This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
Cal. Civ. Code § 1954.50
Residential Rent Control
Known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act
The act spans §§ 1954–1954 (5 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 41 Cal. 4th 1232 - Action Apartment Ass'n v. City of Santa Monica (2007)
Most recently applied in 234 Cal. App. 4th 1144 - City of Berkeley v. 1080 Delaware, LLC (February 2015)
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 331, Sec. 1
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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