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The California Apartment Association today announced that Adam Goldfarb, vice president at Manco Abbott Inc., has begun his second term as secretary/treasurer of the association’s statewide board of directors.
Goldfarb brings a wealth of industry experience to his position, having managed client relationships for institutional and multifamily clients.
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The California Apartment Association has published its Key Findings Report from the 2016 California Housing Forum, an event that brought together diverse thought leaders to help solve the state’s housing crisis.
“Inadequate housing stock threatens California’s economic prosperity and future,” said Tom Bannon, chief executive officer of the California Apartment Association, which organized the Housing Forum. “It is time to finally address the real causes of this crisis in a comprehensive and statewide manner.”
The inaugural Forum,
held in September in Sacramento, assembled a diverse group of stakeholders – legislators, economists, employers, developers, environmentalists and advocacy groups – to discuss… Read More
A petition to overturn rent control in Santa Rosa collected enough valid signatures from voters to bring the city’s ordinance to a halt, the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters has confirmed.
On Friday, Oct. 14, election officials certified that 9,355 valid signatures had been collected, more than the 8,485 signatures required to stop the city’s rent control and just-cause-for-eviction ordinance.
On Thursday, Sept. 29, the California Apartment Association brought together members from all sides of the housing debate to start working toward consensus on how to resolve the state’s worsening housing crisis.
Participants included representatives from a variety of stakeholder groups, including affordable housing advocates, lawmakers, builders, property owners and tenants.
Below, you’ll find footage from the forum. We’ve divided the video into four segments, making it easier for you to find the content that interests you most.
Introduction and presentation from the legislative analyst
In the first video, Tom Bannon, chief executive officer of the California Apartment Association, welcomes… Read More
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On talk radio this week, the CEO of the California Apartment Association and a Stanford University law professor faced off in an hour-long debate over the rent control measures going before voters in the November election.
The debate featured CAA’s Tom Bannon and Juliet Brodie, director at the Stanford Community Law Clinic.
KQED’s Michael Kransy moderated the discussion. Visit this page to stream the show.
Also this week, Bannon discussed housing issues on Capitol Public Radio and on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles.
Last month a group of concerned residents came from Los Angeles to the California Apartment Association headquarters in Sacramento to protest rising rents and urge the adoption of rent control.
Rather than call in the police, or lock our doors, I met them in our lobby and began a dialogue that is long overdue. I did agree with some of their concerns, but I disagreed that rent control is the answer.
In the real world, regulations and restrictions have only resulted in fewer available homes. Since controls are not “means-tested” they do nothing to guarantee that lower-income residents will have… Read More
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To help California’s low-income families secure housing, elected officials should focus more on encouraging private residential development and less on existing government programs that subsidize construction or impose rent control, the Legislative Analyst’s Office says.
Removing barriers to private construction, however, will take time and a political shift, says the report, released Wednesday by the nonpartisan office, which advises the Legislature on fiscal and policy matters.
“Doing so will require policymakers to revisit long–standing state policies on local governance and environmental protection, as well as local planning and land use regimes,” says the study, Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford… Read More
Four rental housing leaders will address the economy, apartment trends and other issues next week during CAA Connect — Northern California Rental Housing Conference & Expo.
The multifamily executives will speak during CEO Panel – A Conversation with the Industry’s Leading Executives, scheduled from 1 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. in Ballroom K of the Santa Clara Convention Center.
The panelists include the following:
Mike Bissell, president of multifamily property management at the SARES-REGIS Group.
Thomas Scott, president and co-founder of Cambridge Management Co.
Jeff Bosshard, president of multifamily operations for Woodmont Real Estate Services.
Julie Brawn-Whitesides, executive vice president at… Read More
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The California Apartment Association next week will help address housing issues facing the Inland Empire.
Tom Bannon, chief executive officer for CAA, will speak at “Housing the Future: The Inland Empire as Southern California’s Indispensable Geography.” Bannon is taking part as a member of the Industry Solutions Panel.
The symposium is Thursday, Feb. 5, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Ontario. Local leaders at the event will discuss the Inland Empire’s great potential and its unique challenges.
National CORE, a nonprofit affordable housing developer, has commissioned a series of studies on how the market can begin producing enough homes that families… Read More
Thousands of housing units are coming to San Jose’s downtown, and a major tech firm has big plans for the area, too, a city councilman said at the California Apartment Association’s Outlook 2014.
“By this time next year, we’re going to have about 2,500 housing units under construction in the downtown core alone,” San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo said, according to The Registry, Bay Area Real Estate.
On Thursday, Feb. 6, The Registry covered CAA’s economic summit for Silicon Valley’s rental housing industry.
“We’re soon going to be able to announce a major tech company filling about 2 million… Read More
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