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California’s largest businesses, including
those in the rental housing industry, have just a few weeks to begin complying
with the nation’s most sweeping consumer-privacy law.
The California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect Jan. 1 and is intended to give consumers greater insights into data that companies collect about them — and more control over what happens to that data.
The law, which is being compared to the European Union’s privacy laws, mainly targets large companies — those with annual revenues of $25 million or more — as well as firms in the business of collecting and selling personal information.
Although… Read More
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An
urgency “just cause” ordinance that would have placed immediate restrictions on
tenancy terminations has failed to get the required supermajority vote of the
Vallejo City Council.
On
Tuesday, only four of the seven council members voted for the measure, and five
votes are needed to pass any urgency ordinance that takes effect immediately.
Instead,
the City Council voted to leave in place an existing local proclamation of
emergency that caps any rent increases in Vallejo at 10%, but only through Dec.
31, 2019. That’s
because beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the rent cap and “just cause” tenancy
termination restrictions under… Read More
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The
California Apartment Association is gearing up for another campaign to keep
radical forms of rent control out of California.
Once again,
anti-housing crusader Michael Weinstein is using the initiative process in an
attempt to resurrect the radical rent control policies of the 1970s – policies
that would place homes further out of reach for seniors and working families
and exacerbate California’s homelessness crisis.
At a series of rallies Thursday, Weinstein and other tenant activists announced they had enough signatures to qualify their latest radical rent control measure for the November 2020 ballot.
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The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 28, and Friday, Nov. 29, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Normal operating hours will resume Monday, Dec. 2.
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The Rancho Cordova City Council adopted a temporary no-cause eviction ordinance intended to prevent owners from terminating tenancies before AB 1482 takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
The action was taken despite one council member remarking that the ordinance was “dumb legislation” and “could cause more harm than good.”
Under the emergency ordinance, rental owners may not terminate a tenancy without cause through Dec. 31, 2019. Any notice issued after the ordinance was passed on Nov. 18 without one of of the permissible “at-fault” just causes is invalid. However, notices issued prior to the council meeting are not affected. The… Read More
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Rental owners and property managers in the city of
Sacramento are focused on complying with AB 1482 as well as the Tenant
Protection and Relief Act passed by the Sacramento City Council. However, they
should not forget about the local rent control and “just cause” initiative
that already qualified for the ballot in 2020.
In October 2018, the registrar of voters certified that a coalition of tenant and labor activists, including ACCE and SEIU, had submitted enough signatures for the initiative to be placed on a future ballot. The coalition intended for the initiative to appear on the November 2018… Read More
Thanks to the efforts of the California Apartment
Association, a proposal to implement a permanent “just cause” for eviction
ordinance, and impose it at the beginning of tenancies, failed to move forward
Tuesday.
The proposal would have gone further than AB 1482, the
upcoming state law that applies its just-cause provisions only after tenants
have been in place for a fixed amount of time.
After hearing from CAA members, the council opted to adopt a temporary just-cause stopgap measure until AB 1482 takes effect Jan. 1. Unlike the permanent proposal, the stopgap measure will expire at the end of this… Read More
Despite staunch opposition from the California Apartment Association, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a permanent rent control ordinance for unincorporated areas of the county.
The approval came on a 4-1 vote with Supervisor Kathryn Barger dissenting. Tuesday’s decision followed two years of hearings, meetings and public testimony from CAA about the drawbacks of local rent control ordinances.
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The California Apartment Association has introduced a new, more logical system for numbering all its forms.
The association’s more than 270 forms are now numbered to correspond with the order in which they are used. For example, the first form number, CA-001, is for the application to rent – the first form used in the tenancy. A 30-day termination notice, meanwhile, has a much higher number, CA-235, because it’s at the end of tenancy process.
For a chart showing all of CAA’s forms, including form name, new number and old number, click here.
If you still want to search for forms using the old… Read More
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The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, in observance of Veterans Day. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday.
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