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CAA members wanting to prevent rent control from taking hold in San Diego County are urged to visit a new website — ProtectOurHousing.com.
The website comes from National City Residents for Fair & Equitable Housing, the campaign fighting the rent control initiative on National City’s Nov. 6 ballot. The California Apartment Association spearheaded the creation of the campaign.
“Measure W is a poorly written ballot measure that jeopardizes the future of National City, the website says. “The flawed Measure W will reduce the number of available rental units in National City and result in the deterioration of the homes that… Read More
Tagged: Just Cause EvictionRent Control
Election officials will determine by mid-October whether tenant activists collected enough valid voter signatures to place a rent control initiative before Sacramento city voters in 2020.
Beginning in March, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and the Service Employees International Union used paid signature gatherers, volunteers, and their own staff to circulate a petition to place rent control before city voters.
Although they missed the deadline to place the initiative on this November’s ballot, they kept collecting signatures in hopes of qualifying their measure for the next general election, now a year and a half away.
Menlo Park is conducting public outreach on a proposal that would bring a form of rent control to the city.
Under a plan pitched by the Menlo Park Housing Commission, rental property owners would be forced to pay relocation payments triggered by a “significant rent increase” or a “landlord-caused termination.”
Such requirements would create a form of rent control and just-cause eviction in Menlo Park, respectively.
“Not only is this proposal a major hindrance to landlords and a dangerous step towards rent control, but it deviates entirely from the direction the City Council advised upon in January of 2017,” said… Read More
The passage of Proposition 10 could invite radical activists to circumvent elected leaders and pursue extreme rent control measures through the initiative process.
That’s the takeaway from a news release issued this week by the No on Prop 10 campaign.
Proponents of Prop 10, a measure on the Nov. 6 statewide ballot that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, argue the measure would simply give city and county officials more freedom to pass rent control policies.
In reality, it would transfer power to local activists seeking to restrict new development, even if it hurts tenants and homeowners, say local… Read More
Tagged: Costa-HawkinsProposition 10
During a special housing workshop held on Sept. 4, competing proposals were announced by Sacramento Mayor Steinberg and three members of the City Council.
As expected, Mayor Darrell Steinberg presented the framework of his plan to increase housing supply and provide rent relief. The proposal includes rent control that limits annual rent increases to 5 percent, but sunsets after three years. The temporary rent cap would exempt units built prior to 1999 and any units owned by property owners with five or fewer units. If the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act remains in place after the November election, Steinberg’s proposal would… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Sacramento Valley
The Palo Alto City Council on Monday made clear, once again, that rent control and “just cause” eviction policies would fail to solve the region’s housing shortage.
At the Sept. 10 meeting, the council held firm on its position to reject rent and eviction controls as they did in October 2017.
Councilmen Adrian Fine, Greg Tanaka, Greg Scharff and Cory Wolbach rejected a motion by the City Council’s no-growth faction to explore “a full range of renter protections” that specifically include “just cause” eviction policies and rent stabilization — aka rent control.
Instead, on a 7-1 vote, the council favored… Read More
The first pair of TV and digital advertisements opposing Proposition 10 have arrived.
Californians for Responsible Housing today released two, 30-second spots opposing Prop 10, the November ballot measure that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and bring extreme forms of rent control back to California.
The ads, accessible here and at the bottom of this article, feature affordable housing experts who say of that Prop. 10 “makes a bad problem worse” and does “the opposite of what it promises.”
Without Costa-Hawkins, California cities and counties could once again adopt extreme forms of rent control, including the imposition of… Read More
Tagged: Costa-HawkinsProposition 10
The California Apartment Association is exploring its options after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to establish a temporary rent control measure for unincorporated areas of the county.
Based on Tuesday’s 4-1 vote, county officials will return in 60 days with an ordinance that includes:
A maximum rent increase amount of 3 percent annually for rental properties in the county’s unincorporated areas, except for those properties that are statutorily exempt from rent control.
A term of six months from the date of adoption with options to extend the interim ordinance as necessary.
A base rent using rent levels… Read More
In a study released this week, a UC Berkeley economist warns that repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act would worsen the state’s housing shortage.
The paper, authored by Kenneth T. Rosen and available here, focuses on the potential impacts of Proposition 10, a Nov. 6 ballot measure that would overturn 1995’s Costa-Hawkins Act.
Without Costa-Hawkins, California cities and counties could once again adopt extreme forms of rent control, including the imposition of rent caps on new apartments and single-family homes. Such moves would create a major disincentive for the development of much needed housing.
“The last thing California needs is… Read More
The California Apartment Association is mobilizing its members and coalition partners to help stop a temporary rent control measure from coming to unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will decide whether to pursue a temporary 3 percent rent cap for areas of the county that fall outside city jurisdictions. Click here to read the motion by Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Hilda L. Solis and here to see Tuesday’s agenda.