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The California Apartment Association last week joined the city of Sacramento in its lawsuit to keep a draconian rent control initiative off the November 2020 ballot.
Like the city, CAA opposes the far-reaching rent control measure, which traces back to 2018, when local tenant activists tried to qualify a rent control initiative for November of that year. Although rent control proponents failed to collect enough signatures for the fall, they kept circulating their petition and ultimately qualified the initiative for the November 2020 election.
The ballot arguments against Proposition 21 in the Nov. 3 voter guide will come from Californians for Responsible Housing, a campaign committee created by the California Apartment Association.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla
Secretary of State Alex Padilla selected the arguments from Californians for Responsible Housing last week, making it the official campaign of record against the extreme rent control proposition.
November’s election marks a second housing-policy showdown between Californians for Responsible Housing and anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein.
Two years ago, Weinstein used his AIDS Healthcare Foundation to bankroll a radical rent control measure that appeared on the November ballot… Read More
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The California Apartment Association this week issued opposition letters regarding three of the most troubling rental housing-related bills of 2020.
The bills include AB 1703, which would give tenants and certain community groups an unfair head start in purchasing rental housing; AB 1436, which would force landlords to defer rents for possibly months on end; and AB 828, an unfair attempt to allow the government and the courts to give extended tenancies to all renters — even those not facing economic hardships.
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Amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday once again closed indoor fitness centers — including those in apartment communities — in many parts of California.
These closures apply to counties that have appeared on the County Monitoring List for three consecutive days. A list of those counties can be found about halfway down this page.
In impacted counties, fitness centers must be shut down unless they can be modified to operate outside.
For more information about COVID-19 and its impacts on the rental housing business, visit CAA’s COVID-19 resources page or its page about reopening efforts.
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If you’re a Los Angeles landlord whose tenants can’t pay the rent because of COVID-19, you may want to refer them to the city.
The L.A. City Council has approved a $100 million rent relief fund to help cover the rent of lower-income tenants who’ve been financially hurt by the virus.
To qualify for a grant, a tenant must earn 80% of the area median income or less and be able to document an inability to pay the rent because of coronavirus.
Only tenants can apply for the subsidies, not landlords. And renters must act quickly. The city will only… Read More
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Tom Bannon
In CAA’s sixth podcast, Tom Bannon, CAA’s chief executive officer, discusses the many problems with Proposition 21 — including its impact on small-scale landlords — and ways the rental housing industry can help defeat the proposal in November’s election.
Listen here
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The Concord City Council on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to its rental housing laws, including the rolling back of the city’s rent mediation program and new requirements surrounding fixed-term leases and relocation assistance.
The changes are the culmination of a multi-year review of the city’s landlord-tenant policies. They also follow repeated efforts by Concord tenant advocacy groups to bring rent control and “just cause” eviction policies to the city — efforts the California Apartment Association continues to thwart.
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Selling rental properties in California will take significantly longer if a bill introduced this month becomes law.
Under AB 1703 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, tenants and certain community groups would have the right to make an offer to buy rental housing before any other prospective buyers.
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California’s Secretary of State’s Office has assigned a proposition number to the extreme rent control measure slated for the Nov. 3 statewide ballot: Proposition 21.
The measure attacks California’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and would welcome back the extreme forms of rent control that proliferated in California in the 1970s and make California’s housing crisis even worse.
Anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein is bankrolling the campaign to pass the measure, using funds from the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation, of which he is president.
Until now, Weinstein’s radical rent control measure has often been referred to as Proposition 10 2.0 for its… Read More
The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Friday, July 3, in observance of Independence Day. Normal operating hours will resume Monday, July 6.
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