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Election officials this week confirmed that enough signatures were collected to qualify a referendum on Santa Rosa’s rent control ordinance.
Sonoma County’s registrar of voters counted 9,648 valid signatures, far more than the 8,485 needed for the referendum to qualify.
The registrar first confirmed the success of the signature-gathering effort in mid-October. Later that month, however, the registrar determined that a hand count was needed to certify the results.
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The California Apartment Association has published its Key Findings Report from the 2016 California Housing Forum, an event that brought together diverse thought leaders to help solve the state’s housing crisis.
“Inadequate housing stock threatens California’s economic prosperity and future,” said Tom Bannon, chief executive officer of the California Apartment Association, which organized the Housing Forum. “It is time to finally address the real causes of this crisis in a comprehensive and statewide manner.”
The inaugural Forum,
held in September in Sacramento, assembled a diverse group of stakeholders – legislators, economists, employers, developers, environmentalists and advocacy groups – to discuss… Read More
The California Apartment Association has prepared compliance information on the rent control laws approved by voters in Mountain View and Richmond in the Nov. 8 election. While the laws will likely face legal challenges, it’s important that property owners and managers understand the sweeping changes that voters approved.
Use the links below to access the compliance papers.
Mountain View’s Measure V
Richmond’s Measure L
The Sebastopol City Council on Tuesday will decide whether to extend its temporary rent control ordinance by six months.
If the council approves the extension, all Sebastopol multifamily housing providers with units built before 1995 will face a 3 percent limit on annual rent increases until May 2017.
The California Apartment Association is calling on its members to attend the Dec. 6 meeting. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Sebastopol Youth Annex/Teen Center, 425 Morris St.
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The Concord City Council this week rejected a proposal to temporarily cap rent increases at 3 percent per year.
The urgency measure Tuesday received two yes votes but needed four to pass. The failure of the proposed 45-day rent-increase moratorium came amid a cooldown in the Bay Area’s rental housing market. In Concord, rents have recently dropped for one-bedroom and three-bedroom units.
“I really can’t, in my heart, find the urgency issue citywide,” said Mayor Hoffmeister, as reported in this East Bay Times article.
Concord staff will now look into creating a mediation program to help resolve disputes between tenants… Read More
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If you own property in Mountain View and planned on evicting a problem tenant, put those plans on hold.
On Tuesday morning, the City Council approved an urgency just-cause eviction ordinance — and it took effect immediately.
Despite aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction policies in Mountain View has won passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure V garnered 53 percent of the vote. All told, five Bay Area cities had measures on the Nov. 8 ballot asking voters whether to approve rent control. As in Mountain View, Richmond voters approved the policy, while voters in Alameda, Burlingame and San Mateo rejected it.
Despite aggressive opposition from CAA, a measure to impose rent control and just-cause eviction in Richmond has won passage at the ballot box.
Ballots cast to approve Measure L garnered 64 percent of the vote. Other Bay Area cities with rent control on the Nov. 8 ballot included Alameda, Burlingame, Mountain View and San Mateo.
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.