This has come with rent increases for some of the people who call them home — one Storz park in Orangevale, northeast of Sacramento, saw rents go up 230% over a decade.

Most L.A. apartments are covered by the city’s decades-old rent control law. New limits on annual rent hikes take effect July 1 without reforms that have been waiting for a City Council vote.

Washington’s statewide cap on annual residential rent increases will be just shy of 10% next year, down slightly from its current level. The limit, which takes effect Jan. 1, will be set at 9. ...

Most L.A. apartments are covered by the city’s decades-old rent control law. New limits on annual rent hikes take effect July 1 without reforms that have been waiting for a City Council vote.

She said once she saw rent increases force some of her community members onto the street, she knew she had to help. “I saw someone being evicted from an apartment building,” she recalled.

Measure V set annual rent increases on the Consumer Price Index for the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area — which is 2.37% in 2025. If the council refuses, the members of the group plan to go ...