Landlords in the Golden State will now be required to provide tenants with working fridges and stoves in their rental units.

Changes to California’s rental laws are on the way. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several housing bills in 2025 that will roll out ...

California landlords will be required to provide all apartments with a working stove and refrigerator starting January 1, ...

California is about to run a high‑stakes experiment in how far housing law can go to bend an overheated market. Starting in ...

A slew of new laws in California have gone into effect, including a ban on law enforcement officers wearing masks, cuts to ...

Voters said no to expanded rent control, but tenants facing evictions will have more time to fight to keep their homes under a new California law. To read about other new laws, go here. Stay ...

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Beginning Jan. 1, California landlords will be required to provide all apartments with a working stove and refrigerator.

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The law doubles the time tenants have to respond after receiving an eviction notice from five business days to ten. Lawyers who work with renters say that what may seem like a minor procedural change ...