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Do Landlords Have the Right to Remove Residential Property from the Rental Market?

In this EXCLUSIVE Q&A, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips' Keli Osaki and Tom Muller talk about how, for now, multifamily housing in California is still mostly private property.

By Natalie Dolce | nataliedolce | Updated on April 20, 2017

“Multifamily housing is often treated as if it were a quasi-public resource, for example by rent control laws. The degree to which apartments should or shouldn’t be so treated was recently addressed by a California court in Coyne v. City and County of San Francisco, which considered the limits on mitigation measures a city may impose on landlords for removing residential property from the rental market,” according to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips’ Keli Osaki and Tom Muller. When San Francisco increased the relocation assistance payments property owners must pay their tenants under the Ellis Act, the increase was challenged, the duo says.

The commentary below takes a closer look and the views are the authors’ own.

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