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Despite recent amendments, Sen. Mark Leno’s anti-Ellis Act bill remains an attack on landlords’ property rights as it heads to its first Assembly committee Wednesday, June 18. *
Leno promised changes to SB 1439 on May 29 in a last-minute push to resuscitate the legislation, which failed the previous day on the Senate floor. The bill is now scheduled to be heard Wednesday by the Housing and Community Development Committee.
The California Apartment Association vehemently opposes the amended bill, which still would force many rental property owners in San Francisco to wait at least five years before removing their units… Read More
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A bill that threatened to strip landlords of their right to leave the rental housing business failed on the Senate floor Wednesday, May 28, thanks largely to fierce opposition by the California Apartment Association.
SB 1439 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, garnered 18 yes votes but needed 21 to advance from the Senate to the Assembly. While Leno can ask for a new vote through Friday, his chances of resuscitating the bill are meager.
To defeat Leno’s bill, CAA lobbied heavily at the Capitol, launched an educational website for the public and spearheaded a letter-writing campaign that prompted hundreds… Read More
In the next seven days, a major threat to the Ellis Act is expected to either win Senate approval or die on the Senate floor.
We’re counting on you, our members, to help ensure the latter.
Here’s the urgency: Friday, May 30, is the deadline for bills to pass out of their house of origin. Those that do will then go to the other house for consideration.
So any day now, Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, is expected to push for a Senate vote on SB 1439, an assault on property rights that would weaken a landlord’s ability to quit… Read More
The California Apartment Association is calling on its members to help defeat a bill that threatens the Ellis Act and could come to a vote on the Senate floor next week.
The bill, 1439 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, could strip San Francisco landlords of their freedom to leave the rental housing business.
SB 1439 is a direct assault on the Ellis Act, a law passed in 1985 that bars local governments from making property owners stay in the rental housing industry.
Ellis especially protects owners of rental properties in rent controlled cities, where landlords can find themselves operating… Read More
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