Starting next year, you won\u2019t have to comb through Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist for a decent used refrigerator because your California apartment doesn\u2019t come with one.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because on Monday Gov. Gavin Newsom signed<\/a> Assembly Bill 628 into law, requiring landlords to equip their rentals with a refrigerator and a stove that are in good working condition. <\/p>\n Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Hawthorne), whose 61st District covers communities from Inglewood to Marina del Rey, previously told The Times<\/a> that she was inspired to author the bill when she realized refrigerators and stoves were legally labeled as amenities. <\/p>\n A 2022 Times analysis found that California<\/a> has more apartments on the market without refrigerators than any other state. Existing state law<\/a> requires landlords to maintain certain \u201cstandard characteristics\u201d for a dwelling unit including adequate hot and cold running water, heat, and weather proofing. <\/p>\n McKinnor wanted to include a fridge and stove as necessities for a rental unit to be considered habitable. <\/p>\n Landlords cannot have occupants in a rental \u201cwithout a refrigerator just like they can\u2019t have you in there without hot running water or a heater,\u201d McKinnor said.<\/p>\n Under the new law, landlords must provide a stove capable of generating heat for cooking and a refrigerator capable of safely storing food for new leases starting Jan. 1, 2026. <\/p>\n The costs associated with moving into a new apartment \u2014 first month\u2019s rent and security deposit \u2014 can be a burden for renters, especially in the city of Los Angeles,<\/a> where the average monthly rent is $2,795, about $700 higher than the national average, according to Zillow<\/a>. <\/p>\n With this law, McKinnor said, renters will have one less payment to think about when moving into their new home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting next year, you won\u2019t have to comb through Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist for a decent used refrigerator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3895,3899,7,9,8,3897,3894,3896,3900,3891,63,3892,3889,3888,3893,3890,3898],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-apartment","tag-assembly-bill","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cold-running-water","tag-fridge","tag-heat","tag-inglewood","tag-landlord","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mckinnor","tag-new-law","tag-refrigerator","tag-rental","tag-stove","tag-thank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}