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The California Apartment Association is opposing a bill that would force thousands of rental housing owners across California to register their properties with the state, calling it a costly and burdensome requirement with no clear purpose.
The bill, by Assemblyman Ian Calderon, D-Whittier, would require all companies or corporations that own more than 20 residential properties with a total value of more than $10 million to register with California’s Department of Business Oversight.
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For the remainder of 2017, lawmakers have shelved a bill that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, landmark legislation that’s protected California from extreme forms of rent control for more than 20 years.
Amid strong opposition from the California Apartment Association, legislators this week decided to make AB 1506 a two-year bill, meaning the Legislature won’t consider a repeal of Costa-Hawkins this year but could take it up again in 2018. The author will instead host a series of public hearings to determine what can be done on this topic.
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The California Apartment Association is mobilizing members to oppose a bid to bring rent control to Pacifica through a special election in November 2017.
Council members will discuss the proposal Monday.
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A judge Wednesday denied CAA’s request to keep Mountain View’s rent control ordinance on hold pending the association’s legal challenge to the measure.
The decision by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William Elfving means Mountain View’s rent control law, passed by voters in November as Measure V, takes effect immediately.
The Legislature has scheduled hearings this month on a pair of bills that target the Ellis Act, landmark legislation that protects a property owner’s right to exit the rental housing business.
The Ellis Act, passed in 1985, provides an important safety valve for landlords operating in rent controlled jurisdictions.
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The California Apartment Association and city of San Jose are asking local property owners to identify available units for residents displaced by recent flooding in Silicon Valley.
“The California Apartment Association recognizes the urgent need for housing that the flood has placed on our already tight housing market,” said Anil Babbar, vice president at CAA. “It is because of this urgent need that we are placing a call to our membership to identify available rental units and provide that information to the city.”
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The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday decided against pursuing a rent control policy, opting instead to examine alternative approaches to the city’s housing shortage.
Santa Barbara will now take a closer look at policies including enhanced mediation and rental inspections. The council also wants a task force to study a potential just-cause eviction ordinance, however, council members expressed reservations about the policy.
San Francisco landlords who use the Ellis Act to exit the rental housing business should not have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in additional tenant-relocation fees, an appellate court has ruled.
In 2015, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance requiring landlords to pay up to $50,000 to cover any rent increases tenants evicted under the Ellis Act incur over a two-year period.
A bill proposed in the Assembly this year would help protect rental housing owners against baseless litigation filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Under AB 913 by Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, a court may prohibit extremely high-frequency litigants from filing ADA lawsuits without first determining that the litigation has merit and is not intended to harass the defendant.
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