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The California Apartment Association is once again encouraging members with available units in Napa or Sonoma counties to contact CAA and consider making special considerations for fire victims.
Special considerations may include offering reduced move-in costs or discounted deposits for those who lost their homes.
CAA members with available units are asked to send an email to CAA.
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Tenant advocates in Pasadena have filed preliminary paperwork to place rent control on an upcoming city ballot.
In addition to rent control, the proposed initiative would seek just-cause eviction policies in Pasadena and the establishment of a rent board.
After hours of debate, the San Jose City Council on Tuesday rejected a proposal to begin basing its annual rent cap on the rate of inflation.
At the urging of CAA, the council instead voted 6-5 to maintain the city’s current 5 percent limit on annual rent increases.
The California Apartment Association attended Tuesday’s meeting in force, with members speaking against the proposal to base rent control on the Consumer Price Index. The CPI is now about 3.4 percent but fluctuates.
The city’s 5 percent cap, on the other hand, provides a fixed, predictable limit, making it easier for owners… Read More
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The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 23, and Friday, Nov. 24, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Normal operating hours will resume Monday, Nov. 27.
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Pacifica voters on Tuesday, Nov. 7, overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have enacted both rent control and eviction controls on multifamily housing in the city.
Measure C went down in defeat, with 62.03 percent of the vote cast against the proposal. This marks the third time a rent control ballot measure has been resoundingly defeated in San Mateo County. Last year, voters of San Mateo and Burlingame overwhelmingly rejected rent control.
CAA is pleased that voters have rejected a law that would have been disastrous for the city. If implemented, the program would have cost Pacifica nearly $2… Read More
The San Jose City Council next month will vote whether to lower its annual cap on rent increases for the second time in less than two years.
At its Tuesday, Nov. 14 meeting, the council will consider switching to a rent control formula based on the rate of inflation, or the Consumer Price Index. The CPI is now about 3.4 percent.
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Rent increases limited to 10 percent
Under an executive order by Gov. Jerry Brown, protections against price-gouging in the wake of the North Bay fires — including rent increases over 10 percent — will be in effect until at least April of next year.
The ban on price gouging, which originally had a 30-day time limit, is now in effect until April 18, 2018.
The state’s anti-price gouging law went into effect earlier this month after the president and governor issued a state of emergency in California.
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The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Friday, Nov. 10, in observance of Veterans Day. Normal operating hours will resume Monday.
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A statewide ballot initiative filed Monday, Oct. 23, seeks to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, landmark legislation that protects property owners and renters from radical, local rent control measures.
For over 20 years, the Costa-Hawkins Act has prohibited local governments from regulating the price of rents on rental units built after 1995. Costa-Hawkins also prohibits a local government from regulating rents on single-family homes, individually owned condominiums and townhouses.
Moreover, the act also requires all rent control ordinances to allow a rental property owner to set the rent at market rate once a new tenant moves out and a… Read More