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An appellate court has ordered the city of Sacramento to place a local rent control measure on the Nov. 3 ballot, overturning a lower court ruling from two weeks ago.
The California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District on Wednesday ruled in favor of initiative proponent Michelle Pariset and against the city of Sacramento and the Sacramento County Superior Court.
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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Several of California’s large metro newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News. the L.A. Daily News, and the Orange County Register, took a stand last week against Proposition 21, the radical rent control measure on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot.
Financed by Michael Weinstein and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the proposition threatens to bring back the extreme forms of rent control that proliferated in the 1970s.
On Thursday, Aug. 6, the Southern California News Group, which includes the Orange County Register, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Los Angeles Daily News and several other papers, urged readers to vote no on the measure.… Read More
Two of California’s leading senior citizen organizations announced this week their opposition to Proposition 21, the extreme rent control measure on November’s statewide ballot.
The Congress of California Seniors and the California Seniors Advocates League say Proposition 21 would make it more difficult for seniors to find affordable housing. The proposition would cause this by slowing the construction of new projects and reducing the number of properties on the market to rent. They also pointed to a report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office that said Proposition 21would lower property values.
“Prop 21 provides no protections for seniors and would hurt… Read More
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Threats to the rental housing industry continue to mount in California.
As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers, state lawmakers have yet to provide financial relief to either tenants or property owners. Without such assistance, rent is sure to go unpaid for months on end, triggering a wave of foreclosures and the disappearance of much-needed rental homes.
Meanwhile, with record turnout expected in November’s election, candidates unfriendly to the rental housing and apartment business could dominate the state Legislature unchecked, while taking control of city councils and county boards across California, resulting in even more policies that threaten your investments and housing… Read More
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Proposition 21, the November ballot measure that would return extreme, 1970s-style rent control to California, could result in “a potential reduction in state and local revenues in the high tens of millions of dollars per year over time,” says the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
In a recently released report on the measure, the Legislative Analyst’s Office said “some landlords would sell their rental housing to new owners who would live there,” which would result in less affordable housing available to the state’s renters.
The office further noted that, if Proposition 21 were to become law “the value of rental housing… Read More
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A bill opposed by the California Apartment Association would invite $20,000 fines against landlords for even minor violations of the state’s new rent cap and “just cause” for eviction law.
The bill, SB 1190 by Sen. Maria Durazo, D-Los Angeles, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last week on a 5-1 vote with three abstentions. The legislation now heads to the Appropriations Committee.
Sen. Maria Elena Durazo
The bill would create a penalty system for AB 1482, the intensely negotiated bill that became the Tenant Protection Act of 2019.
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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected several items that posed threats to California’s rental housing industry, including a move that would have violated the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
On a 7-6 vote, the council:
Rejected an extension of the city’s freeze on rent increases to property shielded from local rent control laws under Costa-Hawkins. The city attorney warned the council that such an action would violate state law. The council also voted against extending the rent freeze to properties covered under Assembly Bill 1482, the statewide rent cap law that went into effect Jan. 1.
Rejected an attempt… Read More
At a “state of housing” event hosted by the California Apartment Association last week, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg doubled down on his opposition to placing a rent control and “just cause” eviction measure on the city ballot.
Steinberg also said that AB 1482, the statewide rent cap legislation that took effect Jan. 1, presents a thoughtful approach to preventing price gouging and renter displacement.
The mayor was the guest speaker at a CAA issue-briefing breakfast March 6 for a small group of rental owners, property management executives and multifamily developers.
Rental owners and property managers in the city of
Sacramento are focused on complying with AB 1482 as well as the Tenant
Protection and Relief Act passed by the Sacramento City Council. However, they
should not forget about the local rent control and “just cause” initiative
that already qualified for the ballot in 2020.
In October 2018, the registrar of voters certified that a coalition of tenant and labor activists, including ACCE and SEIU, had submitted enough signatures for the initiative to be placed on a future ballot. The coalition intended for the initiative to appear on the November 2018… Read More