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After facing aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction policies in Burlingame has failed passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure R garnered just 33 percent of the vote. Rent control measures also failed in Alameda and San Mateo, although they passed in Mountain View and Richmond.
Voters on Tuesday rejected strict rent control laws in Burlingame, San Mateo and Alameda but approved them in Richmond and Mountain View.
All five measures proposing rent control faced strong opposition from local property owners, homeowners, businesses, real estate groups and the California Apartment Association.
In Burlingame and Alameda, voters rejected rent control by a roughly 2-1 margin. Ballots cast in favor of Burlingame’s Measure R garnered 33 percent of the vote, while yes votes for Alameda’s M1 earned 34 percent. In San Mateo, the rent control measure also failed decidedly, with Measure Q receiving just 39 percent approval.
Political mailers that highlight criticism of rent control as noted by the Legislative Analyst’s Office do not violate the Fair Political Practices Act, a state agency concluded this week.
The state’s Fair Political Practices Commission said it found no evidence of campaign violations, concluding that the mailers appear to be “properly identified as coming from the California Apartment Association Issues Committee.”
Tenant advocates filed a complaint with the FPPC after the CAA Issues Committee published campaign literature detailing the LAO’s conclusion that rent control doesn’t work.
The mailers are intended to inform the electorate of the LAO’s misgivings about rent… Read More
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The campaign against Richmond’s rent control initiative now includes a television spot highlighting the many problems with Measure L, one of several rent control and just-cause eviction measures appearing on the Nov. 8 ballot in Bay Area cities.
The California Apartment Association Issues Committee paid for the political ad, which is now airing in Richmond.
CAA’s Issue Committee also is running TV ads spotlighting serious flaws in the rent control and just-cause eviction measures appearing in Mountain View, San Mateo, Burlingame and Alameda.
Help CAA’s Issues PAC fight rent control. Make checks payable to CAA Issues Committee and mail… Read More
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In the video above, San Mateo City Councilwoman Maureen Freschet expresses concerns about the financial impacts of Measure Q, calling it “dangerous legislation” that would create a rent commission with unlimited regulatory and financial power.
Two members of the San Mateo City Council have signed the primary ballot argument against bringing rent control to the city.
Councilwomen Maureen Freschet and Diane Papan are among the rent control opponents listed on the argument against the San Mateo Community Preservation and Fair Rent Charter Amendment. The charter amendment will appear on the ballot as Measure Q.
“Don’t be fooled into believing… Read More
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Mountain View returned from the brink of approving binding arbitration — a form of rent control — during the City Council’s Tuesday night meeting.
The California Apartment Association played a pivotal role in mobilizing property owners to speak at the meeting and advocate for sensible landlord-tenant measures.
Mountain View had been considering binding arbitration, which allows a third party to decide how much rent can increase — if at all — making it a form of rent control. The city of Alameda formally approved such a policy March 1.
CAA succeeded in fending off this type of rent control in… Read More
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A second Bay Area city is on the verge of approving binding arbitration – basically rent control in disguise.
The Mountain View City Council will take up the proposal at its Tuesday, March 15, meeting. The session starts at 6 p.m. in council chambers, 500 Castro St.
Mountain View’s consideration of binding arbitration comes on the heels of Alameda’s approval of the same policy, which it formally adopted Tuesday, March. 1.
Under this approach to settling rent disputes, a tenant can have a mediator decide how much rent can go up — if at all. This plainly puts a control… Read More
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The Mountain View City Council has approved what’s been called a “right to a lease” ordinance.
Approved on a 6-1 vote Tuesday, the ordinance is modeled closely after a requirement in Palo Alto that rental owners offer residents the option of a 12-month lease.
The Mountain View council believes that guaranteeing tenants the right to a fixed-term lease will provide stability for both renters and rental owners.
The ordinance, which applies to rental properties with three units or more, requires that an owner/operator offer a 12-month lease, and if a tenant declines, that the owner get the rejection in writing.… Read More
The Mountain View City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 1, will hold a special meeting to consider rent regulations.
The hearing, set for 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 500 Castro St., follows a study session last month where council members expressed opposition to rent control, just-cause eviction, and a moratorium on rent increases.
The threat of onerous policies in Mountain View remains, however.
This past Sunday, for example, tenant advocates in Mountain View held a rally calling for rent control.
The City Council, though, continues to work with the community and its local housing providers to find other ways address housing… Read More
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Residents in west Contra Costa County will vote this spring on a parcel tax that could help rescue the financially beleaguered Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo.
Registered voters will receive mail-in ballots sometime over the next two months and must return them by May 6th to be counted. The required threshold is two-thirds vote. The two-thirds is determined by the number of returned mail-in ballots.
The tax, which would cost property owners $0.14 cents per square foot, would be permanent, even if the hospital merges with another medical facility or is purchased.
All residents — including those in multifamily… Read More