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A bill that would cap annual rent increases for much of California’s multifamily housing stock now includes significant amendments secured by the California Apartment Association.
The amendments to AB 1482, among other things, would prevent local governments from making the bill’s rent cap any more restrictive. Moreover, the revisions would improve the legislation’s vacancy decontrol and “just cause” for eviction provisions, while shielding new buildings from the cap for five additional years.
The changes follow weeks of around-the-clock negotiations with the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom and Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins and were announced last week after the bill advanced from the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill, AB 1482 by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco,… Read More
Lawmakers will decide next week whether a statewide rent control and “just cause” eviction bill will move forward this year.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday, Aug. 30, will elect to either move Assembly Bill 1482 to the Senate Floor or leave it on suspense file for the remainder of 2019.
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The Sacramento City Council on Tuesday approved a rent control and “just cause” eviction ordinance that will affect about 44,000 multifamily rental units in the city.
The ordinance, accessible here, only applies to multifamily units built before February 1995, as well as downtown single-room residential hotels and mobile home rentals.
Single-family and condo units are exempt, as are units owned, operated or subsidized by a government entity.
In response to a CAA-led referendum, the El Cerrito City Council on Wednesday night repealed its “just cause” for eviction ordinance, a move that will prevent a costly election and keep a destructive housing policy off the books.
The decision came on a 4-1 vote, with Mayor
Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto dissenting.
The council initially passed the just cause
eviction law in May on a 3-2 vote. CAA immediately sponsored a referendum to
overturn the decision and collected nearly 2,000 signatures from El Cerrito registered
voters to do so.
It is commonly known that just cause makes it more difficult to evict… Read More
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A bill that would impose rent control and “just cause” eviction policies statewide won passage Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The legislation advanced on a 6-1 vote with one abstention. It now heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee, its last stop before the Senate floor.
The bill would cap annual rent increases at 7% plus the consumer price index — the same formula adopted earlier this year in Oregon. The bill would apply to nearly all of California’s rental housing stock, including apartments and some single-family homes, and it would apply in jurisdictions where voters and local elected leaders… Read More
A bill that would bring statewide rent control to California
now also threatens to impose “just cause” for eviction policies.
Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, incorporated
eviction controls into Assembly Bill 1482 this past Friday.
Assemlyman David Chiu
The move effectively resuscitates AB 1481, a “just cause” bill that died on the Assembly floor.
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The Chico City Council on Tuesday, July 2, will consider an ordinance
that would place restrictions on tenancy terminations and require owners to pay
relocation expenses.
The California Apartment Association opposes the so-called “just cause” ordinance and urges its members to contact the mayor and council members to voice their opposition and support a proposed housing conference.
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A coalition led by CAA — including
local businesses, the real estate sector, homeowners and other community
members – has qualified a referendum on El Cerrito’s “just cause” for eviction
ordinance.
To qualify the referendum, petitioners needed to submit 1,631 valid voter signatures to El Cerrito’s city clerk. On Thursday, the Contra County registrar of voters confirmed the success of that effort, counting 1,993 valid signatures.
A grassroots campaign led by the California Apartment Association has stopped a “just cause” eviction policy, a rent moratorium, and an unreasonable new trigger for mediation from coming to Concord.
A referendum filed with the support of the California Apartment Association, Contra Costa, will prevent El Cerrito’s “just cause” for eviction ordinance from taking effect next week.
Working with hundreds of local property owners, the business community, real estate leaders and concerned citizens, CAA submitted a petition on behalf of local residents with at least 2,159 signatures to El Cerrito’s city clerk, considerably more than the 1,631 valid voter signatures needed to qualify the referendum.
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