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With this month’s deadline for Gov. Jerry Brown to sign and veto bills in the proverbial rear-view mirror, CAA has compiled the following summaries of rental housing-related laws set to take effect Jan. 1, 2016:
Affordable Housing
Community Revitalization Authority
Assembly Bill 2 (D-Alejo)
AB 2 allows specified “disadvantaged” areas of California to create a new entity called a Community Revitalization Investment Authority. The purpose of the CRIA is to improve conditions with the intent to increase employment opportunities, reduce high-crime rates, repair deteriorating and inadequate infrastructure, clean up Brownfields and build affordable housing.
Density Bonuses and Parking Spaces
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Tagged: LegislationLegislative Summary
Responding to claims of large rent increases in Alameda, the City Council recently adopted a stronger mediation program to review rises in rent.
A group of local rental property owners and renters spent many hours working with the city of Alameda to develop a program aimed at balancing the needs associated with managing rental property with the needs of renters.
Despite this collaboration and agreement, the calls for rent control in Alameda continue to grow. CAA remains strongly opposed to rent control and is working with local owners, community leaders, and the city to prevent this policy from being introduced… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Contra Costa
The Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 20, is expected to approve a plan to study whether rent control is a viable option to address Santa Rosa’s housing challenges.
CAA North Coast has been working closely with members, allies, and the city to encourage the Santa Rosa City Council to explore other measures.
CAA strongly opposes rent control and is calling on all rental owners to continue letting the City Council know that rent control is a failed policy.
CAA asks members who cannot attend Tuesday’s meeting to email the mayor and council
By clicking on citycouncil@srcity.org, the below… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control North Bay
Changes to pilot program mark another victory for rental housing in High Desert
Hesperia is launching a more palatable version of its crime-free rental housing program, thanks to the government affairs work of CAA Greater Inland Empire.
The California Apartment Association worked to remove two problematic components from the pilot program, which takes effect in this High Desert city Jan. 1.
The troublesome elements would have forced rental property owners to pay more for the program, while opening them up to potential litigation.
Under the city’s previous plans, property owners faced a fee schedule ranging from $37.50 to $50 per… Read More
The California Apartment Association Greater Inland Empire’s first Moreno Valley town hall reception featured City Councilman Jeff Giba and other city leaders.
The event, held at Cannon Management’s Overlook at Rancho Belago property, provided a unique opportunity for CAA members to meet Giba and key members of city staff, including the assistant fire marshal and economic development director.
Giba shared his goals for Moreno Valley and ways the rental housing industry and city can collaborate to improve the quality of life for residents.
“This was the first time our members met one-on-one with a Moreno Valley policymaker and staff to… Read More
Tagged: News Greater Inland Empire
Landlords and apartment complex employees who apply pesticides on a rental property must notify their tenants, according to a bill signed into law by the governor.
Since 1984, California law has required specific notification requirements of pest control companies when they apply pesticides at residential properties.
Legislation signed into law by Gov. Brown on Sept. 8 extends those tenant-notice requirements to landlords, their employees and agents when they personally apply pesticides, such as over-the-counter aerosol bug sprays and foggers, at rental properties. The law, SB 328 by Sen. Ben Hueso, D-Logan Heights, takes effect Jan. 1, 2016.
Prior to applying… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
On a radio talk show Tuesday, CAA’s Debra Carlton extolled a bill that would provide tax credits to help landlords pay for seismic retrofits.
Carlton, senior vice president of public affairs for the California Apartment Association, discussed Assembly Bill 428 with host Larry Mantle on KPCC’s AirTalk.
AB 428 by Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian has passed the state Legislature and awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.
The legislation would allow a tax credit in an amount equal to 30 percent of the qualified costs paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer for any seismic retrofit construction on a qualified building.
“It’s certainly… Read More
Tagged: Seismic Retrofitting
Landlords must tell tenants of their right to contest a rent increase
Before landlords raise rents in Alameda, they must now tell tenants about an appeal process offered by the city.
This requirement came Sept. 2 as an amendment to the city of Alameda’s rent-review ordinance, which has been in place for a number of years.
City leaders revised the law based on the belief that the review process is not well-known among tenants.
Under the update, a landlord must provide written notice of the appeal process at the same time that he or she provides a tenant notice of… Read More
You’ve likely heard of CAA fighting the spread of rent control at city halls around the Bay Area. Well, the effort to stem rent control is happening in the courts as well.
For the second time in recent months, CAA has gotten involved in a case centered on whether a change of tenancy occurs when parents move out of a rent controlled unit and their children, who never signed the lease because they were minors, stay behind as adults. [Read about the first case]
This is important because a change in tenancy allows for a rent controlled unit to return… Read More
Tagged: CourtsRent Control