Merced renters packed Merced City Chambers Monday, as council members reconsidered the "Just Cause For Eviction" law that protects renters from being evicted from their homes after foreclosure.

Thefts from apartment drop boxes are on the rise and residents need to take precautions to protect their checks and bank accounts, Fresno police say.

Merced's Just Cause for Eviction ordinance stands while the California Fair Political Practices Commission investigates whether the mayor and one councilmember have a conflict of interest in calling for its repeal.

Merced's mayor pro tem and two city council members speak out for the just cause for eviction ordinance that TT and several activist members worked to pass last month. Others on the council want to repeal the law.

In the next six months, Valley View Village in Fresno County will have 67 new single-family rental homes and a neighborhood recreation center.

With help from TT, Merced becomes the first Central Valley city with just cause for eviction protections for tenants living in foreclosed homes.

James Dawes has to fight illegal lockouts by his landlord -- while battling cancer, too. Illegal lockouts are a rampant problem in the Modesto area.

Thanks in part to the efforts of a TT Tenant Action Group, Merced renters win protection from eviction after foreclosure.

Merced City Council approves the Just Cause for Eviction ordinance -- a win for renters facing eviction after a foreclosure.

Merced passes a just cause for eviction ordinance to protect tenants who are victims of their landlords' foreclosures.

TT Executive Director Dean Preston explains why Merced's recent passage of a just cause for eviction ordinance is important for tenants.

The Merced Sun-Star endorses the just cause for eviction ordinance that TT and our Merced activist members have been working for. The ordinance passed on first read November 7.

At Doyle Gardens in Stockton, both the city and county have cited the complex for bedbugs but still nothing has been done to help the people living the apartments.

Residents fight back against a slum lord that refuses to kill the bed bugs that infest the Doyle Gardens Apartment Complex.

Merced city council votes 6 to 1 to move forward with a just cause for eviction ordinance.

A mobile home landlord agrees to fix faulty floors.

Increasing rents are just one way the foreclosure crisis is hitting renters.

A new program from Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance offers legal aid to people facing discrimination and educates housing providers who discriminate.

According to a report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, American renters on average must earn over $20 an hour to afford a modest apartment, yet the average renter makes much less.

The trend of increasing demand and decreasing supply of rental properties visits Tulare County.

Landlord Hall of Shame nominee JD Home Rentals is still in the news for leaving properties in squalor and disrepair.

Stockton plans to turn deserted condos into graduate student housing, in the hopes of attracting residents to the downtown area.

In a story Tenants Together hears all too often, a tenant finds out her home is in foreclosure just one week after moving in.

Merced renters whom real estate agents and bank representatives have harassed to leave their homes call for the city council to pass a just case for eviction ordinance.

KXTV reports on TT's efforts to alert Stockton residents who are renting homes that may be in danger of going into foreclosure.

Landlords are required to provide heat to rental properties. Using ovens and grills to keep warm can be deadly.

TT member and blogger in Sacramento reports on landlord Hall of Shame.

Tenants Together organizer Giti Dadlani explains why five California landlords are Official Nominees to the Landlord Hall of Shame.

Local TV news coverage of Fresno Landlord Hall of Shame nominee JD Home Rentals.

Local TV news story on Hall of Shame nominees JD Home Rentals.

Local coverage of the Tenants Together Action Group meeting in Merced.

As water meters start to come online over the next six years, landlords will have to discuss with renters how billing on the new system will work.

Manteca tenants are caught as victims in the foreclosure crisis.

Tenants in Stanislaus County become innocent victims of the foreclosure crisis.

A Visilia space-rent ordinance expires in May and a new ordinance is being drafted by the city council. Mobile-home residents claim that owners of Visalia's 10 mobile-home residential parks routinely gouge new residents while relentlessly pushing up rents on helpless long-term residents on fixed incomes who have no other cost-effective housing option.

Unsuspecting renters and former homeowners say a foreclosure business left them out of their homes and out thousands of dollars.

A four-week investigation of the psychological and other health problems wreaked by the Merced area foreclosure crisis finds that renters are suffering from widespread stress and depression.

Renters in a Bakersfield apartment had no water service for about two weeks because the landlord had not paid the bill.

