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The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Monday, Feb. 15, in observance of Presidents Day. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday.
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The California Apartment Association is now accepting applications to serve on its 2021 committees.
If you have an interest in applying
for membership on a committee, you are invited to:
1. Read the committee descriptions to determine what involvement would best align with your area or areas of expertise.
2. Then, complete the committee application and submit it by close of business on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, so that committee assignments can be made in a timely manner.
2021 CAA committee descriptions
2021 CAA committee application
Thank you in advance for your
interest and commitment to the California Apartment Association.… Read More
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The Sacramento CARES Mediation Program is continuing to offer free services to landlords and tenants within the city.
According to the city, the program can ease difficult conversations, which can lead to agreements suitable for all sides.
For assistance, call the CARES Mediation line at (916) 850-9010 or email sacramento@calawyersforthearts.org. Information is also available at sacramentocovidrelief.org.
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The city of Los Angeles wants its waste haulers to reconsider the timing of a fee increase on rental property owners and other customers.
The city’s waste haulers have planned a 6.15% rate hike for 2021. Since 2017, rental property owners have been unable to negotiate and choose their waste-hauling services.
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The California Legislature today approved a bill that will use $2.6 billion in federal funds to pay landlords up to 80% of rent owed by qualifying tenants with COVID-19 financial hardships.
SB 91 passed the Senate on a 34-0 vote and the Assembly on a 71-1 vote. Gov. Newsom is expected to sign the legislation shortly.
SB 91 will use federal funds to pay up to 80% of a tenant’s back rent accumulated between April 1 of last year and March 31, 2021. A landlord who accepts the money will have to forgive the remaining unpaid rent for that period.… Read More
The city of San Jose and several other California jurisdictions are considering stricter landlord-tenant policies in response to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic.
In San Jose, the city is poised to bring back last year’s freeze on all rent increases for rent-controlled units.
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An updated edition of CAA’s Managing Rental Housing textbook is now available for purchase.
Managing Rental Housing offers a veritable encyclopedia of state rental housing law, explains the cycle of the tenancy, and provides practical information needed to operate rental property efficiently, ethically, and profitably in California.
CAA’s premiere textbook has been thoroughly updated for its 10th edition. It is more user-friendly and addresses the biggest change in California landlord-tenant law in decades: The Tenant Protection Act of 2019, also known as AB 1482.
To purchase the print edition of Managing Rental Housing, click the button below. An electronic version… Read More
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The California Legislature approved a bill Jan. 28 that would reimburse qualifying tenants and landlords for most unpaid rent accrued since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the economy last spring.
SB 91 would use federal funds to pay up to 80% of back rent accumulated between April 1 of last year and March 31, 2021. A landlord who accepts the money would have to forgive the remaining unpaid rent for that period.
Additional federal dollars would be available to help cover unpaid rent from March through June of this year.
To qualify for the federal dollars, the unpaid rent must… Read More
The California Apartment Association has demanded that any extension of the state’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium include assistance for landlords who have been required to provide housing while collecting little-to-no rent.
While California’s COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020 is slated to expire Jan. 31, political headwinds make an extension a near certainty.
The details of that extension, however, are still under negotiation.
CAA this week sent a letter to the governor and legislative leadership and has urged its members to call their representatives with concerns and requests.
“While CAA does not object to a short extension of AB 3088, we… Read More
On the first day of his presidency, Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered a two-month extension of the nation’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium.
The federal eviction protections, which had been slated to sunset Jan. 31, will now run through March 31 unless extended by the president or Congress. The effect of the federal order on California is largely dependent on the fate of the state’s own eviction moratorium. California’s statewide eviction protections, arguably more stringent than the federal order, are set to expire next week, although renewal is a foregone conclusion.
The ultimate timeline for both federal and state moratoria remain at… Read More
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