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The Santa Rosa City Council on Jan. 26 held a public study session to discuss rent control and other measures touted as renter protections.
The council heard from its hired consultant, who laid out several options for addressing the city’s housing issues, including:
Mediation
Just-cause eviction
Rent stabilization
CAA and business coalition partners mobilized approximately 100 stakeholders to attend this meeting, with many speaking out against rent control and just-cause eviction policies. As a result, Mayor Sawyer and Councilmen Ernesto Olivares and Tom Schwedhelm stated that rent control was not the solution.
Other council members were divided but signaled openness… Read More
In a victory for the California Apartment Association, a pair of Northern California cities rejected rent control Monday night.
In Pacifica, the city scrapped rent control on a 2-3 vote before opting to instead pursue a more collaborative approach.
Instead of rent control, Pacifica will pursue an advisory program encouraging landlords to implement “best practices” that could include moderating rent increases and giving longer notice before raising rents. The council approved this approach on a 4-1 vote about 1 a.m.
The city will now assemble a group of landlords, tenants and homeowners to work with the city manager on creating… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Contra CostaTri-County
A number of Northern California cities will take up rent control early next week.
On Monday, for example, the controversial topic comes to Pacifica and Lafayette, and on Tuesday, it heads to Santa Rosa.
Below, you’ll find links to stories about the meetings, including ways members of the rental housing industry can help.
Pacifica council to take up rent control Monday
The Pacifica City Council will consider rent control during its Monday meeting, and CAA is calling on members to speak out against this flawed policy. At the meeting, rent control advocates also are expected to demand a just-cause eviction… Read More
Tagged: Just Cause EvictionRent Control
The Pacifica City Council will consider rent control during its Monday meeting, and CAA is calling on members to speak out against this flawed policy.
At the meeting, rent control advocates also are expected to demand a just-cause eviction ordinance, which would make it difficult to evict tenants suspected of violent crimes, making it impossible to protect your residents and property.
It is vital that members of the rental housing industry attend and speak against these harmful regulations and remind council members that:
Rent control isn’t an affordable housing program; it will not build one new unit of housing
Rent… Read More
The Lafayette City Council on Monday is expected to consider a number of bad policies for the multifamily housing industry, including rent control.
The council also is likely to consider a moratorium on rent increases — and perhaps a just-cause for eviction measure, which would make it difficult to evict problem tenants, including those endangering other residents.
The California Apartment Association is encouraging its members to testify at the meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Lafayette Library & Learning Center.
It is important that local members of the rental housing industry remind the council that rent control:… Read More
The Santa Rosa City Council will discuss rent control Tuesday, Jan. 26, and hear from a consultant who’s laid out several options for addressing the city’s housing issues.
During the study session, set for 2 p.m. at City Hall, the council will also review a possible just-cause eviction ordinance, which would make it unduly difficult to evict problem tenants, including those suspected of violent crime.
The California Apartment Association’s North Coast division asks that rental housing owners and managers attend and speak out against both of these flawed policies.
Rent control and just cause are among the options that a… Read More
Just a few days before the rent control discussion returns to Pacifica, the California Apartment Association and the city are partnering to better educate both rental housing providers and renters about their rights and responsibilities.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, CAA Tri-County will present a pair of educational sessions, Managing Rental Housing and a Renters Informational Forum, at Pacifica City Council Chambers.
The sessions are open and free for Pacifica rental owners, operators and residents living in rental housing. Attendees will learn about lease agreements, fair housing laws, and CAA’s Code of Ethics and Resident Bill of Rights.
The sessions were… Read More
Tagged: NewsRent Control Tri-County
The city of Alameda has voted to prolong a temporary 8-percent cap on rent increases while city staff works on a longer-term proposal.
The council also voted to keep its temporary just-cause eviction requirement in place.
Originally, the council approved the rent cap, along with the just-cause eviction provision, in November, and both were set to expire earlier this month.
This month’s unanimous vote by the council extends both the cap on rent increases and just-cause eviction provision by 60 days. This means actions to terminate a tenancy, such as evictions, are limited to certain “for cause/no fault” reasons, such… Read More
Tagged: Just Cause EvictionRent Control
The California Apartment Association is preparing to fight what’s almost certain to be a major statewide, legislative push to broaden the reach of rent control.
The rent control debate heads to the Capitol after a number of cities have considered either introducing or expanding the policy.
In Sacramento, where the 2016 legislative session began this past Monday, tenant advocates have the Costa-Hawkins Act in their cross hairs.
Under Costa-Hawkins, cities can’t impose rent control on housing built after 1995. The act also exempts single-family homes and condos, regardless of construction date. Without the protections of Costa-Hawkins, rent control would have… Read More
CAA North Coast educating council on ills of punitive policies
CAA North Coast eagerly awaits a consultant’s findings — expected to be completed next month — on possible ways to address Santa Rosa’s affordable housing crisis.
On Oct. 20, 2015, the Santa Rosa City Council voted 4-3 to hire the consultant, who is examining three possible approaches to the city’s housing issues: rent control, just‐cause eviction rules, and a process to provide mediation and arbitration between rental property owners and their residents.
The study derives from concerns of a housing crisis in the Santa Rosa region, where rental inventory is… Read More