For renters and former homeowners who lost homes dues to foreclosure, the cost of a place to live is still too high despite small decreases in average rents. Tenants Together's Executive Director was interviewed for this article.

The Merced Community Action Agency has released "Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program Funds." These funds may be able to help to help tenants pay rent for a limited period of time.

This article looks at the story of a single-mother tenant in Visalia who faithfully paid her rent on time each month but now faces homelessness because her landlord went into foreclosure. Many of the foreclosed properties in Visalia sit vacant for long periods of time causing a serious problem of blight for the city.

Councilman Donald Haines wants to see if Galt is in need of a rent stabilization ordinance and what would be effective.

After just 10 months renting a new home where they planned to settle for several years, A Turlock family learns the home is going into foreclosure.

The state has awarded $1.5 million in federal recovery money to provide rental assistance for Turlock residents hit hard by the recession. The grant was awarded this week to the nonprofit Stanislaus Community Assistance Project, which worked with the city of Turlock and other groups to apply.

A Visalia tenant caught unexpectedly in a foreclosure situation faces utility shutoffs and homelessness.

Executive Director of Tenants Together, Dean Preston is interviewed for this article on tenant rights in foreclosure situations.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office says it has noticed an increase in the number of fraudulent evictions in recent months. Generally this involves a landlord that does not wish to spend the money or time to follow the legal requirements of an eviction.

The Bakersfield Californian covers Ridgecrest's passage of it's just cause eviction law for tenants in bank-owned properties after foreclosure.

The Ridgecrest City Council has approved an ordinance that will strengthen the rights of tenants and protect them from evictions after foreclosure.

While everyone is talking about the foreclosure crisis and how it affects homeowners, no one seems to be addressing the crisis facing renters. This piece recommends that prospective renters go to the county recorder's office to learn about the status of the mortgage.

On August 5, the Ridgcrest City Council will make its final decision on an eviction protection ordinance intended to protect tenants from displacement after foreclosure. Local realtors say the passage of this ordinance would discourage construction of new apartment complexes.

The city of Visalia is considering passing a rent control ordinance for mobile home parks.

The News Review reports on La Mirage tenants dealing with a condo investment scheme that has led to foreclosures of their homes.

The Daily Independent reports on the efforts of La Mirage tenants to bring attention to their plight.

VoiceofSanDiego.org follows the story of tenants dealing with a condo-investment scheme in Ridgecrest, Kern county.

A controversial large mixed-use complex, containing more than 200 residential units, will earn California State University, Fresno more than a $1 million annually in rent.

A Bakersfield landlord went into foreclosure, but his tenants who had a rent-to-buy agreement are left without a home and money they invested.

A Bakersfield family seeks answers to common questions around renters' rights in foreclosure situations.

Over 20 seniors gathered in Selma to protest the elimination of the tax rebates. The action was part of the statewide Day of Action to restore tax rebates to low-income senior, blind and disabled Californians.

Zachary Johnson of the Stockton record reports on the local impact of eliminating funds for the renters' rebate.

This article from the San Joaquin valley tells the stories of several tenants who feel that they have been intimidated by realty companies into leaving their homes before they are legally required to after a foreclosure.

The city council of Riverbank in Stanislaus county has voted to introduce a rent control ordinance for the city's mobile home parks.

The Visalia Times Delta looks at the effects of foreclosures on local tenants.

One Merced woman struggles with being a renter in a foreclosed apartment building.

This Fresno Bee article describes how an entire neighborhood of renters in Visalia is disappearing as a result foreclosures. Two tenants in one of the foreclosed rental properties have also been laid off from their jobs-one by a construction company, the other by a bank.

Relatives of a Kings county family who died in an apartment fire were awarded $29 million in wrongful death damages against the property management company who failed to maintain smoke alarms in the unit.

A Fresno landlord was ordered to pay $16,000 for failing to disclose lead-based paint presence in his eight units.

A Bakersfield couple faced foreclosures in the last two homes they rented. According to this article, a rental company is under no legal obligation to inform renters whether a house is in default.

The Modesto Bee profiles a Los Angeles renter worried about losing her home if Prop 98 passes.