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California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office today released a report predicting that Michael Weinstein’s Rental Affordability Act, or Proposition 10 2.0, would exacerbate the state’s chronic housing shortage by leading rental property owners to remove units from the market.
The proposition is Weinstein’s latest attempt to return
extreme forms of rent control to California through the statewide initiative
process. Weinstein’s previous bid for radical rent control — Proposition 10 —
failed miserably at the polls this past November.
The proposed statewide ballot measure would allow cities and
counties to impose rent control on buildings after they turn 15 years old.
Under… Read More
Despite
strong opposition from the California Apartment Association, the San Rafael
City Council passed a “just cause” eviction and mandatory-mediation ordinance Monday
on a 3-1 vote.
The just-cause eviction
ordinance will prevent landlords from terminating tenancies without
proving that a specified cause exists. Such policies drag out the eviction
process and make it more difficult and costlier to terminate tenancies.
Mandatory mediation will be required
for rental increases exceeding 5 percent over a 12-month period and will
include single-family homes.
Matthew Buck
The
California Apartment Association has again expanded its public affairs team in
Los Angeles County, better positioning the association to meet the legislative
and compliance needs of its members.
Matthew Buck, a veteran government affairs advocate at CAA, was tapped this spring to spearhead the association’s public affairs work in Glendale, Pasadena, Alhambra, West Covina and Pomona. Buck previously headed CAA’s government advocacy programs in Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Bringing Buck to L.A. County marks the second time in as many years that CAA has added public affairs resources to the region, which continues to present… Read More
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Question: We have served our tenant a 60-day notice of termination of tenancy; however, they have quit paying the rent. Now we are preparing to send a three-day notice to pay rent or quit. What is the next step if they do not pay?
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Tenant activists are again attempting to place a rent
control measure before voters in Pasadena.
Rent control proponents last month announced they would
attempt to qualify an initiative for the November 2020 ballot. Although the measure
currently lacks details, tenant activists hope to cap rents at the rate of
inflation and include a “just cause” eviction policy in the measure, according
to LAist.
The Pasadena Tenant Justice Coalition is behind the latest
effort. The coalition includes five groups: the Pasadena Tenants Union; Socialist
Scientists of Pasadena; Affordable Housing Services; American Civil Liberties
Union—Southern California; and the Democratic
Socialists of America… Read More
Gov. Gavin Newsom has extended a prohibition on rent increases over 10 percent for several counties devastated by wildfires over the past few years.
In an executive order, Newsom announced that protections against price gouging of rents and other consumer goods will continue through Dec. 31 of this year for Mendocino, Napa, Santa Barbara, Shasta, and Sonoma counties. Newsom’s order came Friday, May 31, the day the protections had been scheduled to expire. It is intended to help residents still recovering from 2017 and 2018 fires, including the Mendocino Complex, Carr, Tubbs, Nuns, Atlas and Thomas fires.
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The California Apartment Association remains steadfastly opposed to AB 1482, the statewide rent control bill, which fails to address the ongoing housing shortage and stands to make the problem worse.
The bill, by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San
Francisco, passed off the Assembly floor this week and advanced to the state
Senate.
“It
makes no sense to cap rents unless you’re also going to cap all of the operating
expenses that apartment owners incur,” said Tom Bannon, CAA’s chief executive
officer. “And there’s nothing in this bill that encourages one… Read More
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A grassroots campaign led by the California Apartment
Association has helped stop a tenant-unionizing bill that sought special
protections for renters’ rights groups.
SB 529 by Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles, died on the Senate floor this week, lacking the votes needed to proceed to the Assembly.
Sen. Maria Elena Durazo
Prior to sweeping amendments to the bill this month, SB 529 would
have allowed tenant groups to withhold rent payments in response to grievances
or complaints against a landlord. The bill at one point specified rent
increases over the rate of inflation as justification for a rent strike… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has stopped a bill that
would have imposed “just cause” eviction controls across California.
On Thursday, AB 1481 died for the year, lacking the votes needed to win full Assembly approval by this week’s deadline.
CAA led a strong grassroots campaign to defeat the bill.
At its Legislative Conference, the California Apartment
Association spent Wednesday morning providing a crash course on the most significant
legislation facing the rental housing industry in 2019.
By the afternoon, more than 400 rental housing professionals,
thoroughly prepped by CAA’s public affairs team, were ready for their walk to
the Capitol, where they went from office to office, advocating for their
industry in one of the busiest years in recent memory for landlord-tenant
legislation.
The program started at 10 a.m. in a sprawling ballroom in the
downtown Sacramento Sheraton Grand. Over the next two hours, CAA’s government
affairs leaders… Read More