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An economics professor has concluded that a proposed rent control program in Pacifica could cost the city $2 million each year to implement.
Tom Means, a professor of economics at San Jose State University, shared this conclusion in an analysis of Measure C, the rent control proposal appearing on November’s ballot in Pacifica. Means, who serves on Mountain View’s newly formed Rental Housing Committee, prepared his report for the Coalition for Housing Equality.
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Tenant activists left themselves a dangerously small margin for error in a signature-gathering effort to place a rent control measure before Glendale voters.
The rent control measure pushed by the tenant’s union seeks to cap rent increases at 3 percent annually.
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During a meeting attended by more than 150 members of the rental housing industry, the Daly City City Council last week rejected the idea of rent control and a number of other onerous housing policies.
On a 3-1 vote on Sept. 25, the council also dismissed policies such as just-cause eviction, relocation assistance, mandatory acceptance of Section 8 vouchers and the creation of a rent registry.
At issue was whether to include these policies as part of Daly City’s Assessment of Fair Housing Report (AFH). The report is a comprehensive study on a jurisdiction’s housing barriers, a routine process required… Read More
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The California Apartment Association reacted with skepticism this week to an online poll measuring voter support for rent control.
The poll, which comes from the UC Berkeley Institute for Government Studies, found that a majority of California voters support the policy.
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Pacifica voters on Saturday received a thorough education on the flaws and consequences of the rent control proposal appearing on November’s ballot as Measure C.
Measure C is modeled closely after rent control and eviction control ballot measures rejected by voters last year in San Mateo and Burlingame.
Joshua Howard, senior vice president of the California Apartment Association, took part in Saturday’s panel discussion, as did Pacifica Vice Mayor John Keener and representatives of both No and Yes on Measure C campaigns. The breakfast-time discussion was hosted by the Pacifica-Daly City Democrats Club.
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Despite objections from CAA, the Mountain View Rental Housing Committee on Monday declared Dec. 23, 2016, the effective date for the city’s rent control ordinance, even though the law remained on hold until spring of this year.
In addition to implementing rent control, Measure V rolled back rents charged after the effective date to levels collected in October 2015.
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San Jose rental housing owners and managers now have until Sept. 22 to voice opposition to proposed changes to San Jose’s rent control law.
The public comment period regarding the changes originally was set to expire Sept. 14 but has been extended to Sept. 22.
“The city of San Jose needs to hear from you that the latest round of proposed changes to the city’s Apartment Rent Ordinance are excessive and not necessary,” said Anil Babbar, vice president of public affairs at CAA.
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Landlords who didn’t attend Thursday’s meeting about proposed changes to San Jose’s rent control law will get two more chances to speak out.
In addition to yesterday’s meeting, the San Jose Housing Department has scheduled public meetings on rent control for 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, and 5:45 p.m., Sept. 14, in the City Hall Wing Rooms, 200 E. Santa Clara St.
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Tenant advocates are trying to force Mountain View landlords to refund considerable amounts of rent money collected for the period during which a court-ordered postponement of the city’s rent control law was in effect.
The tenants coalition in Mountain View is pushing the city’s Rental Housing Committee to publicize Dec. 23 as the effective date of Measure V, the rent control law approved by voters in the November 2016 election.
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In a victory for the apartment industry, the Fremont City Council on Tuesday opted against using rent control or just-cause eviction policies to address rising rents.