Just cause required to terminate tenancy
Santa Ana Just Cause Eviction OrdinanceCity law
After 30 days, an owner may not terminate a tenancy without just cause.
Answers the question “When can they end my tenancy?”
The source
… 2021. Property owners are required to provide written notice of the Ordinance and tenant’s rights at commencement of a lease or as part of any notice to increase rent. A template written notice will be available on the City’s webpage no later than November 19, 2021. Key provisions of the Just Cause Eviction Ordinance After 30 days, an owner shall not terminate a tenancy without just cause, which shall be stated in a written notice. “Just cause” includes certain at-fault causes such as default in payment of rent, breach of a material term of the lease, committing a nuisance, criminal activity, and other actions. “Just cause” also includes certain no-fault causes such as the intent of the owner to…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D085, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Nov 19, 2021
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Does not apply to housing produced in the last 15 years, deed-restricted affordable housing, hotels and transient occupancy, hospitals and care facilities, dormitories, or other shared living quarters.
- Key value
- 30 days
- Exemptions
- Housing produced in the last 15 years; deed-restricted affordable housing; hotel and transient occupancy; hospital and care facilities; dormitories; and other shared living quarters.
- What you can do next
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Extracted by the model
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- Category
- Eviction protection
- Requirement
- After 30 days, an owner may not terminate a tenancy without just cause.
- Key value
- 30 days
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is CA-SANTA-ANA.
- Dates: in force from 2021-11-19; before that, not yet in force.
- Coverage: tested against whether the building is subsidised, what the building is used for, the number of units; a missing fact gives "unknown", never a guess.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 250 sample addresses in California on Oct 1, 2026.
- 250 not covered
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 2 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.