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For the third straight year, Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks has proposed legislation that would force rental housing providers to register their properties with the government.
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The California Apartment Association has stopped legislation that would have created a statewide rental registry and targeted landlords who’ve received government assistance in response to the coronavirus.
AB 2406 by Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, died today in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
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As expected, Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, is trying
again to create a statewide rental registry.
On Tuesday, Wicks introduced AB 2406, which would create a rental registry for all California
landlords with more than five units.
Last year, the California Apartment Association helped kill a similar bill, AB 724, which had an initial price tag north of $20 million and negative privacy implications for both landlords and tenants.
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Over the objections of CAA, Los Angeles
County supervisors Tuesday voted unanimously to draft a permanent rent control
ordinance for the county’s unincorporated areas.
The ordinance is expected to limit annual rent increases based on the rate of inflation, which is now about 3%.
Supervisors instructed staff to return with the ordinance by Nov. 12.
Thanks
in part to the efforts of CAA, the Milpitas City Council this week backed away
from a proposal to bring impose rent control and “just cause” eviction policies.
The
council rejected these policies Tuesday after receiving a report from its
Tenant Protection Task Force, which included both tenants and property owners.
While
tenants on the task force demanded rent control and just cause policies,
property owners in the group suggested several alternatives, such as conducting
educational workshops to help tenants understand their rights under state law,
establishing a non-binding mediation program for disputes, and creating a “right to lease”… Read More
Tenant activists Thursday conceded that they’d fallen short in their effort to place rent control on Pasadena’s November ballot.
To qualify their measure, rent control advocates faced a May 30 deadline to submit at least 12,982 valid voter signatures. On Thursday, rent control supporters announced a final signature count of 10,224.
Supporters of the rent control measure, “The Pasadena Fair and Equitable Housing Charter Amendment,” filed their initial paperwork for the ballot measure in November. The initiative sought to bring rent control, “just cause” eviction policies and a rent board to the city.
In an editorial urging a no vote on Measure C, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat calls rent control a “drastic step” and “the most heavy-handed of solutions” to the city’s housing crisis.
CAA’s months of meetings with the West Hollywood City Council and staff helped thwart a move to require an annual rent registry for owners of market-rate units.
Instead of the rent registry, the West Hollywood council opted this week for an alternative proposal that would:
Increase tenant landlord outreach
Add posting requirements for non-rent-controlled units
Ask landlords to provide information on rent increases to prospective tenants
Contract with an outside company for yearly analysis of market conditions on rental properties in West Hollywood.
City staff will now draft the alternative ordinance. Stay tuned for updates at caanet.org.
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