The California Apartment Association is mobilizing members to help stop a temporary rent control ordinance planned for unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and…
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A bill intended to boost the construction of accessory-dwelling units has passed the state Senate and now heads to the Assembly. SB 831 by Sen. Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, won full…
The California Apartment Association provided testimony this week about the role of NIMBYism in the high cost of housing for the middle class. Debra Carlton, senior vice president of public…
All four of the California Apartment Association’s housing-supply bills have won the governor’s signature, a victory for property owners, developers and renters. In light of California’s housing shortage, CAA sponsored…
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law a pair of bills that will help chip away at the state’s housing shortage by making it easier to build in-law units on residential lots. The…
With the state Legislature’s intense focus on housing this year, the California Apartment Association has played an unprecedented role in shaping policy at the Capitol. In the 2015-16 legislative session,…
With this month’s deadline for Gov. Jerry Brown to sign and veto bills in the proverbial rear-view mirror, CAA has compiled the following summaries of rental housing-related laws set to…
Apartment owners and managers can plug in to new research on electric-vehicle charging stations in rental housing communities. The 40-page Electric Vehicle Charging in Apartment-Based Housing report outlines the challenges…
In the legislative arena, 2014 brought plenty of victories for the California Apartment Association. Over the past year, CAA fought some hard battles to move bills out of the Legislature…
At the California Apartment Association, we advocated for and against dozens of bills this year that could affect the rental housing business. In most cases, Gov. Jerry Brown agreed with…