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Despite opposition from the California Apartment Association, the Inglewood City Council on Tuesday unanimously granted preliminary approval to a permanent rent control ordinance, capping rental increases for most affected apartments at 5% per year.
Tagged: Rent Control Los Angeles
Culver City is about to become the latest Southern
California community to weigh rent control policies.
On Monday, June 24, the City Council is scheduled to discuss
a possible
freeze on rent increases.
In preparation, the California Apartment Association and the
Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles are holding a joint town hall
discussion, Thursday, June 20. Members of both associations are invited to participate
in the gathering, which starts at 6 p.m. at the Culver City
Rotary Plaza.
“Housing providers must come together to get informed and
become organized,” said Fred Sutton, CAA vice president of public affairs. “Learn… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Los Angeles
Despite
strong opposition from the California Apartment Association, the San Rafael
City Council passed a “just cause” eviction and mandatory-mediation ordinance Monday
on a 3-1 vote.
The just-cause eviction
ordinance will prevent landlords from terminating tenancies without
proving that a specified cause exists. Such policies drag out the eviction
process and make it more difficult and costlier to terminate tenancies.
Mandatory mediation will be required
for rental increases exceeding 5 percent over a 12-month period and will
include single-family homes.
Matthew Buck
The
California Apartment Association has again expanded its public affairs team in
Los Angeles County, better positioning the association to meet the legislative
and compliance needs of its members.
Matthew Buck, a veteran government affairs advocate at CAA, was tapped this spring to spearhead the association’s public affairs work in Glendale, Pasadena, Alhambra, West Covina and Pomona. Buck previously headed CAA’s government advocacy programs in Orange County and the Inland Empire.
Bringing Buck to L.A. County marks the second time in as many years that CAA has added public affairs resources to the region, which continues to present… Read More
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has extended a prohibition on rent increases over 10 percent for several counties devastated by wildfires over the past few years.
In an executive order, Newsom announced that protections against price gouging of rents and other consumer goods will continue through Dec. 31 of this year for Mendocino, Napa, Santa Barbara, Shasta, and Sonoma counties. Newsom’s order came Friday, May 31, the day the protections had been scheduled to expire. It is intended to help residents still recovering from 2017 and 2018 fires, including the Mendocino Complex, Carr, Tubbs, Nuns, Atlas and Thomas fires.
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The California Apartment Association remains steadfastly opposed to AB 1482, the statewide rent control bill, which fails to address the ongoing housing shortage and stands to make the problem worse.
The bill, by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San
Francisco, passed off the Assembly floor this week and advanced to the state
Senate.
“It
makes no sense to cap rents unless you’re also going to cap all of the operating
expenses that apartment owners incur,” said Tom Bannon, CAA’s chief executive
officer. “And there’s nothing in this bill that encourages one… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has stopped a bill that
would have imposed “just cause” eviction controls across California.
On Thursday, AB 1481 died for the year, lacking the votes needed to win full Assembly approval by this week’s deadline.
CAA led a strong grassroots campaign to defeat the bill.
At its Legislative Conference, the California Apartment
Association spent Wednesday morning providing a crash course on the most significant
legislation facing the rental housing industry in 2019.
By the afternoon, more than 400 rental housing professionals,
thoroughly prepped by CAA’s public affairs team, were ready for their walk to
the Capitol, where they went from office to office, advocating for their
industry in one of the busiest years in recent memory for landlord-tenant
legislation.
The program started at 10 a.m. in a sprawling ballroom in the
downtown Sacramento Sheraton Grand. Over the next two hours, CAA’s government
affairs leaders… Read More
Despite strong opposition from the California Apartment Association, the California Chamber of Commerce and others, a statewide rent control bill on Wednesday night passed off the state Assembly floor.
CAA remains steadfastly opposed to the bill, AB 1482 by Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco. The legislation now awaits committee hearings in the Senate.
Early Wednesday evening, AB 1482 appeared to be defeated for the year, being 7-8 votes short of the 41 votes needed for passage. Chiu, however, agreed to several amendments to his proposal, which led the California Association of Realtors to lift its opposition and take a neutral position… Read More
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Signs only required in smoking areas and enclosed parking garages
The California Apartment Association has made it easier for landlords to comply with new Proposition 65 “safe harbor” warning requirements, which apply to all California companies with 10 or more employees.
This summer, thanks to a new regulation secured by CAA, landlords will be able to use their rental agreements to communicate most Proposition 65 warnings to tenants – a better alternative than the onerous safe harbor under a prior regulation that took effect in August of 2018.
Proposition
65, enacted by voters in 1986, requires businesses with 10 or… Read More
Tagged: Compliance