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Landlords who didn’t attend Thursday’s meeting about proposed changes to San Jose’s rent control law will get two more chances to speak out.
In addition to yesterday’s meeting, the San Jose Housing Department has scheduled public meetings on rent control for 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, and 5:45 p.m., Sept. 14, in the City Hall Wing Rooms, 200 E. Santa Clara St.
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
Members of the California Apartment Association are encouraged to attend a workshop next month focused on boosting affordable housing in Sonoma County.
The informational discovery workshop, scheduled for Sept. 19, comes as the Rent Sonoma County Committee and local rental housing providers explore a partnership to increase the availability of units for low-income renters.
The session is set to run from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Community Development Commission Hearing Room, 1440 Guerneville Road, Santa Rosa.
Tagged: Affordable housing North Bay
Los Angeles’ new waste-hauling system, which applies to much of the city’s multifamily housing, has generated complaints of dramatically higher prices and spotty service, the Los Angeles Times reported this week.
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In 2017, solving California’s housing crisis remained a top goal of the state Legislature.
The result? More than 130 housing-related bills in the first half of the year.
The California Apartment Association’s Legislative Steering Committee examined each of these proposals — and CAA’s public affairs staff helped advance the best of them.
Here are some notable examples of 2017 bills intended to solve California’s housing crisis and the status of each:
The California Apartment Association has secured a voice on the Committee to House the Bay Area, a task force launching a 16-month campaign to help solve the region’s housing crisis.
Tagged: Affordable housing Tri-County
Although they’re just beginning their summer recess, California lawmakers already have a clear priority for when they return to the Capitol on Aug. 21 — finishing work on hundreds of housing-related bills.
Those bills include a trio of housing-production proposals sponsored by the California Apartment Association, which are included within the affordable housing bills being urged by Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers.
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
Tenant advocates are trying to force Mountain View landlords to refund considerable amounts of rent money collected for the period during which a court-ordered postponement of the city’s rent control law was in effect.
The tenants coalition in Mountain View is pushing the city’s Rental Housing Committee to publicize Dec. 23 as the effective date of Measure V, the rent control law approved by voters in the November 2016 election.
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
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
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