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AAGLA Files Suit Against LA Over Rent Freeze Ordinance
The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) said Monday that it had filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles seeking to nullify and enjoin the city from enforcing a rent freeze ordinance, on the grounds that it deprives AAGLA members of due process. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, seeks to overturn the city’s Ordinance No. 186607, which is codified in Los Angeles Municipal Code § 151.32.
“This ordinance, which has frozen all rent increases for more than three years under a period of extreme inflationary pressures, has been a tremendous financial strain on the city’s rental housing providers,” said Cheryl Turner, president of the AAGLA board of directors and a Los Angeles-based attorney.
“As a result, many housing providers in Los Angeles have been forced to exit the rental business, liquidate retirement savings to keep up with rapidly rising costs, or in extreme instances, are facing foreclosure proceedings,” she added.
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