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A CAA-sponsored bill clarifying that landlords can prohibit renters from smoking marijuana in apartments passed a key committee this week.
The bill, AB 2300, advanced Tuesday from the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a 10-0 vote. The next stop for the bill is the Assembly floor.
“This is about protecting families that live in close proximity to others,” the author of the bill, Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, said in a statement. “Second-hand smoke can be a real problem, especially for families who live in apartments or other multi-family residences.”
In 2011, the California Apartment Association sponsored, and the state Legislature overwhelmingly… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
Pro-housing bills backed by the California Apartment Association made healthy strides this week in the Legislature.
On Wednesday alone, four housing bills — either sponsored or co-sponsored by CAA — advanced from their respective committees.
The following proposals advanced from the Assembly Local Government Committee to the Appropriations Committee:
AB 2299 (Bloom) 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. Sponsored by CAA.
AB 2501 (Bloom) would make it faster, easier and more economical for developers to obtain… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
More than 1,500 rental housing professionals descended upon the Santa Clara Convention Center this spring for CAA Connect, California’s premier multifamily conference and expo.
The California Apartment Association’s April 5 event featured more than 175 booths with exhibitors covering a wide range of services, from roofing to landscaping to employment staffing.
The expo floor was teeming with activity as soon as the doors opened at 9 a.m.
Meanwhile, seminars got underway in nearby ballrooms. By 4 p.m., CAA had offered 15 classes that covered topics from bedbugs to fair housing issues to social media.
Throughout the day, a number of… Read More
A court brief filed by the California Apartment Association has led a plaintiff to give up her argument that Section 8 recipients are a protected class under California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.
In Morris v. Sacramento Manor, the tenancy was terminated when the owner decided to stop participating in the Section 8 program.
The tenant argued that Section 8 recipients should be considered a new protected class under the Unruh Act’s prohibition against any arbitrary discrimination.
On Feb, 23, 2016, CAA filed a brief in the Appellate Division of the Sacramento Superior Court supporting Sacramento Manor’s right to pull out… Read More
San Jose’s long-standing cap on rent increases will soon get tighter.
On a 6-5 vote, the San Jose City Council early Wednesday approved lowering the maximum annual increase on rent-controlled units from 8 percent to 5 percent. This will affect about 43,000 units, or one-third of the city’s rental housing supply. The changes are expected to be ratified later this year and take effect no later than Jan. 1, 2017.
While not as onerous as the housing department’s proposal to tie rent control to inflation, lowering the price ceiling to 5 percent remains a bad policy change.
“The council found… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
The San Jose City Council on Tuesday is expected to vote on proposed changes to its rent control ordinance that could bring economic instability to renters and property owners while failing to address the underlying causes of rising market rents.
Possibilities include lowering the current 8 percent annual cap on rent increases, a move favored by Mayor Sam Liccardo. On the other hand, the city’s housing department recommends tying allowable rent increases to inflation, using the consumer price index.
The California Apartment Association opposes both options and encourages its members to speak out at next week’s council meeting, scheduled for… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
Once again, the San Mateo City Council has rejected a rent control proposal — this time in the form of an onerous relocation-assistance program.
The City Council’s decision Monday came after three hours of public testimony from local property owners, managers and real estate professionals about the dangers of the proposal.
The relocation-assistance ordinance would have forced rental housing providers to keep rent increases below 10 percent or face paying up to $21,500 for residents to vacate the unit – even after the end of a lease term.
“This proposal takes from one group and gives to another; taking rights… Read More
The California Apartment Association is assembling an article on hoarding issues in rental communities and is seeking insights from property owners and managers.
Have you encountered a hoarder on your property? How did you deal with the situation?
If you are willing to speak with a reporter about the issue for CAA’s Apartment Management magazine, please email Amy Drew Thompson no later than April 19 at info@amydrewthompson.com.
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Tagged: News
Under a bill opposed by CAA, all property owners who regularly rent out a single-family home would have to register the property annually with California’s Department of Business Oversight, a costly and ineffective mandate that would compromise privacy rights of both landlords and tenants.
“This is extremely overreaching at a great cost to the State of California with no clear benefits except to collect and make public the data,” CAA says in its opposition letter to the legislation.
The bill, AB 2282 by Assemblyman Ian Calderon, D-Whittier, is intended to dissuade large-scale buy-to-rent investors from purchasing homes and turning them… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
Rebuffed at city halls in several Northern California cities, tenant advocates are increasingly turning to the November ballot in their push for strict rent control measures.
One week ago, tenant advocates in San Mateo began efforts to qualify a rent control-related ballot measure for the November 2016 election. This filing came just one day after the San Mateo City Council voted 3-2 against rent control and a just-cause eviction policy.
Moreover, the San Mateo filing came just days after tenant advocates in Burlingame and Mountain View filed similar measures, and renter advocate groups in Richmond and Alameda also are seeking… Read More