It’s April 1, and the rent is due. With COVID-19 prompting layoffs and job cuts across California, though, many tenants won’t be able to pay it. In these cases, the California Apartment Association urges landlords to respond with…
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A Los Angeles city councilman wants to lower the annual rent cap to 60% of the Consumer Price Index, the same formula used in San Francisco. At present, the annual…
The California Legislature this week passed a bill that would make it illegal to reject a prospective tenant solely based on the applicant’s use of a Section 8 federal housing…
An Assembly committee has approved a bill that would make it discriminatory to deny applicants for rental housing simply because they have a Section 8 voucher. The bill, SB 329…
The California state Senate has approved a bill that would require landlords to consider prospective tenants who use Section 8 housing vouchers. SB 329 by Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles,…
A bill that would require landlords to consider prospective tenants who use Section 8 housing vouchers advanced this week from the Senate Judiciary Committee. SB 329 by Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, would make…
The California Apartment Association is opposing a recommendation from a regional policy committee that the state Legislature impose rent control and “just cause” eviction restrictions across the entire nine-county Bay…
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that aims to ensure tenants know about any flood risk to residential property they are considering to rent. Under AB 646 by Assemblyman…
The California Legislature ended its two-year session having sent all four of CAA’s housing-supply bills to the governor’s desk, as well as a number of other positive proposals for the…
By Thursday evening, all four housing-production bills sponsored by the California Apartment Association had advanced from the Assembly to the state Senate. Three of the bills moved off the Assembly…