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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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While Los Angeles has left many landlords unable to collect any rent during the pandemic, it’s now given waste haulers the go-ahead to increase fees on those very rental property owners and other businesses. And those fees are jumping up to 6.15%
The California Apartment Association has objected to the city’s apparent double standard. While trash-haulers raise prices, landlords face a stringent eviction moratorium, a freeze on rent increases, and in many circumstances, a prohibition on collecting any rent at all.
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The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 18, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday, Jan. 19.
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President-elect Joe Biden said Thursday he would urge Congress to extend the nation’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium through September while also providing an additional $30 billion in rental assistance.
The rent relief would be part of a nearly $2 trillion stimulus plan that also includes $1,400 payments to qualifying individuals. The proposals would bolster the $25 billion in rental aid and $600 stimulus payments in the COVID-19 economic relief package approved in December.
California’s governor and Legislature must take immediate steps to help businesses recover from a pandemic that continues to squeeze the economy, says a letter to state elected leaders from CAA and other business groups.
The Jan. 11 letter, addressed to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate and Assembly leadership and other state lawmakers, points to the turmoil that COVID-19 related business closures have caused. And with repeated surges in infections and hospitalizations, a full reopening of California’s economy remains out of reach.
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Protections against price gouging, including rent increases over 10%, have been extended until the end of 2021 in several counties ravaged by wildfires in recent years.
The extended protections apply to the counties of Los Angeles, Butte, Mendicino, Napa, Ventura and Sonoma, which saw fires between 2017 and 2019.
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The California Apartment Association has persuaded the Fair Employment and Housing Council to drop a provision that would have required landlords to accept guarantors on behalf of tenants.
The requirement was a provision in the latest round of proposed fair housing regulations.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget blueprint for 2020-21 includes several proposals that could help Californians recover financially from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newsom’s $227.2 billion spending plan, which he submitted to the Legislature this past Friday, would provide financial help to low-income Californians, launch a program to create jobs, and offer tax credits to spur affordable housing construction.
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