2001 to close a loophole related to condominium conversion, where owners of apartment buildings obtained certificates for conversion, to avail themselves of the state law exemption for rent control, without actually selling any of the erstwhile apartments as condominiums.) ==Rent Control in California== "Rent control" is a type of municipal law aimed at mitigating the disruptive effect of escalating or fluctuating rental market prices on neighborhoods and individual renters, as well as to promote the maintenance of safe and habitable dwelling units in tight markets with housing shortages. For instance, San Francisco's Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance ("SFRO"), enacted as an emergency ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code, effective June 13, 1979, acknowledged that, in the face of significant increases prior to rent control, "some tenants attempt to pay requested rent increases, but as a consequence must expend less on other necessities of life. This situation has had a detrimental effect on substantial numbers of renters in the City, especially creating hardships on senior citizens, persons on fixed incomes and low and moderate income households".〔http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=1250〕 "Rent control" is an economic regulation; generally city code to control rental increases; generally with "just cause" evictions. California Assembly noted that, prior to the adoption of Costa-Hawkins, existing California law "()akes no statutory provision for, but does not prohibit, the of local rent control ordinances. Case law, Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976) 17 Cal. 3d 129, held that rent control a proper exercise of a local government's police power if it is calculated to eliminate excessive rents and at the same provide landlords with just and reasonable returns on their properties."〔http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/95-96/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1164_cfa_950725_172019_asm_floor.html〕 Rent control imposes restrictions on a landlord's ability to increase the rental rate of rental property, usually keyed to cost of living adjustments. For example, the SFRO limits annual increases to the lesser of 60% of the Consumer Price Index ("CPI") or 7%;〔http://www.sfrb.org/index.aspx?page=1252〕 the Berkeley Rent Board allows an annual increase of 65% of CPI.〔http://www.cityofberkeley.info/Rent_Stabilization_Board/Home/2015_ANNUAL_GENERAL_ADJUSTMENT.aspx〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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