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Peruse the dozens of pictures from the California Apartment Association’s 2013 Legislative Conference in Sacramento. Photos by Bob Knapik.
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Rental housing professionals and vendors gathered with legislators — and posed for a few pictures — during Feb. 13’s Legislative Conference at the Sheraton in downtown Sacramento.
Smiling for the camera in this shot, from left: Dan McCoy, vice president operations, GSF Properties, Inc., David Jackson, district sales manager, WASH Multifamily Laundry Services;
Assemblyman Henry T. Perea, 31st District; Robyn Cue, regional marketing coordinator, Winn Residential; Rosemary Lynch, executive vice president, Buckingham Property Management; and Stephanie Babb, regional director of CAA Greater Fresno.
For a gallery of more photos from the conference, click here.
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By MIKE NEMETH
While Proposition 30 will slow the furious pace of budget cuts, California lawmakers won’t throw away the chopping block, a lawmaker projected earlier this month.
Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, said the state will continue to rein in spending, albeit with less urgency. California voters approved Prop. 30 in November, raising the state’s sales tax by a quarter cent on the dollar. It also boosted income taxes for those earning more than a quarter-million dollars per year.
“If it weren’t for the proposition passing, we’d be having a very different conversation this morning about the state of our… Read More
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During a California Apartment Association event Thursday, a featured speaker predicted that growth in commercial construction will bring a corresponding need for new housing in the Silicon Valley.
Larry Souza of the Johnson Souza Group offered that forecast during Tri-County’s annual economic and legislative summit, which nearly 200 members attended.
The Silicon Valley Business Journal covered portions of Outlook 2013, including Souza’s comments.
“My projections are we’ll reach the peak of the commercial real estate and business cycle by 2017 — and then probably be back in another recession,” he said, according to the Business Journal story. Souza’s presentation also… Read More
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U.S. home-building giant Lennar Corp. is extending its reach into rental housing, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.
Lennar Multifamily Investors has projects worth in excess of $1 billion slated for the next three years, including 6,500 apartments, the Journal says.
“There will consistently be a large group of people who simply can’t buy a home, and won’t buy a home, and are looking for rentals,” Chief Executive Stuart Miller said, according to the newspaper.
In terms of sales, Lennar is the No. 3 home builder in the United States.
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