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The California Apartment Association has stopped a pair of bills that would have limited the ability of landlords to terminate tenancies and made it more difficult to sell rental properties.
CAA learned Thursday that neither bill will get a hearing when the Legislature returns from its summer recess on Monday.
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Amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday once again closed indoor fitness centers — including those in apartment communities — in many parts of California.
These closures apply to counties that have appeared on the County Monitoring List for three consecutive days. A list of those counties can be found about halfway down this page.
In impacted counties, fitness centers must be shut down unless they can be modified to operate outside.
For more information about COVID-19 and its impacts on the rental housing business, visit CAA’s COVID-19 resources page or its page about reopening efforts.
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If you’re a Los Angeles landlord whose tenants can’t pay the rent because of COVID-19, you may want to refer them to the city.
The L.A. City Council has approved a $100 million rent relief fund to help cover the rent of lower-income tenants who’ve been financially hurt by the virus.
To qualify for a grant, a tenant must earn 80% of the area median income or less and be able to document an inability to pay the rent because of coronavirus.
Only tenants can apply for the subsidies, not landlords. And renters must act quickly. The city will only… Read More
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Tom Bannon
In CAA’s sixth podcast, Tom Bannon, CAA’s chief executive officer, discusses the many problems with Proposition 21 — including its impact on small-scale landlords — and ways the rental housing industry can help defeat the proposal in November’s election.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic will remain in place at least into early fall.
Last week, Newsom extended the order through Sept. 30. It had been set to expire July 28.
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Joshua Howard
In the fifth edition of the CAA Podcast, Debra Carlton, CAA’s executive vice president of state public affairs, and Joshua Howard, the association’s executive vice president of local public affairs, discuss the many problems with AB 1436, which would force landlords to defer rents for possibly years on end for tenants who’ve been unable — or unwilling — to pay for housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A pair of landlords have sued the California Judicial Council over its emergency rule halting nearly all evictions in the state.
The council’s rule, made during an emergency meeting in April, was in response to the financial hardships that many tenants faced due to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Legislation unveiled in the California Senate this week would create a voluntary tax credit program to help landlords recoup rent that’s gone unpaid during the COVID-19 crisis.
To qualify for the credits, a rental owner would need to sign an agreement, pledging to defer rent that’s gone unpaid due to the coronavirus and not to evict the tenant for nonpayment. The tenant also would need to sign the pact.
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The California Apartment Association has filed letters urging a state appellate court to accept two cases that directly challenge the Judicial Council’s rules prohibiting nearly all evictions.
Both cases involve tenants who did not pay rent well before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A bill introduced in the California Legislature this week would force landlords to defer rents for possibly years on end for tenants who’ve been unable — or unwilling — to pay for housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Assemlyman David Chiu
The rent-deferral period under AB 1436 by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, would last until 15 months after a state or local state of emergency is lifted.
“We know that in many cases local governments don’t lift their emergency orders for years,” said Debra Carlton, the California Apartment Association’s executive vice president for state public affairs. “That means an owner… Read More
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