The state Senate has approved a pair of CAA-sponsored bills that together would help more landlords recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and clarify how California’s anti-price-gouging law applies to rental…
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A bill on the Assembly floor would require that landlords keep their rental units adequately cool. The California Apartment Association asserts that AB 2597 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, circumvents…
Legislation that would have hindered the ability of property owners to move into their own buildings after invoking the Ellis Act has died for the year. Amid opposition from the…
A CAA-sponsored bill that would offer financial relief to landlords who have been deprived of funds from COVID-19 emergency rental assistance program (ERAP) is now on the Senate floor. SB…
The California Apartment Association has stopped a bill that would have treated unpaid rent as consumer debt – just like an unpaid credit card bill. The legislation, SB 1324 by Sen. Maria…
Update, Friday, May 27: Both of the bills described in the article below are now dead for 2022, amid opposition from CAA and its members. Read the full update here.…
Thanks to the California Apartment Association and rental owners, the Chula Vista City Council on Tuesday postponed adoption of an onerous tenant protection ordinance and directed staff to revise the…
The California Apartment Association’s lawsuit challenging Alameda County’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium has been assigned to a judge who’s handling a related case. CAA’s lawsuit, filed May 5, alleges that the…
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review a lower-court decision that undermines the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 state law that places limits on local rent control…
Update: CAA financial-relief bill heads to Senate floor (May 20) The Senate Appropriations Committee next week will consider CAA-sponsored legislation that would offer financial relief to landlords who have been…