The Anaheim City Council on Tuesday voted to help tenants cover unpaid rent accrued during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will provide an additional $3 million in community relief funding…
Author: Mike Nemeth
Two Bay Area jurisdictions this week adopted regulations to freeze rent increases in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. CAA worked closely with both jurisdictions – the city of San Jose…
CAA today condemned the threatened rent strikes that tenant advocacy groups are attempting to organize in California. Extreme tenant-rights groups have urged all tenants to withhold May’s rent — even…
The Pet Addendum (Form CA-080) is one of CAA’s most popular forms. It allows the landlord to grant permission for a tenant to have a pet, when pets are prohibited…
CAA-sponsored legislation to help both landlords and renters endure the financial difficulties brought on by COVID-19 is now in print. Under SB 1410, the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program, the…
Several Northern California counties this week extended their shelter-in-place orders while loosening certain rules that affect rental housing. The revised orders lift some restrictions on certain low-risk activities, including construction,…
CAA members have flooded the inboxes of state lawmakers with requests that they reject a bill that would allow the California courts to cut rents by 25%. More than 55,000…
On May 1, tenant activists are expected to make good on their threat to start rent strikes in California and elsewhere in the United States. Groups are calling on tenants…
The California Apartment Association today vowed to fight anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein’s efforts to have Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature suspend the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, California’s most important…
Small businesses suffering financial hardships due to COVID-19, including the rental housing industry and companies that serve that industry, will soon get another chance to obtain loans under the federal…