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The Mountain View City Council has approved what’s been called a “right to a lease” ordinance.
Approved on a 6-1 vote Tuesday, the ordinance is modeled closely after a requirement in Palo Alto that rental owners offer residents the option of a 12-month lease.
The Mountain View council believes that guaranteeing tenants the right to a fixed-term lease will provide stability for both renters and rental owners.
The ordinance, which applies to rental properties with three units or more, requires that an owner/operator offer a 12-month lease, and if a tenant declines, that the owner get the rejection in writing.… Read More
This holiday season, families at Summerset Village Apartments in Fresno have found themselves without heat and hot water.
The crisis, which began last month, stems from problems with a gas line and is in no way the fault of the tenants. Gas-line repairs may take more than three weeks to complete.
We at the California Apartment Association strongly encourage you to step forward and help these residents. At CAA Greater Fresno, we are contributing at least $2,000 toward this effort. Please join us.
To provide financial assistance specifically for residents at Summerset, please visit the Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries donation… Read More
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In response to laws taking effect in January 2016, in addition to member requests, the California Apartment Association has published 13 new rental forms and has updated many of its existing forms. Among the new forms are disclosures for pesticide application and forms to cover tenants with assistive animals.
The pesticide-notification forms were prompted by new requirements that landlords and apartment complex employees who apply pesticides on a rental property must first notify their tenants. Click here for the disclosure forms and here to read more about the pesticide-notification law.
Moreover, to provide owners with a process for handling assistive-animal… Read More
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The California Apartment Association’s Whitney Benzian appeared on television Monday to discuss CAA San Diego’s philanthropic efforts to end homelessness in the city.
Benzian, executive director of CAA’s San Diego division, appeared on KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego, along with Kris Michel, CEO of the Downtown San Diego Partnership.
CAA’s members have donated about $18,000 to the Partnership’s Make Change Count program to end homelessness.
The program allows the public to make donations at collection boxes that resemble red parking meters along curbs in San Diego.
KUSI News – San Diego, CA
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CAA helps fight homelessness in downtown… Read More
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The California Apartment Association now has forms and an instruction sheet available to its members for complying with a pesticide-notification law taking effect Jan. 1, 2016.
Under the new regulations, landlords and apartment complex employees who apply pesticides on a rental property must first notify their tenants. Click here for the forms. Note, you’ll need to sign in to access this material.
Since 1984, California law has required specific notification requirements of pest control companies when they apply pesticides at residential properties. SB 328 by Sen. Ben Hueso, D-Logan Heights, extends these requirements to landlords, their employees and agents when… Read More
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CAA’s Whitney Benzian recently discussed San Diego’s downtown rental market with Smarter San Diego TV.
While local folks can watch it at 11 a.m. Sunday on Channel 4 San Diego, everyone can catch the interview now via the YouTube clip below.
The roughly nine-minute clip shows Benzian, executive director of CAA’s San Diego division, speaking with Nicole Hazelton, owner of Hazelton and Associates, and Smarter San Diego’s host, Derrick Evens.
Among other things, Benzian talks about the beginning of construction on Ballpark Village across from Petco Park.
“It’s the next big building downtown in the East Village,” he says, adding… Read More
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HIF is one of San Mateo County’s “Housing Heroes” after being nominated by the California Apartment Association.
San Mateo County recognized the Housing Industry Foundation on Oct. 22 during a ceremony at the Redwood Shores Library in Redwood City.
“Over the past three years, HIF, through its Emergency Housing Grant program, has served 1,437 families throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties who were homeless or
at risk of homelessness, totaling over one million dollars in grant funding,” says a nomination form submitted by CAA’s Tri-County Division.
HIF also contributed nearly $440,000 in housing-assistance funds and completed $355,000 in special… Read More
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The Alameda City Council on Wednesday night approved a temporary freeze on rent increases in excess of 8 percent.
The moratorium, which also includes just-cause for eviction, is scheduled to last 65 days. Moreover, the 8 percent cap applies cumalitively over 12 months, meaning that if a property owner gave an increase of 5 percent four months ago, the owner is limited to a 3 percent increase now. See the ordinace for more details.
Dozens of CAA members attended the meeting, helping to keep the moratorium temporary. Tenant groups were seeking permanent rent control.
The meeting at one point turned… Read More
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The Richmond City Council — the first to approve rent control in California in more than three decades — has rescinded the policy in response to a signature-gathering effort spearheaded by the California Apartment Association.
The council’s unanimous vote Tuesday night came after Contra Costa County’s Elections Division certified more than 5,000 signatures collected during the CAA-led petition drive.
“We believed the council had rushed to judgment on a policy that would bring long-lasting, negative consequences for the city’s housing stock and financial stability,” said Tom Bannon, CAA’s chief executive officer. “CAA quickly launched the referendum push so that… Read More
At the CAA Annual Membership Meeting, President Mike Bissell announced the results of the 2016 California Apartment Association Board of Directors’ election.
Bissell welcomed newly elected and returning directors to the board during the yearly membership meeting Thursday, Oct. 29. Voting for the 2016 CAA Board of Directors closed Oct. 19.
In accordance with the CAA bylaws, directors serve a term of three years. Newly elected directors begin their terms Jan. 1.
2016 newly elected members of the CAA Board of Directors, representing specific membership categories, are as follows:
Independent Rental Owner Membership Classification
Michael Kraszulyak, Savvy Properties, LLP, Berkeley… Read More
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