Housing Laws

Your landlord cannot end your lease (“terminate a tenancy”) or refuse to renew your lease (“fail to renew a tenancy”) if the abuse you, your immediate family member, or your household member experienced has been properly documented. There are exceptions however.¹ Your landlord can terminate your lease or not renew it if:

1. the person identified as the abuser in your documentation is also a tenant in your unit; or
2. both of the following are true:

• the abuser’s words or actions have threatened the physical safety of other tenants, guests, invitees, or licensees; and
• the landlord served you with a three-day notice requiring you not to voluntarily allow or agree to the abuser coming into the unit or the surrounding property (“the premises”), but you continue to allow the abuser to be there.²

¹ Cal.C.C.P. § 1161.3(b)(1)
² Cal.C.C.P. § 1161.3(b)(2)