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

AAGLA Political Action Committees & Legal Fund

Since 1917, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA) has remained one of the strongest advocates for rental housing providers throughout Southern California. The AAGLA’s advocacy reach encompasses nearly 200 local jurisdictions, as well as the state government in Sacramento and the Federal government in Washinton, D.C. Whether you own or manage any type of rental housing, be it multifamily, single family, condominium or accessory dwelling unit, AAGLA advocates on your behalf to protect your interests – we’ve got your back!

Owning and managing rental housing today has become a highly regulated and complicated business, and as a result, successfully managing a rental housing business has become far more challenging and riskier than ever before. Without an organization AAGLA, there would be no other voice fighting for the rights of property owners within city halls, county board offices, and our state and federal capitals. AAGLA IS A STRONG ADVOCATE SEEKING TO PROTECT PROPERTY RIGHTS AND INITIATING POSITIVE CHANGE!

What Are the AAGLA PACs?

The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles’ two Political Action Committees (PACs), the AAGLA PAC and AAGLA Issues PAC are nonpartisan political entities of AAGLA. They are dedicated to political advocacy efforts that help to ensure the protection, preservation, and advancement of the interests of rental housing providers throughout California. The overarching goal of the PACs is to seek regulatory balance by preventing harmful policies and regulations from moving forward, and promoting beneficial housing policies that help to maintain safe and affordable housing supply and protect the interests of all housing providers,

All contributions to the AAGLA PAC or AAGLA Issues PAC allow us to support lawmakers who understand the needs and promote the interests of rental housing providers, defeat harmful ballot initiatives and proposed regulations that restrict property owner rights, and provide funding for legal challenges necessary to protect the rights of all rental property owners.

Why Should I Get Involved? Why Help? Help Us to Fight Back Against Harmful Regulations!

Three times during just a six-year period, from 2018 through 2024, attempted passage of three extreme rent control ballot initiatives, Propositions 10 (2018), 21 (2020), and 33 (2024), were funded by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. If either of these initiatives had passed, housing providers throughout California would have lost many important rights 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 properties of all ages and types, including the placement of limitations on rent increases for new construction, single-family homes and condominiums, and even a single bedroom rented within a home, and passage of any of these ballot measures would have imposed vacancy “control” allowing cities and counties to dictate the amount if rent that may be charged for new tenancies. Fortunately, with each of these ballot initiatives, AAGLA led a coalition of affiliates and real estate groups statewide, mobilized, and helped raise and fund more than a hundred million dollars for each of the proposed ballot initiatives leading to their defeat, in each case, by approximately two-thirds majority. Had they passed, either of these ballot measures that would have created some of the most destructive local rent control regimes ever.

Every year, the California legislature proposes more than 3,000 state bills, which includes dozens of newly proposed state housing regulations. To make matters worse, local jurisdictions also continually create restrictive housing regulations that impose severe financial burdens, legal exposure and regulatory risk on housing providers. Nearly weekly, there are constant threats to lower rent “caps” and impose extreme forms of tenant protections along with fees and penalties being assessed on property owners.

AAGLA takes on these harmful proposals and fights back. We have a successful track record of preventing these ongoing threats from moving forward or securing amendments that eliminate the most destructive aspects of newly proposed laws and regulations. However, to enable AAGLA to continue being a powerful and effective advocate for rental housing providers, that requires involvement and financial resources.

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

In July 2024, AAGLA filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles seeking to stop the city from enforcing an ordinance that it deprived our members from seeking 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.

AAGLA had also filed legal challenges against the cities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills challenging those jurisdictions’ rental registries, we filed a lawsuit challenging the City of Los Angeles’ monopolistic trash hauling program known as RecycLA, and we filed a constitutional challenge to the County of Los Angeles’ COVID-era eviction moratorium and rent freeze, and sought and obtained an injunction against the county’s enforcement of that ordinance. Over the years, AAGLA has initiated many other legal challenges against various jurisdictions within its designated territory, has filed numerous Amicus Briefs in support of constitutional challenges to harmful housing regulations, and we are currently supporting a constitutional challenge to the City of Los Angeles’s rent stabilization ordinance which we hope to have heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Each and every year, AAGLA is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on litigation efforts seeking to protect the interests of rental housing providers, and we need your financial help to continue the fight. If given the financial resources needed, we can and will prevail in our efforts to defend the property rights of our members and housing providers throughout California!

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 in our crusade to make positive changes for rental housing providers by contributing to one of our PACs and Legal Fund!

Are You Sick and Tired of Destructive Regulations? We Are Too!

If you are growing sick and tired of these seemingly constant attacks on your investment(s) in rental property and the barrage of potentially harmful regulations, then please help us to fight back. Help us to influence and elect public officials who are sympathetic to the needs of rental housing providers and who will help ensure we have only fair and balanced regulations in the future. Help us to overturn harmful new regulations and to promote beneficial regulations being pursued via the ballot box. Finally, help us to engage in legal challenges seeking to overturn harmful local ordinances and state laws. All this takes financial resources, so please, give us the resources we need to fight back and win! Give to the AAGLA Legal Fund, AAGLA PAC, or AAGLA Issues PAC today.