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On Aug. 30, 2016, the Santa Rosa City Council adopted a comprehensive ordinance imposing rent control, limiting evictions, and imposing relocation requirements on most residential rental properties.
The law takes effect Sept. 30, 2016.
To help members understand and comply with the new law, CAA has drafted guidelines and answers to frequently asked questions on this ordinance. Members can download this information here.
CAA has also prepared Santa Rosa-specific forms to help members comply with the various disclosure and noticing requirements contained in the ordinance. Members can download them from our website:
Santa Rosa Rent Control Q&A
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The Richmond City Council on Tuesday lacked the necessary votes to ban rent increases from now until November’s citywide vote on rent control.
Pro-rent control council members in the city pushed for an emergency moratorium on rent increases as a stopgap measure leading up to Election Day. This pro-rent control bloc, however, lacked the supermajority needed to enact the emergency measure.
The California Apartment Association is reviewing its options after the Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday ratified a permanent rent control and just-cause-for-eviction ordinance.
The cap on annual rent increases exceeding 3 percent will apply to more than 11,000 apartments built before 1995. Single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes are excluded, regardless of age. The law, formally adopted on a 4-2 vote, takes effect Sept. 30 and extends indefinitely a temporary rent control ordinance in place since May.
The permanent law also rolls back rents to Jan. 1, 2016, levels, a move that CAA contends violates both the state and U.S.… Read More
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At their Aug. 1 meeting, members of the Burlingame City Council expressed serious misgivings about the rent control initiative going before voters in November. The video above highlights some of their concerns.
The Burlingame City Council has filed the primary ballot argument against the rent control measure going before voters on the November ballot.
All five members of the council signed the document, released Friday, Aug. 19. Authored by Councilman Michael Brownrigg, the argument urges a no vote on the Burlingame Community Protection Ordinance, which will appear before voters as Measure R.
“While maintaining a varied housing stock is… Read More
Despite vigorous opposition from CAA and the Santa Rosa business community, housing providers in the city are facing rent control for the long haul.
After imposing the policy on a temporary basis, the City Council on Tuesday, Aug. 16, voted 4-2 to keep it in place.
In May, the Santa Rosa council approved a moratorium on rent increases over 3 percent on pre-1995 multifamily housing. The council’s vote Tuesday, after a first reading, is positioned to extend the rent cap indefinitely.
Assuming the ordinance is ratified after a second reading Aug. 30, it would take effect Sept. 30.
The ordinance,… Read More
The Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday, Aug. 16, will review ordinances intended to impose permanent rent control and just-cause eviction policies on the city’s rental housing providers.
Currently, certain Santa Rosa housing providers are subject to a rent increase moratorium until Oct. 4, 2016. If rent control passes a “first reading” on Aug. 16, and is adopted on Aug. 30, a continual and permanent 3 percent cap on annual rent increases will be in effect beginning Sept. 29, 2016. View the draft ordinance here.
Although Santa Rosa voted to pass a just-cause for eviction ordinance on July 19, the… Read More
Following mandates under the state election code, city councils for San Mateo and Burlingame on Monday voted to place rent control on their respective ballots in the November election.
As reported last month at caanet.org, election officials had confirmed that rent control advocates in San Mateo collected the 7,119 signatures required to place the initiative before voters. As required by state law, the City Council voted to place the issue on the Nov. 8 ballot.
If passed by voters, the charter amendment would implement San Francisco-style rent control in the city and create a rent board with no accountability to… Read More
The number of cities with rent control measures going on the November ballot continued to grow this week as election officials certified an initiative in San Mateo.
Tenant advocates in San Mateo had turned in more than 11,000 signatures in support of rent control and just-cause eviction policies. To qualify, 7,119 valid signatures were required.
Other Bay Area cities where rent control measures have qualified for the November election include Richmond, Alameda and Mountain View. Election officials are still reviewing a ballot measure proposed for Burlingame.
The California Apartment Association is committed to defeating rent control proposals wherever they arise.… Read More
Update: A permanent rent control and just-cause eviction measure are now on the Aug. 16 agenda for the council’s consideration.
Although Santa Rosa passed a just-cause for eviction ordinance Tuesday night, the council failed to garner the five votes needed to enact the ordinance immediately.
Facing opposition from the California Apartment Association, an effort to impose the policy on the city’s entire rental housing stock also fell short.
Just-cause policies require rental property owners to prove “cause” in court or before a political body every time they need to remove a problem resident.
Lacking the needed support for an urgency… Read More
The California Apartment Association is preparing to fight a rent control and just-cause eviction measure that qualified this week for the November ballot in Richmond.
The Contra Costa County Registrar of Voters on Tuesday, July 12, certified that rent control proponents collected a sufficient number of valid signatures to place the measure before voters in the general election.
The measure includes rent control based on the consumer price index, as well as a just-cause-for-eviction provision.
“Rent control is a failed policy that doesn’t work and provides little, if any, relief to the low-income families who need the so-called benefits of… Read More