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AAGLA Political Action Committees & Legal Fund

For more than 100 years, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) has been a strong advocate for rental housing providers in Southern California. The AAGLA’s advocacy reach encompasses nearly 200 local jurisdictions, as well as our state government in Sacramento and the Federal government in Washinton, D.C.

Owning and managing rental housing today has become a highly regulated industry, and the rental housing business has become far more challenging and riskier than ever before. Without an organization such as the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, there would be no other voice fighting for the rights of property owners within city halls, county offices, and at state and federal capitols. AAGLA IS THE VOICE THAT INITIATES POSITIVE CHANGE!

What is AAGLA PAC?

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ two Political Action Committees, the AAGLA PAC and AAGLA Issues PAC are nonpartisan political entities of AAGLA. They are dedicated to advocacy efforts to ensure the protection, preservation, and advancement of the interests of rental housing providers throughout California.

All contributions to the AAGLA PAC or AAGLA Issues PAC allow us to support lawmakers who have rental housing providers best interests in mind, defeat ballot initiatives that may strip you of your property rights, and provide funding for legal challenges as we continue to fight to protect the rights of all rental property owners in the greater Los Angeles area.

Why should I get involved? Why should I help?

Three times during a six-year period from 2018 through 2024, extreme rent control ballot initiatives, Propositions 10 (2018), 21 (2020), and 33 (2024), if passed, would have stripped you of many of your rights as a property owner by repealing the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995 and accordingly, local jurisdictions could and would have imposed the most extreme forms of local rent control on rental housing providers, including the placement of limitations on rent increases for new construction, single-family homes and condominiums, and even a single bedroom rented in someone’s house, and the ballot measures would have also imposed vacancy “control” allowing cities and counties to dictate the amount if rent that may be charged for a new tenancy at a vacant unit. Fortunately, with each of these ballot initiatives, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles came to the rescue, mobilized, and built a strong coalition that raised tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat these proposed ballot measures that would have created some of the most destructive local rent control regimes ever.

Every year, dozens of proposed state housing regulations are proposed in Sacramento. In many local jurisdictions, there are constant threats to lower rent “caps” and impose extreme tenant protections along with fees and penalties being assessed on property owners.  The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles takes on these harmful proposals. It has a successful track record of eliminating these ongoing threats entirely or securing amendments that eliminate the most destructive aspects of proposed laws and regulations. However, to be a powerful and effective advocate for rental housing providers requires involvement and financial resources.

AAGLA spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year overturning problematic regulations.

In July 2024, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles seeking to stop the city from enforcing an ordinance prohibiting rent increases on the grounds that it deprives our members of due process by effectively denying annual rent increases mandated by the city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance. In March 2023, we filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles to prohibit the enforcement of two new renter protection ordinances. In December 2022, AAGLA, along with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, filed a joint lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles to overturn Measure ULA, a documentary transfer tax of 4% on real estate sales or transfers of more than $5 million, and 5.5% on real estate transactions valued above $10 million. All three of these lawsuits are still pending. AAGLA is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to protect the interests of rental housing providers, and we need your financial help to continue the fight. We will win!

In March 2022, AAGLA and the Apartment Owners Association of California (AOA) filed a joint lawsuit against Los Angeles County seeking an injunction against the enforcement of the County’s residential eviction moratorium, and a preliminary injunction was granted.

By generously giving to the AAGLA Legal Fund, AAGLA PAC, or AAGLA Issues PAC, you will help influence new policies and allow rental housing providers to continue creating quality and affordable homes for residents across all of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties while at the same time help to protect the value of your investment in rental property. Do not let the government continue to deprive you of your property rights. Join us to impact positive change in the rental housing industry today and contribute to one of our Political Action Committees! Help us to continue our legal battles seeking to overturn harmful regulations and make constitutional challenges against severe rent control regimes by contributing to our Legal Fund.