In CAA’s second podcast, Debra Carlton, CAA’s executive vice president for state public affairs, discusses legislative efforts to bring financial relief to both tenants and landlords during the COVID-19 crisis.
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CAA has sponsored legislation designed to lower the property taxes of landlords who’ve suffered financial damages due to COVID-19. SB 1431 by Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, would clear the way…
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-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…
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…
In CAA’s inaugural podcast, association CEO Tom Bannon talks with Communication Director Mike Nemeth about the Legislature’s response to COVID-19, including a bill that would allow judges to mandate 25%…
The California Apartment Association this week sponsored a legislative proposal that would help both landlords and renters endure the financial difficulties brought on by COVID-19. Under SB 1410 by Sen.…
A bill in response to COVID-19 would allow the courts to force rental property owners in California to reduce rents by 25%. The bill, AB 828 by Assemblyman Phil Ting,…