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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 Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider banning nearly all evictions in the county.
Under the ordinance, landlords would be unable to terminate tenancies for lease violations, for owner move‐ins, or even to quit the rental housing business under the Ellis Act.
California cities and counties have one week to decide whether they’ll conform with the state funding allocation under SB 91, the latest legislative response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tenants and landlords.
SB 91, signed into law last Friday, creates a framework to distribute $2.6 billion in federal funds to landlords who have lost rental income during the COVID-19 pandemic. Landlords with qualifying tenants can receive up to 80% of the rent owed if they agree to forgive the remaining 20%.
Local governments that decline to follow state rules established through the legislation, including the 80%/20% payment… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has worked with the city of San Jose to require that tenants declare COVID-related financial hardships before qualifying for the city’s new rent freeze.
The new rent freeze ordinance, approved unanimously by the City Council Tuesday, took effect immediately and will run until June 30.
The rent freeze will apply only to tenants in rent-controlled units who give their landlords a declaration of COVID-19 related financial distress.
This latter requirement, secured by CAA, sets the new ordinance apart from San Jose’s previous rent freeze, which expired at the end of 2020. That ordinance applied to all… Read More
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Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed 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.
The legislation, SB 91, won overwhelming bipartisan approval Thursday in both houses of the Legislature.
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. If the landlord refuses this arrangement, the maximum subsidy drops… Read More
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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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Courts should not allow the government to use previous infringements on private property rights as a justification for further infringements. That is the central argument in a brief filed jointly by the California Apartment Association and San Francisco Apartment Association.
The brief supports a lawsuit filed by the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) and Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) – groups that, like CAA, represent the interests of rental property owners – challenging 2019 amendments to New York City’s rent control law.
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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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CAA last week partnered with Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone to explain how owners of multifamily properties can get a temporary reduction on their property tax assessments.
Larry Stone
During a webinar, Stone reviewed Proposition 8, which allows for a temporary reduction in assessments. The assessor also discussed the information his office requires from commercial property owners to process tax-reduction applications for the 2021-22 tax bill.
Under Proposition 8, property owners can apply for a temporary reduction in assessed value when a property suffers a “decline in value.” A decline in value is when the market value of a… Read More
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