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With the state Legislature’s intense focus on housing this year, the California Apartment Association has played an unprecedented role in shaping policy at the Capitol.
In the 2015-16 legislative session, CAA lobbied on 126 housing-related bills. While all lobbying activity is important, the Association’s work on the following bills was especially noteworthy:
Seismic retrofit tax credit
AB 2392 by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, D-Sherman Oaks, would establish the California Seismic Safety Capital Access Loan Program to assist residential property owners and small business owners in seismically retrofitting residences and small businesses.
Position: Support
Status: Senate Committee on Governance and Finance
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The California Apartment Association has named Matthew Buck as its new executive in the Greater Inland Empire.
Buck assumed his new role July 1. Now vice president of public affairs, he previously served CAA members in the region as government affairs director.
CAA’s Greater Inland Empire office spans the counties of San Bernardino, Riverside and the eastern region of Los Angeles County.
“In his tenure as government affairs director for us the last few years, Buck has proven he’s ready to assume responsibility for CAA’s public affairs operations in the Greater Inland Empire,” said Tom Bannon, chief executive officer of… Read More
Tagged: Leadership Greater Inland Empire
The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday, July 5.
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All five bills sponsored by the California Apartment Association this year remain intact as the state Legislature adjourns for its month-long summer break.
The bills — four on housing production and one on medical marijuana — will continue their journey toward the governor’s desk when lawmakers return in August.
The legislation on marijuana, AB 2300, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
The CAA sponsored bill, authored by Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, deals with smoking medical marijuana in rental properties. AB 2300 would clarify that owners have the right to prohibit the activity, just as they can ban the smoking… Read More
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
The California Apartment Association’s fight against rent control reaches far beyond city council votes and local ballot measures.
It stretches back to Sacramento, where four CAA bills to increase the production of housing continue to progress through the state Legislature.
CAA’s bills would prevent local government from delaying or blocking many housing proposals, including those opposed by NIMBYs, short for Not in My Backyard.
For California to achieve a balance between new jobs and new homes, cities and counties must allow developments to move forward without unreasonable delay.
Otherwise, families can’t find affordable housing near their jobs and schools —… Read More
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It’s now up to election officials to determine whether a rent control initiative has qualified for the November ballot in Mountain View.
On Tuesday, June 14, the Mountain View Tenants Coalition submitted more than 7,100 signatures to the city clerk.
The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters will now count and check the validity of the signatures. The coalition needed 4,671 registered voters to sign their petition to qualify the initiative for the ballot.
The California Apartment Association is closely monitoring this process to ensure it follows procedures outlined in the California Election Code.
The measure would impose rent control… Read More
A bill that would remove local barriers to adding second units on residential lots passed its first hurdle in the Senate this week.
The Senate’s Transportation and Housing Committee on Tuesday approved AB 2299 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, on a 7-0 vote with four abstentions.
Under AB 2299, local governments would have to allow the construction of second units that meet specific standards and are within one-half mile of public transportation.
The bill, sponsored by the California Apartment Association, now heads to the Committee on Governance and Finance.
AB 2299 is one of four CAA-sponsored housing production bills… Read More
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
By Thursday evening, all four housing-production bills sponsored by the California Apartment Association had advanced from the Assembly to the state Senate.
Three of the bills moved off the Assembly floor in the past week — the latest coming Thursday, June 2, with the approval of AB 2299. This legislation, authored by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, would mandate that local governments allow for the construction of second units on residential lots if those units meet specific standards and are located within one-half mile of public transportation.
On Friday, May 27, the Assembly approved another bill authored by Bloom, AB… Read More
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
When first introduced, AB 2282 would have limited the number of single-family home rentals allowed in a given ZIP code. Then, it would have required all the single-famly rentals be registered with the state. Now, thanks to the lobbying efforts of CAA, the bill by Assemblyman Ian Calderon will do neither.
The current version of AB 2282 aims to create a report of how large-scale buy-to-rent investors have affected California’s real estate market.
The legislation has been reinvented repeatedly since it emerged in February. Perhaps most alarming was the original version’s limit on the number of single-family homes that property… Read More
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The California Apartment Association and coalition partners – The California Association of Realtors, the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Building Industry Association, and the California Business Property Association — are lobbying at the Capitol this week to stop a bill that would allow cities and counties to force below-market rate housing in new rental developments.
AB 2502 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, is on the Assembly floor. A vote is expected this week.
The bill would overturn the Palmer v. Los Angeles court decision, which concluded that requiring a percentage of affordable units, or inclusionary housing, in… Read More
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