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The California Apartment Association this week published compliance materials to help housing providers navigate San Jose’s new rent-freeze ordinance.
On Feb. 2, the San Jose City Council unanimously prohibited rent increases for residents in rent-controlled apartments who have experienced COVID-related financial hardships. The ordinance will run through June 30 unless extended.
To qualify for the rent freeze, these residents must give their landlords a declaration of COVID-19 related financial distress. CAA members will find links to the proper forms for the declarations in the association’s newly updated Industry Insight: City of San Jose Moratorium on Evictions & Rent Increases.
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A judge last week ruled that a local rent control initiative belongs on the Burbank city ballot, even though the city’s clerk disqualified the measure just two months ago.
In June, Burbank City Clerk Zizette Mullins rejected the petition because it lacked some legally required wording. Price-control advocates, who had submitted the required number of signatures to qualify the measure, responded with a legal challenge. On Friday, L.A. Superior Court Judge Mary H. Strobel ruled in their favor.
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California’s Secretary of State’s Office has assigned a proposition number to the extreme rent control measure slated for the Nov. 3 statewide ballot: Proposition 21.
The measure attacks California’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and would welcome back the extreme forms of rent control that proliferated in California in the 1970s and make California’s housing crisis even worse.
Anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein is bankrolling the campaign to pass the measure, using funds from the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation, of which he is president.
Until now, Weinstein’s radical rent control measure has often been referred to as Proposition 10 2.0 for its… Read More
There’s no turning back now.
Thursday was the deadline for Michael Weinstein to withdraw his radical rent control measure from California’s statewide ballot.
Michael Weinstein is using dollars from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to bankroll an extreme rent control measure going before California voters this fall. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
He did not.
A campaign committee created by the California Apartment Association today unveiled a website to help defeat a radical rent control measure headed for November’s statewide ballot.
The website, Caforresponsiblehousing.org, explains why the extreme rent control measure, nicknamed Prop 10 2.0, is bad for California. It also offers a form that rental property owners can fill out to join the opposition.
“There are no protections for renters, seniors, veterans or the disabled, and it has no provision to reduce rents,” says the website, which comes from Californians for Responsible Housing. “For Californians losing jobs and both renters and homeowners who are… Read More
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Many members have emailed CAA’s Landlord Helpline wondering where to find the 60 Day Notice of Rent Increase.
This form has been discontinued due to a change in California law.
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The State Building and Construction Trades Council of
California this week announced its opposition to Michael Weinstein’s radical
rent control measure.
The union’s announcement came Monday just hours before the
Secretary of State’s Office confirmed that Weinstein’s measure had qualified
for November’s ballot.
The anti-housing crusader’s measure would repeal significant
portions of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and welcome back the extreme
forms of rent control that proliferated in California in the 1970s.
The State Building and Construction Trades Council of
California contends that Weinstein’s initiative will undermine the newly
enacted Tenant Protection Act of 2019.
“Californians are suffering from… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has introduced a new, more logical system for numbering all its forms.
The association’s more than 270 forms are now numbered to correspond with the order in which they are used. For example, the first form number, CA-001, is for the application to rent – the first form used in the tenancy. A 30-day termination notice, meanwhile, has a much higher number, CA-235, because it’s at the end of tenancy process.
For a chart showing all of CAA’s forms, including form name, new number and old number, click here.
If you still want to search for forms using the old… Read More
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In
the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the Long Beach City Council voted 6-3 to
draft a tenant relocation ordinance that will bring a form of rent and eviction
controls to the city.
CAA
remains opposed to the forthcoming ordinance, which is expected to require
landlords with buildings of four units or more to pay relocation assistance
when tenants receive certain types of termination notices. Buildings with four
units would be exempt only when the owner lives in the building.
The Long Beach City Council on
Tuesday will consider adopting thinly veiled forms of rent and eviction
controls.
Under the proposals, landlords would
have to pay relocation assistance to tenants who receive certain termination
notices and when tenants decide to move amid rent increases of 10 percent or
more.
Penalizing landlords for rent increases beyond a specified threshold is a method for capping rents, while forcing relocation payments after certain termination notices controls evictions.