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The California Apartment
Association this week issued an “Industry Insight” paper to help rental housing
owners comply with a Section 8-related ordinance taking effect Jan. 1 in the
city of Los Angeles.
Effective New Year’s Day, the city’s “source of income protection”
law will require that landlords consider for tenancy all applicants with the
ability to pay for a given unit, including those who would pay their rent using
Section 8.
This ordinance mirrors the provisions in SB 329, a statewide Section
8-related law also taking effect Jan. 1.
Both the L.A. ordinance and SB 329 ban blanket policies against
renting… Read More
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Long Beach City Council
members Tuesday voted to repeal their tenant-relocation ordinance, concluding
that the local measure would be unnecessary once AB 1482 takes effect.
The ordinance will be repealed effective Jan. 1 2020, the same day that the state will begin implementing AB 1482, California’s new statewide rent control and “just cause” eviction law.
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California’s largest businesses, including
those in the rental housing industry, have just a few weeks to begin complying
with the nation’s most sweeping consumer-privacy law.
The California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect Jan. 1 and is intended to give consumers greater insights into data that companies collect about them — and more control over what happens to that data.
The law, which is being compared to the European Union’s privacy laws, mainly targets large companies — those with annual revenues of $25 million or more — as well as firms in the business of collecting and selling personal information.
Although… Read More
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An
urgency “just cause” ordinance that would have placed immediate restrictions on
tenancy terminations has failed to get the required supermajority vote of the
Vallejo City Council.
On
Tuesday, only four of the seven council members voted for the measure, and five
votes are needed to pass any urgency ordinance that takes effect immediately.
Instead,
the City Council voted to leave in place an existing local proclamation of
emergency that caps any rent increases in Vallejo at 10%, but only through Dec.
31, 2019. That’s
because beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the rent cap and “just cause” tenancy
termination restrictions under… Read More
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The Rancho Cordova City Council adopted a temporary no-cause eviction ordinance intended to prevent owners from terminating tenancies before AB 1482 takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
The action was taken despite one council member remarking that the ordinance was “dumb legislation” and “could cause more harm than good.”
Under the emergency ordinance, rental owners may not terminate a tenancy without cause through Dec. 31, 2019. Any notice issued after the ordinance was passed on Nov. 18 without one of of the permissible “at-fault” just causes is invalid. However, notices issued prior to the council meeting are not affected. The… Read More
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An urgency ordinance preventing termination of tenancies
without cause in Sacramento County failed to muster enough votes to pass.
The ordinance was intended to stop rental owners from ending
tenancies in order to avoid rolling back rents or being stuck with below market
rents once a new state law, Assembly Bill 1482, takes effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
Similar ordinances were recently passed in several jurisdictions throughout California, including Los Angeles and Milpitas.
The ordinance was proposed by Supervisor Phil Serna after several residents of Bell Oaks Apartments, with the support of tenant-advocacy organizations, demanded that the Board of Supervisors… Read More
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors will consider an emergency “just cause” ordinance Tuesday, Nov. 5.
To pass, an urgency ordinance requires approval from four of the five board members. The ordinance would immediately impose just-cause restrictions similar to those in AB 1482, the statewide rent control and just-cause eviction law taking effect Jan. 1.
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The Inglewood City Council has decided to make its cap on rent increases even more draconian.
Despite opposition from the California Apartment Association, the council Tuesday voted unanimously to lower the city’s annual cap on rent increases to 3% — two percentage points lower than the 5% interim rent cap adopted earlier this year.
The rent control ordinance green-lighted this week, dubbed the Housing Protection Initiative, is scheduled to sunset in five years.
The City Council still must formalize approval of the ordinance with a second reading expected in 30 days.
High winds and resulting fires and evacuations prompted the governor this past weekend to declare a statewide emergency, a move that’s triggered protections against price gouging, including rent increases over 10% anywhere in California.
The cap applies to both existing and prospective tenancies, meaning a landlord cannot raise the rent on a vacant unit beyond the 10% mark. Further, an owner cannot terminate at tenancy in order to charge a new renter more than the cap would allow for the evicted renter.
The rent-gouging protections apply to all housing types, including vacant units. The state of emergency is slated to… Read More
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The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved an urgency ordinance intended to prevent no-cause evictions until AB 1482 takes effect, a move that several other California jurisdictions are also considering.
The Los Angeles ordinance is intended as a stopgap until the Jan. 1 implementation of AB 1482, the newly signed statewide rent control and “just cause” eviction law. Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the temporary legislation Tuesday afternoon.