California: Tenants (and HOA owners) Get New Rights to Grow Food

By:  Westside Today Staff

Posted October 4, 2014

AB 2561, by Assembly Member Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), ensures that landlords and homeowners associations (HOA) may not unreasonably prohibit a tenant’s ability to grow food in his or her backyard. The bill protects the rights of tenants in one- or two-unit buildings to grow food for personal consumption in portable containers. The bill extends the same protections to homeowners by preventing a homeowners association from instituting a ban on backyard produce.   Read more

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