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By SHANT APEKIAN
Numerous candidates backed by the rental housing industry enjoyed success at the ballot box during the California June primary, but contests will remain tight — and the stakes high — heading into November.
The California Apartment Association’s political action committees were heavily engaged in various state Senate and Assembly races.
With legislators now serving 12 years in office in Sacramento, it’s all the more crucial to ensure to elect representatives who understand the importance and value of the rental housing industry in California.
While ballots are still being tallied, it’s clear that Democrats turned out at the… Read More
Tagged: ElectionsLegislature
Facing opposition led by CAA, an inclusionary-housing bill failed to get off the Assembly floor by Thursday’s deadline, but it’s still alive.
AB 2502 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, lacked the needed votes to advance to the Senate. So instead of taking a vote, the bill was referred back to the Committee on Local Government. This unusual move keeps the bill alive, although it’s unclear whether the committee will take it up again.
Mullin’s bill would allow cities and counties to force below-market rate housing in new rental developments.
It would overturn the Palmer v. Los Angeles court… Read More
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
An effort to recall three allies of the rental housing industry from the Lake Forest City Council has failed.
The California Apartment Association, in a variety of ways, helped Mayor Andrew Hamilton, Mayor Pro Tem Scott Voigts and Councilman Dwight Robinson stave off a campaign to cut short their terms.
Hamilton, Voigts, and Robinson make up a housing-friendly majority of the council.
“If we lost them to a recall, we would have seen new housing projects denied at a rapid pace. Lake Forest needs more housing, including apartments, to keep up with demand,” said Tommy Thompson, executive director of CAA… Read More
Tagged: Elections Orange County
When first introduced, AB 2282 would have limited the number of single-family home rentals allowed in a given ZIP code. Then, it would have required all the single-famly rentals be registered with the state. Now, thanks to the lobbying efforts of CAA, the bill by Assemblyman Ian Calderon will do neither.
The current version of AB 2282 aims to create a report of how large-scale buy-to-rent investors have affected California’s real estate market.
The legislation has been reinvented repeatedly since it emerged in February. Perhaps most alarming was the original version’s limit on the number of single-family homes that property… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
CAA is requesting changes to an inclusionary-housing bill that’s up for a vote this week and would authorize local governments to require affordable housing in new rental developments.
AB 2502 by Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, is on the Assembly floor and could be voted upon as soon as Wednesday, June 1.
Confusion over the legality of inclusionary housing mandates in new rental developements began with a court case known as Palmer v. Los Angeles.
Palmer called into question the legality of Los Angeles’ inclusionary-housing ordinance. The city law required a certain percentage of new rental housing be priced… Read More
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
Stricter rent control limits in San Jose will take effect June 17 – many months earlier than expected.
Under the changes, owners can raise rents on rent-controlled units by 5 percent per year. That’s down from the current 8 percent.
The council ratified the June start date on a 9-2 vote at its May 17 meeting.
The lower rent cap is among sweeping changes to the city’s 40-year-old rent control law. The council approved the revisions in April on a 6-5 vote, despite strong opposition from CAA and hundreds of rental owners over the past year.
At the time of… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control
Stricter rent control in San Jose is now scheduled to take effect next month, but much unfinished business remains in revising the city’s long-standing rent law.
On Tuesday, the council voted 9-2 to implement its upcoming 5 percent annual cap on rent increases beginning June 17. The current limit is 8 percent.
The changes will affect about 44,000 apartments already under rent control through the city’s Apartment Rent Ordinance. While a June implementation date is sooner than many property owners expected, it could have been worse.
One councilman, Raul Peralez, attempted to implement the changes immediately, a move that CAA… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
In mid-June, the city of Santa Rosa is expected to impose a moratorium on rent increases of more than 3 percent on the city’s older multifamily housing.
The measure, which won preliminary approval from the council Tuesday, May 10, is intended to limit rent increases while city staff drafts a permanent rent control and just-cause eviction ordinance, a process that could take several months.
Greenlighted on a 4-2 vote, the temporary ordinance applies the 3 percent rent cap cumulatively over a 12-month period. So, while the moratorium is in effect, a landlord who’s already increased rent by 3 percent or… Read More
Legislation that would encourage prospective hosts to review their insurance policies before getting into the home-sharing business has advanced to the Senate floor.
Senate Bill 1092 would require companies such as Airbnb, HomeAway and Flipkey to post disclosures about the importance of confirming insurance coverage related to short-term rentals.
The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, May 3, by a 6-0 vote.
The insurance notice builds on a disclosure required under legislation sponsored by the California Apartment Association last year.
That legislation, SB 761, requires that short-term rental companies post a notice advising tenants to check their rental… Read More
Tagged: LegislationShort-term Rentals
A CAA-sponsored bill clarifying that landlords can prohibit renters from smoking marijuana in apartments is halfway to becoming law.
On Thursday, April 5, the Assembly approved AB 2300 on a 74-0 vote, sending it to the state Senate.
“This is about protecting families that live in close proximity to others,” the author of the bill, Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, said last week in a statement. “Second-hand smoke can be a real problem, especially for families who live in apartments or other multi-family residences.”
In 2011, the California Apartment Association sponsored, and the state Legislature overwhelmingly passed, legislation to allow rental… Read More
Tagged: LegislationLegislature