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A newly drafted ordinance intended to thwart tenant harassment in Los Angeles should also protect ethical landlords from being unjustly targeted, said Fred Sutton, CAA’s senior vice president of public affairs.
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A second federal judge has challenged the CDC’s nationwide eviction moratorium, but the ruling won’t change anything about California’s COVID-19 eviction restrictions.
On March 10, a federal judge in Cleveland concluded that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority by imposing its nationwide eviction ban. In February, a federal judge in Texas also found that the CDC lacked the power to prohibit evictions, saying only states and local governments have such authority.
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Thanks to the efforts of the California Apartment Association, multifamily operators in the city of Los Angeles can delay paying this year’s steep increase in waste-hauling charges for several months.
This year’s ill-timed fee hike – 6.15% — came amid a pandemic that has left many city landlords unable to collect rent for nearly a year.
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Los Angeles County this month will begin holding a series of stakeholder meetings where rental property owners can discuss the impacts of the county’s eviction moratorium on their rental business.
The moratorium applies to most cities in the county, although it excludes the city of Los Angeles.
The first meeting runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon Thursday, Feb. 25, and will include updates on the following:
County’s eviction moratorium
COVID renter protections
Small business COVID relief
Pending mortgage relief
Rent relief program
Officials also want to hear from rental housing providers.
“Although there are several items they will be discussing,… Read More
Tagged: COVID-19Evictions Los Angeles
After hearing from members of the California Apartment Association, the Downey City Council this week unanimously rejected a local rent control proposal.
Earlier this week, local rental housing providers, spearheaded by CAA, emailed City Council members in the Los Angeles suburb and urged them to reject local rent control.
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The city of Los Angeles wants its waste haulers to reconsider the timing of a fee increase on rental property owners and other customers.
The city’s waste haulers have planned a 6.15% rate hike for 2021. Since 2017, rental property owners have been unable to negotiate and choose their waste-hauling services.
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Protections against price gouging, including rent increases over 10%, have been extended until the end of 2021 in several counties ravaged by wildfires in recent years.
The extended protections apply to the counties of Los Angeles, Butte, Mendicino, Napa, Ventura and Sonoma, which saw fires between 2017 and 2019.
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The city of Los Angeles’ COVID-19 eviction moratorium violates the U.S. Constitution and puts landlords at risk of foreclosure and bankruptcy, according to a brief filed by the California Apartment Association.
The moratorium shields tenants from eviction for nonpayment of rent for two years, regardless of whether they can provide evidence of financial hardship tied to COVID-19.
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The California Apartment Association is working to protect ethical landlords from being unfairly punished under separate “anti-harassment” ordinances moving forward in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The Los Angeles proposal aims to prevent landlords from taking a variety of steps considered by the city to be harassment, such as threatening to report a tenant to immigration authorities, refusing to accept lawful rent payments from a tenant, or retaliating against a renter for participating in a tenants union. Already, a robust state law protects tenants from harassment, and CAA is working to ensure that no ordinance can be misused for frivolous… Read More
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The Los Angeles City Council this week postponed a decision that could nearly double the city’s annual apartment inspection fee.
The council had been scheduled to vote on the proposed fee increase Wednesday.
The delay came after CAA recently issued a letter outlining its opposition to the proposed fee hike. Among other things, the letter pointed to the poor timing of raising fees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The city agreed to revisit the matter at an undetermined date. At issue is whether the council should authorize the Housing Department to raise the code enforcement fee from $43.32 to $81.59 per… Read More
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