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For the third straight year, Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks has proposed legislation that would force rental housing providers to register their properties with the government.
Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks
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The California Apartment Association this month argued before the state Supreme Court in a case that could affect the timing and procedures involved in litigating evictions across the state.
Attorney Curtis Dowling of the law firm Dowling and Marquez argued on behalf of CAA during oral arguments in Stancil v. Superior Court of San Mateo County.
California cities and counties have one week to decide whether they’ll conform with the state funding allocation under SB 91, the latest legislative response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tenants and landlords.
SB 91, signed into law last Friday, creates a framework to distribute $2.6 billion in federal funds to landlords who have lost rental income during the COVID-19 pandemic. Landlords with qualifying tenants can receive up to 80% of the rent owed if they agree to forgive the remaining 20%.
Local governments that decline to follow state rules established through the legislation, including the 80%/20% payment… Read More
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Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a bill that will use $2.6 billion in federal funds to pay landlords up to 80% of rent owed by qualifying tenants with COVID-19 financial hardships.
The legislation, SB 91, won overwhelming bipartisan approval Thursday in both houses of the Legislature.
SB 91 will use federal funds to pay up to 80% of a tenant’s back rent accumulated between April 1 of last year and March 31, 2021. A landlord who accepts the money will have to forgive the remaining unpaid rent for that period. If the landlord refuses this arrangement, the maximum subsidy drops… Read More
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The California Legislature today approved a bill that will use $2.6 billion in federal funds to pay landlords up to 80% of rent owed by qualifying tenants with COVID-19 financial hardships.
SB 91 passed the Senate on a 34-0 vote and the Assembly on a 71-1 vote. Gov. Newsom is expected to sign the legislation shortly.
SB 91 will use federal funds to pay up to 80% of a tenant’s back rent accumulated between April 1 of last year and March 31, 2021. A landlord who accepts the money will have to forgive the remaining unpaid rent for that period.… Read More
Courts should not allow the government to use previous infringements on private property rights as a justification for further infringements. That is the central argument in a brief filed jointly by the California Apartment Association and San Francisco Apartment Association.
The brief supports a lawsuit filed by the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP) and Rent Stabilization Association (RSA) – groups that, like CAA, represent the interests of rental property owners – challenging 2019 amendments to New York City’s rent control law.
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An updated edition of CAA’s Managing Rental Housing textbook is now available for purchase.
Managing Rental Housing offers a veritable encyclopedia of state rental housing law, explains the cycle of the tenancy, and provides practical information needed to operate rental property efficiently, ethically, and profitably in California.
CAA’s premiere textbook has been thoroughly updated for its 10th edition. It is more user-friendly and addresses the biggest change in California landlord-tenant law in decades: The Tenant Protection Act of 2019, also known as AB 1482.
To purchase the print edition of Managing Rental Housing, click the button below. An electronic version… Read More
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The California Apartment Association has demanded that any extension of the state’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium include assistance for landlords who have been required to provide housing while collecting little-to-no rent.
While California’s COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020 is slated to expire Jan. 31, political headwinds make an extension a near certainty.
The details of that extension, however, are still under negotiation.
CAA this week sent a letter to the governor and legislative leadership and has urged its members to call their representatives with concerns and requests.
“While CAA does not object to a short extension of AB 3088, we… Read More
On the first day of his presidency, Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered a two-month extension of the nation’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium.
The federal eviction protections, which had been slated to sunset Jan. 31, will now run through March 31 unless extended by the president or Congress. The effect of the federal order on California is largely dependent on the fate of the state’s own eviction moratorium. California’s statewide eviction protections, arguably more stringent than the federal order, are set to expire next week, although renewal is a foregone conclusion.
The ultimate timeline for both federal and state moratoria remain at… Read More
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California’s governor and Legislature must take immediate steps to help businesses recover from a pandemic that continues to squeeze the economy, says a letter to state elected leaders from CAA and other business groups.
The Jan. 11 letter, addressed to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate and Assembly leadership and other state lawmakers, points to the turmoil that COVID-19 related business closures have caused. And with repeated surges in infections and hospitalizations, a full reopening of California’s economy remains out of reach.
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