Friends of Lagoon Valley v. City of Vacaville, 154 Cal.App.4th 807 (2007)
California’s Density Bonus Law (Gov. Code § 65915) does not set a ceiling on how much of a bonus a city may give a developer for building affordable housing, the Court of Appeal has held. Under the Density Bonus Law,…
Department of Fair Employment and Housing v. 1105 Alta Loma Road Apartments, LLC
Landlords sued for discrimination cannot rid themselves of the suit by invoking the anti-SLAPP statute (Code Civ. Proc. § 425.16), the Court of Appeal has held. In this case, a landlord gave tenants notice of intention to leave the housing…
Dennis v. BEH-1, LlC, 2007 WL 2769650 (9th Cir. Sept. 25, 2007) (supersedes prior report)
Credit reporting agencies need to learn how to read legal documents, the Ninth Circuit has held. Or maybe it’s they need to learn how to read. A settlement of an unlawful detainer action in L.A. Superior Court specified, among other…
Marlin v. Aimco Venezia, LLC, 154 Cal.App.4th 154 (2007)
Tenants who sought a declaration of their rights against a landlord could not be subject to the anti-SLAPP statute (Code Civ. Proc. § 425.16), the Court of Appeal has held. After a landlord gave some of the last remaining tenants…
Action Apartment Association Inc. v. City of Santa Monica, 41 Cal.4th 1232 (2007)
A Santa Monica city ordinance may prohibit landlords from harassing tenants, but once the landlord files an unlawful detainer action or contemplates filing one in good faith, the ordinance is preempted, the California Supreme Court has held. The Court concluded…
Fair housing video
The Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) in conjunction with several southern California fair housing agencies has produced a very good fair housing and disability video. Fair Housing and Disability: Reasonable Accommodations was designed to inform housing providers of…
Helping the chronically homeless
For those of you who want evidence behind your “housing plus” proposals, The Skid Row Collaborative 2003-2007: Process Evaluation found that a project using federal funds to move chronically homeless disabled people directly into housing and help them with health,…
Why there was a decline in health coverage
The Urban Institute asked “What Happened to Health Insurance Coverage of Children and Adults in 2006?” And the answer is… the largest growth in uninsured children (48 percent) occurred among those in middle-income families because there was no increase in Medicaid…
Katie A. v. Bonta, 481 F.3d 1150 (9th Cir. 2007)
The State must provide a broad range of mental health treatment to foster children under the Medi-Cal program, the Ninth Circuit has held. At the same time, the court reversed a preliminary injunction that required provision of wraparound services and…
Better serving hard-to-employ parents
The latest from the Urban Institute‘s new Low-Income Working Families project: Hard-to-Employ Parents: A Review of Their Characteristics and the Programs Designed to Serve Their Needs, looks at the difficulties 1.3 million TANF recipients with barriers to employment face in…
