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Did you know the city of San Diego requires rental housing providers to notify their residents every year about recycling services?
Or that the city has its own eviction rules that differ from state law?
Operating rental housing in San Diego can be complicated, but the California Apartment Association makes it a whole lot easier.
CAA offers the necessary forms and educational materials for landlords to follow San Diego’s unique rules.
Below are links to a new series of materials specific to San Diego:
Complying with the city’s just-cause eviction ordinance
Issue Insight: City of San Diego’s Just Cause Ordinance… Read More
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Local governments in both Northern and Southern California were hard at work this past week considering numerous policies with direct impacts on rental housing providers.
The boards of supervisors in both Alameda and Sonoma counties deferred action on proposals to expand their COVID-19 tenant protections.
Alameda County has been considering an ordinance to halt nearly all evictions, allow tenants up to one year to repay rent deferred during the pandemic, and prohibit landlords from evicting tenants who fail to pay back rent once the eviction moratorium is lifted.
The California Apartment Association raised numerous legal objections to the Alameda proposal… Read More
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A growing number of cities are issuing eviction protections for tenants financially strapped by the coronavirus.
Major cities to adopt COVID-19 eviction restrictions include Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco and Sacramento. For a full list of cities that have approved such measures, visit CAA’s COVID-19 resource page.
Local governments considering COVID-19 eviction moratoria range from Anaheim to Fresno to Santa Cruz County. Visit the resource page for other jurisdictions weighing these measures.
CAA staff is updating the lists of moratoria each day, so check the resource page regularly.
The California Apartment Association continues its work to ensure… Read More
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Southern California landlords can soon receive increased rebates for installing high-efficiency toilets in qualifying apartments.
The boosted rebates are part of an 18-month pilot program from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The program, which begins Monday, March 18, aims to replace 10,000 toilets in older multifamily housing and significantly increase water conservation in the region’s disadvantaged communities.
The district’s rebate will grow from $40 to $250 for premium high-efficiency models. To qualify, the toilets (1.1 gallons per flush or less) must be installed in apartments built before 1994. Pre- and post-inspections required.
Metropolitan is also providing $1.5 million… Read More
Starting in 2019, all rental property owners in the city of San Diego will be required to accept Section 8 housing vouchers.
The mandate comes under an ordinance approved Tuesday by the San Diego City Council. The policy change requires landlords to consider for tenancy all people with the ability to pay for a given unit, including those who would pay rent using Section 8.
While the California Apartment Association encourages voluntary acceptance of federal housing vouchers, it opposes legislation that mandates their acceptance.
Wildfires have returned to California this summer, prompting a new set of emergency declarations from Gov. Jerry Brown and accompanying bans on rent increases exceeding 10 percent.
The most recent emergency declarations are for San Diego, Santa Barbara, Siskiyou and Lake counties.
Emergency declarations trigger the state’s anti-price gouging protections, which prohibit raising the price of many consumer goods and services, including that of rental housing, by more than 10 percent above pre-emergency levels after an emergency has been declared. The rent-gouging ban applies to existing tenants and at unit turnover.
The governor’s extension of prohibitions on rent-gouging related to… Read More
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Although not on the agenda, arguments over rent control dominated the discussion Wednesday at a San Diego City Council committee meeting.
Scores of public speakers – both for and against rent control – appeared before the Smart Growth and Land Use Committee, which includes four City Council members.
The meeting was designed to focus on anti-displacement, Section 8 vouchers and issues surrounding the expiration of San Diego’s affordable housing stock.
That didn’t matter to San Diego Tenants United, a media-savvy but hastily organized tenant-advocacy group that took an aggressive stance in hijacking part of Wednesday’s discussion.
A 3-mile stretch of biking trails along the Santa Ana Riverbed near Angel Stadium has long been an encampment site for Anaheim’s homeless population.
Over the past three years, however, the site’s population has increased exponentially. Estimates now put the homeless population along the riverbed path at between 500 and 1,000.
On Jan. 22, the county began clearing out the camp. The idea was to prevent a health crisis like the Hepatitis C outbreak caused by unsanitary conditions at a homeless camp last year in San Diego.
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The California Apartment Association is closely monitoring increased activity by tenant activists in San Diego following a string of media reports about rising rents in the area.
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During an interview this week about rising rents in San Diego, Whitney Benzian of CAA pointed to a lack of housing supply.
The CAA executive also pointed to excessive government regulations and fees, which makes development more costly to builders, and ultimately, so residents.
“Costs for permits, water, development impact fees — things like that are burdensome,” Benzian, vice president of public affairs for CAA San Diego, told CW6 News reporter Gary Buzel.
He also pointed to the recent trend of building micro-apartments as a less costly option that can work especially well for college students.
“There’s a housing supply… Read More