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A bill introduced this year would create yet another source of funding for unethical attorneys to drag out legitimate eviction cases and rack up legal bills for good rental housing providers.
The statewide-eviction defense program would come from AB 1487 by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Van Nuys.
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Legislation unveiled Thursday would force California landlords to stay in the rental housing business for at least five years, even if they are losing money month after month.
AB 854 by Assemblyman Alex Lee, D-San Jose, takes aim at California’s Ellis Act, a law that protects a landlord’s right to leave the rental housing business.
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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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During a televised round-table discussion of Proposition 10 last week, Debra Carlton of the California Apartment Association recalled the days before the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
In 1995, the Legislature passed Costa-Hawkins to protect against extreme forms of rent control, including rent caps on single-family homes, individually owned condominiums and new construction. Before those protections were in place, many landlords were quitting the rental-housing business.
“Property owners were getting out,” Carlton, senior vice president of public affairs for CAA, said during an episode of KQED Newsroom. “Even in Berkeley, we lost about 3,000 single-family homes because owners said, ‘I’m not… Read More
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Rent control proponents announced this week that they have suspended their signature-gathering campaign in Long Beach.
Housing Long Beach, the group that was collecting signatures, initially attempted to qualify its rent control measure for the Nov. 6 ballot, but it missed its June 1 deadline to submit more than the 27,000 signatures required to qualify.
The group then set its sights on submitting the signatures by the next deadline, July 30, in hopes of qualifying the measure for the March 2020 election. Although cutoff to submit signatures is still a couple weeks away, Housing Long Beach has pulled the plug… Read More
The city of Palo Alto on Monday, Oct. 16, will consider studying the possible adoption of a rent control ordinance.
Council members Lydia Kou, Karen Holman and Tom DuBois issued a proposal to study whether Palo Alto should:
Cap the annual rent increase by a certain percentage
Institute a just-cause eviction ordinance
Study other open-ended renter protections
Palo Alto’s high housing costs can be traced to the city’s inability to meet the demand for housing.
The California Apartment Association has secured a voice on the Committee to House the Bay Area, a task force launching a 16-month campaign to help solve the region’s housing crisis.
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The California Apartment Association has called on members of the Assembly to reject a bill that would undercut the state’s density-bonus law and make housing in San Francisco more expensive.
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Earthquakes are not selective about where and when they strike, and they are equally as indiscriminate on the types of buildings they can rattle to the ground. While it is true that some structures may be more prone to damage than others, the reality is that virtually all buildings have the capacity to fail in a major quake.
Recognizing that, many cities throughout the state are kicking off new laws requiring retrofits of various types of buildings – a phenomenon the Los Angeles Times recently proclaimed as the start of a “new frontier” for earthquake safety.
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The San Mateo City Council next week will consider an emergency ordinance that would temporarily ban rent increases on pre-1995 apartments.
The council will consider the emergency ordinance at 7 p.m. Monday, April 4, at San Mateo City Hall. The ordinance, which also includes just-cause eviction measures, was recommended by city staff Thursday evening — just two business days before the council meeting.
If approved Monday, the measure could take effect as early as the following day. It would then last 90 days but could be extended.
City staff justifies this proposal by calling this a “temporary” measure. It is… Read More
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