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Tenant activists have again failed to collect enough signatures to place a rent control measure before voters in the city of Santa Ana.
On Monday, Tenants United Santa Ana turned in 2,400 signatures at City Hall — far shy of the 10,909 valid voter signatures required to qualify the initiative for the Nov. 3 ballot.
Rent control proponents blamed the failure on the coronavirus, saying it prevented petitioners from going door-to-door, the Orange County Register reported.
“Time and time again, it’s abundantly clear that voters do not believe rent control will solve the housing shortage,” said Victor Cao, CAA’s vice… Read More
The California Apartment Association last week joined the city of Sacramento in its lawsuit to keep a draconian rent control initiative off the November 2020 ballot.
Like the city, CAA opposes the far-reaching rent control measure, which traces back to 2018, when local tenant activists tried to qualify a rent control initiative for November of that year. Although rent control proponents failed to collect enough signatures for the fall, they kept circulating their petition and ultimately qualified the initiative for the November 2020 election.
The ballot arguments against Proposition 21 in the Nov. 3 voter guide will come from Californians for Responsible Housing, a campaign committee created by the California Apartment Association.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla
Secretary of State Alex Padilla selected the arguments from Californians for Responsible Housing last week, making it the official campaign of record against the extreme rent control proposition.
November’s election marks a second housing-policy showdown between Californians for Responsible Housing and anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein.
Two years ago, Weinstein used his AIDS Healthcare Foundation to bankroll a radical rent control measure that appeared on the November ballot… Read More
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The Concord City Council on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to its rental housing laws, including the rolling back of the city’s rent mediation program and new requirements surrounding fixed-term leases and relocation assistance.
The changes are the culmination of a multi-year review of the city’s landlord-tenant policies. They also follow repeated efforts by Concord tenant advocacy groups to bring rent control and “just cause” eviction policies to the city — efforts the California Apartment Association continues to thwart.
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California’s Secretary of State’s Office has assigned a proposition number to the extreme rent control measure slated for the Nov. 3 statewide ballot: Proposition 21.
The measure attacks California’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and would welcome back the extreme forms of rent control that proliferated in California in the 1970s and make California’s housing crisis even worse.
Anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein is bankrolling the campaign to pass the measure, using funds from the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation, of which he is president.
Until now, Weinstein’s radical rent control measure has often been referred to as Proposition 10 2.0 for its… Read More
There’s no turning back now.
Thursday was the deadline for Michael Weinstein to withdraw his radical rent control measure from California’s statewide ballot.
Michael Weinstein is using dollars from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to bankroll an extreme rent control measure going before California voters this fall. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
He did not.
The city of Sacramento has filed a lawsuit in hopes of keeping a rent control initiative off November’s ballot and holding a tenant activist to her pledge to drop the measure.
Like the city, the California Apartment Association opposes the initiative in question. The measure traces back to 2018, when tenant activists attempted to qualify a rent control initiative for the fall election but failed to collect enough signatures by the deadline. They kept circulating their petition, though, and ultimately qualified the initiative for a future ballot, shifting their attention to 2020.
A campaign committee created by the California Apartment Association today unveiled a website to help defeat a radical rent control measure headed for November’s statewide ballot.
The website, Caforresponsiblehousing.org, explains why the extreme rent control measure, nicknamed Prop 10 2.0, is bad for California. It also offers a form that rental property owners can fill out to join the opposition.
“There are no protections for renters, seniors, veterans or the disabled, and it has no provision to reduce rents,” says the website, which comes from Californians for Responsible Housing. “For Californians losing jobs and both renters and homeowners who are… Read More
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The Culver City Council on Thursday took further steps to implement a permanent and strict rent control program.
Despite large opposition and calls for shared solutions, the council decided to proceed with negative price and eviction controls.
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AB 1482, or the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, imposes “just cause” for eviction requirements on many residential rental properties in California. If a tenancy is protected by just cause, AB 1482 prohibits a landlord from terminating the tenancy, without providing a reason that’s permissible under the legislation.
Under AB 1482, an owner’s intent to occupy the unit, including the owner’s spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, is an allowed reason for terminating the tenancy. However, under the law, for a tenancy that starts or renews on or after July 1, 2020, the owner move-in provision must be… Read More
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