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The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency is offering emergency rental assistance for residents who have experienced a loss or reduction in wages due to COVID-19.
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The Housing and Redevelopment agency is offering the assistance in partnership with the city and county of Sacramento.
Applications for the Sacramento Emergency Rental Assistance program will be accepted online Friday, Oct. 9, through Thursday, Oct. 29.
Applicants are eligible to receive up to $4,000 in rental assistance via payment made directly to the landlord. The total assistance amount available will depend on household need.
To qualify, applicants must:
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The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has adopted a grant program to provide relief to landlords who’ve experienced lost rent due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The California Apartment Association helped develop the Small Residential Property Owners Program, which supervisors adopted Sept. 15. The program will assist landlords in recouping rental income that’s gone unpaid during the county-enacted eviction moratorium from March through August.
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The Sacramento Bee this weekend urged voters to reject Measure C, the local rent control measure on the city of Sacramento’s Nov. 3 ballot.
The newspaper notes that Measure C should not even be appearing before city voters.
Last year, rent control proponents promised to withdraw their measure from the ballot if the city Council were to adopt is own rent control ordinance. But when the city did just that in summer 2019, only two of the three proponents kept their commitment and submitted withdrawal letters; a third, Michelle Pariset of Public Advocates, did not, leaving the rent control initiative in… Read More
Non-payment filings can begin for tenants without coronavirus hardships
California’s Judicial Council has approved three new forms and one revised form for use in eviction cases governed under the newly signed COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020.
The policymaking body of the California courts approved the forms Friday. The new and revised forms will assist courts in implementing the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, or CTRA, which prohibits the eviction of renters who claim COVID-related hardships. At the same time, the law specifically provides clearance for the court to proceed with unlawful detainer actions, the legal term for evictions, against tenants… Read More
Besides weighing in on Proposition 21, residents in two California cities will get to vote on local rent control initiatives, too.
In the Nov. 3 election, voters in Sacramento and Burbank will decide the fate of Measures C and RC, respectively.
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The California Apartment Association has published an Industry Insights paper with answers to some of the most frequently asked questions on the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020.
On Aug. 31, the state Legislature and governor approved AB 3088, immediately implementing the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act, or CTRA. The urgency measure established sweeping protections against eviction for tenants financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and has spurred numerous questions from rental property owners throughout California.
Here are just a few of the roughly 40 questions answered in the FAQ:
My rental property is a single-family home. Is it exempt from… Read More
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, members of the rental housing industry are invited to take part in the third annual California Landlords’ Summit on Homelessness, Housing Outreach Partnership announced.
The event is being hosted by the Income Property Association of Kern, which is a Bakersfield-area chapter of the California Apartment Association.
Due to COVID-19, the event will be held via Zoom. Event registration is free and open on eventbrite.com at this link.
The event brings landlords and property owners into conversation with homelessness service providers to learn how they can help end homelessness in California. Last year’s summit resulted in 94… Read More
Fresno Mayor Lee Brand, along with community groups across the Central Valley, have joined the opposition to Proposition 21, the extreme rent control measure going before California voters on Nov. 3 ballot.
Fresno Mayor Lee Brand
“Prop 21 is the same bad idea the voters rejected in 2018,” Brand said. “It would give unelected rent boards unlimited power to create housing fees that would cripple the industry. Not only would increased fees hurt renters whose pocketbooks have already been hit because of COVID-19, mom and pop landlords who can’t pay their mortgages due to the pandemic would never recover.”
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The California Apartment Association has issued a letter outlining its opposition to a proposal that would nearly double an annual inspection fee for apartments in the city of Los Angeles.
The Housing Department seeks permission from the City Council to raise the code enforcement fee from $43.32 to $81.59 per unit per year.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced his opposition to Proposition 21, the extreme rent control measure on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot.
Newsom also opposed Proposition 10, a nearly identical measure that went down in defeat in 2018.
Gov. Gavin Newsom
“In the past year, California has passed a historic version of statewide rent control – the nation’s strongest rent caps and renter protections in the nation – as well as short-term eviction relief,” the governor said in a press release. “But Proposition 21, like Proposition 10 before it, runs the all-too-real risk of discouraging availability of affordable housing in our… Read More
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