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The San Mateo City Council in September decided to create a task force to identify sensible ways to increase housing affordability.
The decision to form an advisory group of housing stakeholders came Monday, Sept. 21, following nearly six hours of presentations and public testimony at San Mateo City Hall.
This included comments from CAA Tri-County members with a variety of portfolio sizes. These members presented the council with facts and personal perspectives on the city’s housing market.
“CAA Tri-County would like to thank those who sent e-mails, made phone calls and attended the meeting on Monday night that went beyond… Read More
Costa Mesa Mayor Steve Mensinger, who spearheaded work to bring more than 2,000 residential units to the city, will receive this year’s OC Housing Champion Award.
Mensinger, whose efforts have helped revitalize blighted areas of Costa Mesa, will receive the honor during the California Apartment Association’s Orange County Charity Gala.
Mensinger and several other elected officials will attend the elegant evening event, set for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at the Disneyland Hotel, 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim.
Tickets are $175 and will help CAA meet its goal of raising $50,000 for Orange County United Way to move 12 families into… Read More
The California Apartment Association next week will help address housing issues facing the Inland Empire.
Tom Bannon, chief executive officer for CAA, will speak at “Housing the Future: The Inland Empire as Southern California’s Indispensable Geography.” Bannon is taking part as a member of the Industry Solutions Panel.
The symposium is Thursday, Feb. 5, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Ontario. Local leaders at the event will discuss the Inland Empire’s great potential and its unique challenges.
National CORE, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, has commissioned a series of studies on how the market can begin producing enough homes that families… Read More
When
6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6.
Where
Mountain View Senior Center, 266 Escuela Ave.
Admission
Free. Refreshments will be available.
The California Apartment Association will take part in a roundtable discussion next month about housing costs in Mountain View and the prospects for affordability.
Joshua Howard, senior vice president of local public affairs for CAA, will participate in the Civility Roundtable event Thursday, Nov. 6. The discussion will be dubbed “Can Housing in Mountain View Be Affordable?”
The event will include a community conversation about the local impacts of rapidly increasing housing costs in the region. Project… Read More
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A bill that would likely offer a tax rebate to hundreds of thousands of low-income Californians renters survived its first committee hearing this week.
“It’s essential for people who are low-income and disabled to take care of a lot of their basic needs at a time when costs are raising and rents are raising,” said Mira Ingram. The San Francisco resident, who uses a wheelchair and is on a fixed income, is quoted in this KCBS story about the bill.
AB 2175, or the Renter’s Tax Assistance Act, would provide tax refunds to financially struggling renters.
“Homeowners get state tax… Read More
A bill that would re-establish a tax-assistance program for California renters goes before its first committee hearing this month.
AB 2175, or the Renter’s Tax Assistance Act, would provide tax rebates to low-income tenants.
The bill, sponsored by the California Apartment Association and co-authored by Assemblymen Tom Daly and Phil Ting, heads to the Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation on Monday, April 28.
The amounts of assistance under AB 2175 would vary based on household income, beginning with $250 per year and capping at $348 per year.
For many low-income tenant households, these sums would equate to one or… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has launched a website to educate the public about the Ellis Act, a law that allows landlords to exit the rental housing business.
Passed in 1985, the Ellis Act says no local government can compel a landlord to keep offering his or her housing for rent.
Without this legal protection, property owners could be forced to continue letting their properties, even if they’re losing money, or want to convert their rentals into housing for their own families.
Some politicians and tenant advocacy groups are bent on repealing the Ellis Act, basing their arguments on inaccurate information.… Read More
Despite the federal government shutdown, the Fresno Housing Authority will do its best to keep providing core services to residents, landlords and public partners.
That’s the main message in a letter that the Housing Authority’s chief executive officer, Preston Prince, sent to landlords and community partners Tuesday, Oct. 1.
Luckily, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has provided a large portion of the October money for Housing Assistance Payments to landlords. The Fresno Housing Authority will cover the additional $1.7 million.
If the federal government remains closed, however, HUD may be unable to authorize normal funding to housing… Read More
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Update: On Sunday, Oct. 13, Gov. Brown vetoed Assemblywoman Toni Atkins’ inclusionary zoning bill, AB 1229. The story below was published earlier this month.
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Right or wrong, the specter of rent control has hovered over AB 1229.
Owners of existing rental property, however, shouldn’t sweat it.
Toni Atkins’ inclusionary zoning bill, which remains on Gov. Brown’s desk, wouldn’t change a thing for landlords with property in either rent-control or non-rent-control jurisdictions.
The bill centers on a method for requiring affordable housing in new construction projects and would reaffirm a tool that more than 170 jurisdictions have used to provide… Read More