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Members of the California Apartment Association from throughout the state converged on Sacramento on Wednesday to learn about this year’s rental housing-related legislation and engage in a series of face-to-face meetings with lawmakers.
CAA’s Legislative Conference began at the Sacramento Convention Center, where the association’s public affairs team reviewed key bills for 2017, including CAA’s own solutions to help solve California’s ongoing housing crisis. By increasing the state’s housing stock, CAA’s housing-production bills would help workers and their families live closer to jobs and schools. With more housing on the market, economic forces would help moderate rent prices and… Read More
The California Apartment Association has identified nine top-priority bills for the rental housing industry in the 2015 legislative session.
This coming Tuesday, attendees of CAA’s Legislative Conference will learn more about the proposals below, and in the afternoon, discuss them with lawmakers during a visit to the Capitol.
POSITIVE BILLS
1. Airbnb, short-term vacation rentals; warns tenants of possible lease violation
SB 761 by Sen. Isadore Hall, D-Los Angeles
This bill is sponsored by the California Apartment Association and would require short-term vacation rental websites such as Airbnb to provide disclosures to prospective tenants. The past few years have… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has confirmed that Assembly Republican Leader Kristin Olsen will speak at CAA’s Legislative Conference.
Olsen, who represents the 12th Assembly District in the Central Valley, is the first mother of school-aged children to lead either a Republican or Democratic caucus in the California Legislature, according to her website.
The lawmaker, first elected to the Assembly in 2010, became chief Republican whip in her first term. In 2012, the Regional Council of Rural Counties named her Legislator of the Year.
Besides hearing from Olsen, Legislative Conference attendees will join their industry peers, head to the Capitol and… Read More
Before throngs of rental housing professionals headed to the state Capitol, the Capitol’s top elected official headed to them.
For more than 30 minutes Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown captivated a crowd at the Sacramento Convention Center, telling stories about his wide-ranging political history, offering observations about current challenges in California government and looking ahead to a possible fourth term as governor.
Brown served as keynote speaker at the California Apartment Association’s annual Legislative Conference. He and Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim, delivered talks that primed the crowd for an afternoon of meetings with legislators on bills important to the rental housing… Read More
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Peruse the dozens of pictures from the California Apartment Association’s 2013 Legislative Conference in Sacramento. Photos by Bob Knapik.
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Rental housing professionals and vendors gathered with legislators — and posed for a few pictures — during Feb. 13’s Legislative Conference at the Sheraton in downtown Sacramento.
Smiling for the camera in this shot, from left: Dan McCoy, vice president operations, GSF Properties, Inc., David Jackson, district sales manager, WASH Multifamily Laundry Services;
Assemblyman Henry T. Perea, 31st District; Robyn Cue, regional marketing coordinator, Winn Residential; Rosemary Lynch, executive vice president, Buckingham Property Management; and Stephanie Babb, regional director of CAA Greater Fresno.
For a gallery of more photos from the conference, click here.
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By MIKE NEMETH
While Proposition 30 will slow the furious pace of budget cuts, California lawmakers won’t throw away the chopping block, a lawmaker projected earlier this month.
Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, said the state will continue to rein in spending, albeit with less urgency. California voters approved Prop. 30 in November, raising the state’s sales tax by a quarter cent on the dollar. It also boosted income taxes for those earning more than a quarter-million dollars per year.
“If it weren’t for the proposition passing, we’d be having a very different conversation this morning about the state of our… Read More
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