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The California Apartment Association spent many years developing a good working relationship with the Sacramento County code enforcement staff. The effort continues to pay off for the industry.
One example is the recent agreement between CAA and county staff to limit an increase of the annual Rental Housing Code Compliance Fee to only 50 cents. If approved by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, the fee will increase by 3.2 percent, from $15.50 per unit to $16 per unit, effective January 2019. The fee funds the rental housing inspection program and had not been increased in over three years.
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Tagged: Compliance Sacramento Valley
Rent control activists in National City on Thursday submitted signatures in hopes of placing a rent control measure before voters this November.
Signatures filed at City Hall numbered more than 3,500, more than enough to qualify the initiative.
The petition must now undergo a signature count and verification process. If enough valid voter signatures were collected, the National City Rent Control and Community Stabilization Ordinance (accessible here) will be officially slated for November’s ballot.
The ballot measure would create a rent board funded by annual landlord fees, cap annual rent increases based on the rate of inflation and impose “just… Read More
The Torrance City Council on Tuesday, May 15, kicked off the creation of a seismic-retrofit ordinance for the city’s building stock.
The ordinance would include soft-story construction prior to 1997, including multifamily buildings. A staff report is available here.
The California Apartment Association is supporting a bill that would add protections for property owners and tenants who make calls to law enforcement for help.
Tagged: Crime PreventionLegislation
An Assembly bill intended to curb illegal marijuana cultivation could have unintended consequences for landlords whose tenants secretly set up growing operations in their units.
Under AB 2164 by Assemblyman Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova, individuals accused of violating local cannabis laws – including tenants and their unsuspecting landlords — could face fines and other penalties without first getting a chance to appeal and remedy the problem.
Tagged: Legislation
The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday.
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Rent control activists in the city of Santa Cruz filed signatures in hopes of qualifying a rent control measure for the November ballot.
The Movement for Housing Justice submitted over 10,000 signatures, significantly more than the 5,600 required to qualify the measure.
The Santa Cruz County Registrar of Voters will now count and check the validity of the signatures, a process that the California Apartment Association will monitor closely.
The California Apartment Association has added landlord safeguards to a bill that would ensure a tenant’s ability to pay rent through a third party.
Historically, landlords have been unwilling to accept payments from third parties over concerns that a third party would claim a right to possession of the unit.
CAA worked with the author, Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, to prevent this from happening.
Tagged: Legislation
A movement to spread rent control throughout California has now reached the far-eastern portion of Los Angeles County.
Tenant activists have begun collecting signatures to place a rent control and “just cause” eviction measure before Ponoma voters this November.
Election officials will now determine whether a rent control initiative has qualified to appear before Inglewood voters this November.
On Tuesday, May 9, price control advocates filed more than 14,000 signatures with the city clerk. The coalition needs approximately 10,000 valid voter signatures to place the initiative on the ballot. The Inglewood City Clerk will have thirty days to verify and authenticate the signatures.
The California Apartment Association is closely monitoring this process …