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After hearing from dozens of rental housing owners, the Palo Alto City Council on Monday rejected a proposal to bring rent control to the city.
Under an ordinance proposed by three members of the City Council, Palo Alto would institute a cap on rent increases and just-cause eviction policies, while exploring other tools for renters.
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The Glendale City Clerk’s Office has rejected a bid to place rent control before the city’s voters, calling the submitted petition “deficient and invalid” due to a number of problems.
For example, the text of the rent control measure is not included anywhere in the petition, the clerk said. Moreover, in some areas, sections of pages were glued atop other pages, and in some areas, sections were “whited out” and then filled in again.
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The city of Palo Alto on Monday, Oct. 16, will consider studying the possible adoption of a rent control ordinance.
Council members Lydia Kou, Karen Holman and Tom DuBois issued a proposal to study whether Palo Alto should:
Cap the annual rent increase by a certain percentage
Institute a just-cause eviction ordinance
Study other open-ended renter protections
Palo Alto’s high housing costs can be traced to the city’s inability to meet the demand for housing.
An economics professor has concluded that a proposed rent control program in Pacifica could cost the city $2 million each year to implement.
Tom Means, a professor of economics at San Jose State University, shared this conclusion in an analysis of Measure C, the rent control proposal appearing on November’s ballot in Pacifica. Means, who serves on Mountain View’s newly formed Rental Housing Committee, prepared his report for the Coalition for Housing Equality.
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Tenant activists left themselves a dangerously small margin for error in a signature-gathering effort to place a rent control measure before Glendale voters.
The rent control measure pushed by the tenant’s union seeks to cap rent increases at 3 percent annually.
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During a meeting attended by more than 150 members of the rental housing industry, the Daly City City Council last week rejected the idea of rent control and a number of other onerous housing policies.
On a 3-1 vote on Sept. 25, the council also dismissed policies such as just-cause eviction, relocation assistance, mandatory acceptance of Section 8 vouchers and the creation of a rent registry.
At issue was whether to include these policies as part of Daly City’s Assessment of Fair Housing Report (AFH). The report is a comprehensive study on a jurisdiction’s housing barriers, a routine process required… Read More
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The California Apartment Association reacted with skepticism this week to an online poll measuring voter support for rent control.
The poll, which comes from the UC Berkeley Institute for Government Studies, found that a majority of California voters support the policy.
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Pacifica voters on Saturday received a thorough education on the flaws and consequences of the rent control proposal appearing on November’s ballot as Measure C.
Measure C is modeled closely after rent control and eviction control ballot measures rejected by voters last year in San Mateo and Burlingame.
Joshua Howard, senior vice president of the California Apartment Association, took part in Saturday’s panel discussion, as did Pacifica Vice Mayor John Keener and representatives of both No and Yes on Measure C campaigns. The breakfast-time discussion was hosted by the Pacifica-Daly City Democrats Club.
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Despite objections from CAA, the Mountain View Rental Housing Committee on Monday declared Dec. 23, 2016, the effective date for the city’s rent control ordinance, even though the law remained on hold until spring of this year.
In addition to implementing rent control, Measure V rolled back rents charged after the effective date to levels collected in October 2015.
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Landlords who didn’t attend Thursday’s meeting about proposed changes to San Jose’s rent control law will get two more chances to speak out.
In addition to yesterday’s meeting, the San Jose Housing Department has scheduled public meetings on rent control for 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, and 5:45 p.m., Sept. 14, in the City Hall Wing Rooms, 200 E. Santa Clara St.
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