Protect Your Property Value: Help AAGLA’s Advocacy Efforts!

AAGLA Political Action Committees & Legal Fund

For more than 100 years, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) has been the voice of the rental housing industry in Southern California.  AAGLA serves as a powerful advocate and lobbyist for rental housing providers at the local, county, state, and federal levels of government.  Owning and operating rental housing today has become a highly regulated industry, and accordingly, owning and managing rental property 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 AFFECTS CHANGE!

What is AAGLA PAC?

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ two Political Action Committees, the AAGLA PAC and AAGLA Issues PAC are non-partisan political entities of AAGLA.  The AAGLA PAC and AAGLA Issues PAC 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?

A rent control ballot initiative, the “Justice for Renters Act,” like past efforts under Propositions 10 (2018) and 21 (2020), has qualified to be on the November 2024 ballot. The initiative, if passed, will repeal the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995 and accordingly, local jurisdictions can then impose 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 also impose vacancy “control” allowing cities and counties to dictate the rent that can be charged for a vacant unit. Like the opposition campaigns for Propositions 10 and 21, it will take $80 million to $90 million to successfully defeat this latest attack on rental housing providers.

AAGLA is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to overturn problematic regulations. In July 2024, we 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. During March 2023, we filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles to prohibit the enforcement of two new renter protection ordinances. During 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.

During 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 and be part of impacting positive change in the rental housing industry today and contribute to one of our Political Action Committees!