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The California Apartment Association and coalition partners – The California Association of Realtors, the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Building Industry Association, and the California Business Property Association — are lobbying at the Capitol this week to stop a bill that would allow cities and counties to force below-market rate housing in new rental developments.
AB 2502 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, is on the Assembly floor. A vote is expected this week.
The bill would overturn the Palmer v. Los Angeles court decision, which concluded that requiring a percentage of affordable units, or inclusionary housing, in… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has stopped legislation that would have forced property owners to rent to Section 8 voucher holders.
SB 1053 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would have made it unlawful to deny housing based on an applicant receiving Section 8 assistance.
On Friday, the bill failed to move out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, effectively ending its chances of becoming law.
CAA strongly encourages members who have the resources to accept Section 8 vouchers. Moreover, the Association will continue working with local housing authorities to ensure the program is efficient and effective, enticing more landlords to participate.… Read More
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CAA is requesting changes to an inclusionary-housing bill that’s up for a vote this week and would authorize local governments to require affordable housing in new rental developments.
AB 2502 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, is on the Assembly floor and could be voted upon as soon as Wednesday, June 1.
Confusion over the legality of inclusionary housing mandates in new rental developements began with a court case known as Palmer v. Los Angeles.
Palmer called into question the legality of Los Angeles’ inclusionary-housing ordinance. The city law required a certain percentage of new rental housing be priced… Read More
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Gov. Jerry Brown’s May revision to California’s spending plan would improve housing affordability by making it cheaper and easier for developers to build multifamily communities.
Released this past Friday, the governor’s May revision espouses legislative changes to lift local obstacles to residential development. It favors market-based solutions, such as streamlining the development process, over costly government subsidies that help comparatively few people.
“Hopefully, the supply is going to bring down the cost,” Brown said in this Los Angeles Times story. “Otherwise, through subsidies and through restrictions, we’re just spending more and more tax dollars and getting very, very little.”
Brown’s… Read More
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Thanks to a bill signed into law this week, mom-and-pop rental property owners won’t have to worry quite as much about abusive disability-access lawsuits.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed SB 269 by Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside. Under certain circumstances, the bill provides business owners with more time to fix minor ADA compliance violations before being subject to costly court battles.
For example, the law will protect small-business owners from liability for minimum statutory damages in a construction-related accessibility claim for the 120 days following a voluntary inspection by a certified access specialist. Under certain conditions, the business could then… Read More
Legislation that would encourage prospective hosts to review their insurance policies before getting into the home-sharing business has advanced to the Senate floor.
Senate Bill 1092 would require companies such as Airbnb, HomeAway and Flipkey to post disclosures about the importance of confirming insurance coverage related to short-term rentals.
The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, May 3, by a 6-0 vote.
The insurance notice builds on a disclosure required under legislation sponsored by the California Apartment Association last year.
That legislation, SB 761, requires that short-term rental companies post a notice advising tenants to check their rental… Read More
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A CAA-sponsored bill clarifying that landlords can prohibit renters from smoking marijuana in apartments is halfway to becoming law.
On Thursday, April 5, the Assembly approved AB 2300 on a 74-0 vote, sending it to the state Senate.
“This is about protecting families that live in close proximity to others,” the author of the bill, Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, said last week in a statement. “Second-hand smoke can be a real problem, especially for families who live in apartments or other multi-family residences.”
In 2011, the California Apartment Association sponsored, and the state Legislature overwhelmingly passed, legislation to allow rental… Read More
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Under a bill heading to the Assembly floor, the California Apartment Association could bring legal action against a local government that denies housing projects in violation of state law.
The CAA-sponsored proposal, AB 2584, advances to the floor after winning unanimous approval Tuesday in the Assembly Judiciary Committee. CAA sponsored this bill as California struggles for solutions to its unprecedented housing crisis, which has resulted from a severe lack of new housing construction, both market rate and affordable.
The bill, authored by Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim, expands the enforcement of the Housing Accountability Act by allowing groups that represent tenants… Read More
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The California Apartment Association applauds a proposal unveiled by state lawmakers this week to help families struggling to keep up with rising rents.
The plan, announced Monday by members of the Democratic Assembly Caucus, would dedicate more than $1.3 billion to address the state’s housing affordability crisis.
While California has seen explosive job growth, state and local governments have failed to allow enough new housing to accommodate the influx of new workers.
As the resulting housing shortage led to higher rental prices, state and federal funding to develop and preserve of affordable homes has plummeted by 79 percent.
The result… Read More
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A CAA-sponsored bill clarifying that landlords can prohibit renters from smoking marijuana in apartments passed a key committee this week.
The bill, AB 2300, advanced Tuesday from the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a 10-0 vote. The next stop for the bill is the Assembly floor.
“This is about protecting families that live in close proximity to others,” the author of the bill, Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, said in a statement. “Second-hand smoke can be a real problem, especially for families who live in apartments or other multi-family residences.”
In 2011, the California Apartment Association sponsored, and the state Legislature overwhelmingly… Read More
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