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With the help of the California Apartment Association, landscapers in Palm Springs can continue to use electric and battery-powered leaf blowers in the city — good news for rental property owners wanting to keep their communities looking sharp.
Tagged: News Greater Inland Empire
ONTARIO — More than 130 rental housing professionals and local elected officials gathered Tuesday for the California Apartment Association’s annual economic forecast for the Greater Inland Empire.
This year’s event, held at the DoubleTree, featured economist Jay Prag of Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker School of Management, and Michael Cobb, market analyst with CoStar Group.
Tagged: Economy Greater Inland Empire
Question: I am an owner of a duplex, and I suspect my next door neighbor is dealing drugs. I have a six-month agreement with him that is not up for several more months. What can I do?
Answer: First, call the police and inform them what you know about the illegal activity. Work with the police to gain enough evidence that will allow you to proceed with an unlawful detainer (eviction). If you can prove the illegal activity, the law allows the owner to serve a three-day notice to vacate. Failure to comply with the notice will give rise to… Read More
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A Berkeley radio talk show Tuesday morning highlighted a CAA-sponsored bill that would make it more difficult to pass certain no-growth measures at the ballot box.
The talk show, KPFA’s UpFront, featured the bill’s author, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles.
AB 943, sponsored by the California Apartment Association, would raise the voter threshold for approving local, citizen-driven no-growth ballot measures in large cities and counties.
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
Concord has tapped Hayward-based ECHO Housing to handle mediation services for the city’s new Residential Rent Review Program.
Tagged: News Contra Costa
A CAA-sponsored bill that would boost construction of micro apartments — especially in areas near public university campuses and public transit — has passed the Senate Committee on Governance and Finance.
The bill, AB 352 by Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, next headed to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
A CAA-sponsored bill that would raise the voter threshold for approving local, citizen-driven no-growth ballot measures passed the Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee. The bill, AB 943 by Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, is now in the Appropriations Committee.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday passed a CAA-sponsored bill to help prevent local governments from arbitrarily denying housing projects.
Tagged: Affordable housing
A bill heading to the Assembly floor would create a streamlined approval process for housing in cities that are not meeting their housing goals.
SB 35 by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, on Wednesday passed the Assembly Committee on Local Government and is now in the Assembly Rules Committee.
“SB 35 will make it easier and faster to build housing throughout California and will stop the obstruction of housing that is all too common in California,” Wiener has said in a news release.
Under SB 35, cities lagging behind their housing goals would need to streamline the developmental review process… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
In a victory for the apartment industry, the Fremont City Council on Tuesday opted against using rent control or just-cause eviction policies to address rising rents.