Santa Ana's Rent Stabilization framework prohibits landlord harassment of tenants, including utility shutoffs, lock changes, false notices, and bad-faith repairs intended to push tenants out of rent-stabilized units.
Santa Ana's tenant protections forbid landlord conduct designed to drive out a tenant, including interrupting utilities, removing personal property, changing locks, refusing repairs in retaliation, threatening immigration status referrals, and serving notices the landlord knows are baseless. Tenants may file administrative complaints and pursue civil damages. Repeat offenders face escalating fines and permit consequences. The protections are especially relevant in Santa Ana's Latino-majority rental market, where threats around immigration status have been a documented harassment tactic. The 1986 sanctuary city resolution undergirds non-cooperation with such tactics.
Shutting off utilities, changing locks, refusing repairs in retaliation, or threatening tenants based on immigration status exposes landlords to civil damages plus city administrative penalties.
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