{"id":720,"date":"2009-10-19T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=720"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:28","slug":"ninth-circuit-holds-rent-control-law-to-constitute-an-unconstitutional-taking-of-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2009\/10\/19\/ninth-circuit-holds-rent-control-law-to-constitute-an-unconstitutional-taking-of-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Circuit holds rent control law to constitute an unconstitutional taking of property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ninth Circuit ruled in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2009\/09\/28\/06-56306.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Guggenheim v. Goleta<\/a>\u00a0that a rent control law covering mobile homes violated the takings clause because it transferred 90% of the market value of the tenancy from the landlord to the tenants. The court distinguish Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992) on the ground that\u00a0<em>Yee<\/em>\u00a0held that such a law did not effectuate a &#8220;physical taking&#8221; but left open the question of whether the law constituted a regulatory taking under the\u00a0<em>Penn Central<\/em>\u00a0ad hoc test.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/takings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Takings<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ninth Circuit ruled in\u00a0Guggenheim v. Goleta\u00a0that a rent control law covering mobile homes violated the takings clause because it transferred 90% of the market value of the tenancy from the landlord to the tenants. The court distinguish Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992) on the ground that\u00a0Yee\u00a0held that such a law did not effectuate a &#8220;physical taking&#8221; but left open the question of whether the law constituted a regulatory taking under the\u00a0Penn Central\u00a0ad hoc test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takings"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}