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Although not on the agenda, arguments over rent control dominated the discussion Wednesday at a San Diego City Council committee meeting.
Scores of public speakers – both for and against rent control – appeared before the Smart Growth and Land Use Committee, which includes four City Council members.
The meeting was designed to focus on anti-displacement, Section 8 vouchers and issues surrounding the expiration of San Diego’s affordable housing stock.
That didn’t matter to San Diego Tenants United, a media-savvy but hastily organized tenant-advocacy group that took an aggressive stance in hijacking part of Wednesday’s discussion.
Tenant advocates in Santa Ana have filed preliminary paperwork to place a rent control measure on the November ballot.
The city attorney will have 15 business days to put together a title and summary for the measure. After a public notice is published by the city, the proponents will then have 180 days to gather roughly 12,000 valid signatures to place the initiative on the ballot.
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An effort to place rent control before National City voters this November has entered the signature-gathering phase.
The city attorney for National City recently gave petitioners the green light to begin circulating a petition for a measure titled the National City Rent Control and Community Stabilization Ordinance.
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CAA, City Council partner to adopt balanced housing measures
The City Council in Redwood City on Monday, March 26, unanimously reaffirmed its opposition to rent control and its commitment to balanced housing policy solutions to address the needs of both renters and rental housing providers.
Since May 2016, the City Council, Housing & Human Concerns Commission and local rental housing providers have been working together on ways to address housing affordability issues. In October 2016, the City Council approved the creation of policies to encourage long-term leases, nonbinding mediation and relocation assistance, recognizing that rent control is not a policy… Read More
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The California Apartment Association hired Mallori Spilker as its new government affairs director for the CAA Sacramento Valley division. She joins the public affairs staff in the Sacramento region led by Senior Vice President Jim Lofgren.
“Mallori brings highly desired skills and experience to the position,” Lofgren said. “With the threat of rent control looming in Sacramento, we are very fortunate to have someone of her caliber on our side.”
Before relocating to the Sacramento area, Spilker worked for two years in CAA’s North Bay division, establishing the government affairs and political action programs in Northern Marin and Sonoma counties.
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Owners and managers of rental housing can now make contributions to the campaign to prevent the repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. A statewide ballot measure that would overturn Costa-Hawkins and bring extreme forms of rent control back to California is expected to qualify for the November ballot. Californians for Responsible Housing is accepting campaign contributions to defeat the measure at SaveCostaHawkins.org.
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Five regional industry organizations, including the California Apartment Association, have joined forces to lead opposition against a proposed ballot measure that would bring rent control to the city of Sacramento.
“Rent control is the wrong solution to our shortage of affordable housing in the region,” said Jim Lofgren, CAA senior vice president for the North Valley region. “We need to attract more investment in housing, and rent control only scares it away. It’s counterproductive.”
CAA supports sensible solutions to California’s housing crisis, such as the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act, a state measure on the November 2018 ballot that… Read More
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The Glendale City Council on Tuesday held off on a proposal that would require owners of rental housing to offer leases to prospective tenants.
The council was scheduled to consider a proposed “right to lease” ordinance as an expansion to its just-cause eviction law, which the city passed in 2002.
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Tenant advocates have filed preliminary paperwork to place a rent control measure before voters in the city of Sacramento.
The initiative would amend the city charter to impose inflation-based rent control and “just cause” eviction policies in the capital city.
Under the measure, the rent charged as of Feb. 20, 2018, would serve as the base rent. Maximum annual increases would then be tied to the consumer price index. The measure would also create a nine-member rent control board, require landlords to pay an annual rental housing fee, and establish relocation assistance for displaced tenants.
Over the objections of CAA and its members, the Santa Cruz City Council on Tuesday imposed interim emergency rent control and just-cause eviction ordinances, effective immediately.
Although most attendees objected during public testimony, the council voted to instate a temporary 2 percent cap on rent increases for all apartment buildings built before 1995, with exemptions for condos, townhouses and single-family homes. The council also approved a temporary just-cause ordinance that applies to all housing, including single-family homes and accessory-dwelling units. The only exemption to the just-cause ordinance is for those who own only one rental unit. Landlords with maintenance costs… Read More