Santa Monica voters this fall will decide whether to dramatically tighten the city’s cap on rent increases and authorize the rent board to ban rent increases altogether during states of…
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The California Apartment Association is opposing a bill that would require that landlords inform prospective tenants about the energy efficiency of properties being offered for rent. Under SB 1026 by…
Over the objections of the California Apartment Association, the Pomona City Council on Monday enacted an urgency rent control ordinance to serve as a stopgap while city staff drafts a…
Mountain View’s Rental Housing Committee has partially revised its newly adopted policies for calculating base rent to soften the blow to housing providers who provide one-month rent concessions to their…
Unlike emergency declarations from the governor’s office issued due to wildfires, severe storms and the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly announced statewide monkeypox emergency has not triggered the state’s anti-price-gouging law…
Gov. Gavin Newsom this past weekend declared a wildfire emergency in Siskiyou County, activating protections against price gouging that include limits on rent increases. The declaration, made Saturday, July 30,…
Some good news for rental housing providers came out of an unexpected place last month, when the San Francisco Superior Court struck down portions of a San Francisco law that…
The Oak Fire raging near Yosemite National Park has led to Gov. Newsom to declare a state of emergency in Mariposa County on July 23, 2022. This move has again…
The California Apartment Association on Monday requested that the federal judge presiding over its legal challenge against Alameda County’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium decide part of the case now instead of…
The California Apartment Association is encouraging all Sacramento rental housing providers to hold off on evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent if they still have an application pending with the…