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An effort to place rent control before Santa Ana voters this November has entered the signature-gathering phase.
The city attorney for Santa Ana recently gave petitioners the green light to begin circulating a petition for a measure titled the City of Santa Ana Rent Stabilization and Renters’ Rights Act. The title and summary is accessible here.
Tenant advocates filed the initiative with the city clerk in April and have been working for some time to launch their signature-gathering campaign.
Tagged: ElectionsRent Control Orange County
The California Apartment Association has expanded its Southern California government affairs team to bring greater representation to rental housing providers in South Los Angeles County.
Earlier this month, CAA named Frederick Sutton as vice president of public affairs for Long Beach and more than 20 other municipalities in L.A. County.
Sutton, who started on Jan. 16, brings a wealth of experience representing rental housing providers.
Tagged: Local government Long Beach
The rent control movement established a foothold in Southern California. Lawmakers passed a historic package of bills to address the state’s ongoing housing crisis. And one of the state’s most important rental housing laws came under attack.
2017 certainly generated some big headlines for California’s rental housing industry.
In the top-10 list below, we summarize the most significant of those stories. To delve deeper into the issues and explore related content, follow the links embedded in each summary.
Costa-Hawkins Act comes under attack with legislation, possible ballot measure
Rent increases limited to 10 percent while protections in effect
With wildfires continuing to spread in Southern California, Gov. Jerry Brown has declared states of emergency in San Diego and Santa Barbara counties. The declarations on Thursday come just days after the fires prompted Brown to declare emergencies in the counties of Los Angeles and Ventura.
The governor’s declarations once again trigger the state’s anti-price gouging law. When activated, Penal Code Section 396 prohibits raising the price of many consumer goods and services, including that of rental housing, by more than 10 percent after the emergency has been declared.
The… Read More
Tenant activists left themselves a dangerously small margin for error in a signature-gathering effort to place a rent control measure before Glendale voters.
The rent control measure pushed by the tenant’s union seeks to cap rent increases at 3 percent annually.
Tagged: ElectionsRent Control Los Angeles
On the heels of a pro-rent control march in East Los Angeles, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors this week voted to examine tenant protection policies for the nation’s most populous county.
The California Apartment Association, the state’s leading trade group for the rental housing industry, has tapped Greg Terzakis as senior vice president of its newly created Central California region.
CAA’s Central California region covers a large swath of the Central Valley, from San Joaquin County to Tulare County.
There’s a growing effort underway to make California communities safer, as cities throughout the state adopt new laws requiring seismic retrofits of buildings proven to be vulnerable to damage in an earthquake.
San Francisco, Berkeley and other Bay Area cities were among the first to mandate earthquake retrofits for wood-framed, soft-story buildings – structures with open parking on the ground floor and apartment units built on the stories above. Los Angeles sparked the trend in Southern California with the nation’s most sweeping seismic retrofit law, adopted in 2015.
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It’s time to recognize excellence in the rental housing industry in regions throughout California.
Southern California: Mission Awards
Members of the San Diego Division of CAA, the deadline is 5 p.m. today to submit nominations for the Mission Awards.
That gives you just a few hours to make nominations.
Know someone deserving acknowledgement for excellence in work performance? Click below and get nominating.
Northern California: GEMM Awards
Members of the Contra Costa, Napa and Solano Division, your deadline is Friday, July 3, to nominate for the CAA Greater East Bay GEMM Awards. Honor those who demonstrate excellence in the rental… Read More
The California Apartment Association will present a pair of economic forecasts in the next week – one in the Silicon Valley, the other in Southern California.
Both events take place Thursday, Jan. 29.
At the Southern California event, Greg Willett of MPF Research will speak at CAA Orange County’s Professional Property Managers’ Forum in In Newport Beach.
Willett, head of the research and analysis team at MPF, tracks and evaluates evaluating trends in multifamily market fundamentals. He is well versed on multifamily market conditions and activity nationally, by metro, and in many individual neighborhoods.
Willett began his tenure in the… Read More
Tagged: Events Orange CountyTri-County