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A cap on rent increases in the city of Vallejo will remain in effect for at least a few more weeks – and possibly much longer.
During a special meeting July 3, the City Council declared a local emergency that triggered protections against price gouging under state law. Once activated, the state’s anti-price-gouging law prohibits price increases over 10% for many consumer goods and services, including rental housing, for 30 days following the declaration.
A bill that would impose rent control and “just cause” eviction policies statewide won passage Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The legislation advanced on a 6-1 vote with one abstention. It now heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee, its last stop before the Senate floor.
The bill would cap annual rent increases at 7% plus the consumer price index — the same formula adopted earlier this year in Oregon. The bill would apply to nearly all of California’s rental housing stock, including apartments and some single-family homes, and it would apply in jurisdictions where voters and local elected leaders… Read More
Signature-gathering is expected to begin soon in Michael Weinstein’s latest effort to place a radical rent control measure before California voters.
California’s attorney general this week issued a title and summary for Weinstein’s Rental Affordability Act, or Proposition 10 2.0, clearing the way for signature-gathering to begin.
The California Apartment Association has learned that Weinstein has retained a signature-gathering firm, which will likely hit the streets in a matter of days. If the statewide ballot initiative ultimately qualifies, it will appear before California voters in November 2020.
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A grassroots campaign led by the California Apartment Association has stopped a “just cause” eviction policy, a rent moratorium, and an unreasonable new trigger for mediation from coming to Concord.
A CAA-opposed bill that would apply rent control across California will
receive its first hearing in the state Senate next month.
On Tuesday, July 9, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider AB 1482 by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco. The bill surfaced despite the overwhelming defeat of Proposition 10, a statewide rent control bill on last November’s ballot.
AB 1482 would apply rent control to all types of housing in every city and county in California.
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A California Apartment Association-led business coalition this week defeated a pair of rent control ordinances proposed for the city of Anaheim.
Early Wednesday, after meeting for more than 12 hours, the council rejected both measures on a 5-2 vote.
The ordinances threatened to cap rent increases at 5% plus the rate of inflation for at least six months, time the city would have used researching permanent rent control policies.
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The California Apartment Association is calling on its members to speak out against a package of landlord-tenant proposals that would bring rent and eviction controls to the city of Concord.
CAA asks
that rental housing providers speak out at the Concord City Council meeting on
Wednesday, June 19, and email council members today.
At Wednesday’s meeting, the council will vote on the following:
“Just cause”
eviction ordinance: limits
your ability to regain possession of your property or evict problem tenants.
Tenant relocation
fee: a forced payment to the
tenant of up to three times the market rent if you don’t renew a lease.
Binding arbitration: a mandatory requirement for you to justify rent… Read More
As expected, the Long Beach City Council on Tuesday formalized its approval of an ordinance that will effectively cap rent increases at 10% on the city’s older apartment buildings and limit the ability of landlords to terminate tenancies.
Approval of the second reading came on a 6-3 vote, the same as with last month’s first reading.
Despite opposition from the California Apartment Association, the Inglewood City Council on Tuesday unanimously granted preliminary approval to a permanent rent control ordinance, capping rental increases for most affected apartments at 5% per year.
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Culver City is about to become the latest Southern
California community to weigh rent control policies.
On Monday, June 24, the City Council is scheduled to discuss
a possible
freeze on rent increases.
In preparation, the California Apartment Association and the
Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles are holding a joint town hall
discussion, Thursday, June 20. Members of both associations are invited to participate
in the gathering, which starts at 6 p.m. at the Culver City
Rotary Plaza.
“Housing providers must come together to get informed and
become organized,” said Fred Sutton, CAA vice president of public affairs. “Learn… Read More
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