The California Apartment Association this week issued a letter explaining its continuing opposition to a “free rent” bill to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee later this month. AB…
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The California Apartment Association has stopped a pair of bills that would have limited the ability of landlords to terminate tenancies and made it more difficult to sell rental properties.…
The California Apartment Association this week issued opposition letters regarding three of the most troubling rental housing-related bills of 2020. The bills include AB 1703, which would give tenants and…
The California Apartment Association has asked Bay Area health officers to adopt a uniform set of guidelines for the opening of pools, gyms, and other amenities at apartment communities. In…
A bill introduced in the California Legislature this week would force landlords to defer rents for possibly years on end for tenants who’ve been unable — or unwilling — to…
A bill that would stop Michael Weinstein from using money from his taxpayer-funded AIDS Healthcare Foundation to further his anti-housing agenda has passed its first test in the Assembly. The…
The most egregious provision of AB 828 by Assemblyman Phil Ting is gone. The bill by the San Francisco Democrat no longer mandates that the courts reduce rent by 25%. Ting removed that rent-cut provision from the bill following a grassroots opposition campaign spearheaded by the California Apartment…
A bill that would authorize the California courts to cut rents by 25% won’t get a hearing until summer at the earliest. AB 828 by Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco,…
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…