The Concord City Council on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to its rental housing laws, including the rolling back of the city’s rent mediation program and new requirements surrounding fixed-term leases…
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Selling rental properties in California will take significantly longer if a bill introduced this month becomes law. Under AB 1703 by Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, tenants and certain community…
California’s Secretary of State’s Office has assigned a proposition number to the extreme rent control measure slated for the Nov. 3 statewide ballot: Proposition 21. The measure attacks California’s Costa-Hawkins…
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic will remain in place at least into early fall. Last week, Newsom extended the order through Sept. 30. It…
Thanks to the work of the California Apartment Association, a bill that emerged from the state Senate on Thursday no longer includes fines of up to $20,000 for violations of…
There’s no turning back now. Thursday was the deadline for Michael Weinstein to withdraw his radical rent control measure from California’s statewide ballot. He did not.
For many rental housing providers, July 1, 2020, may be a significant date. Under AB 1482, the state’s new rent cap and just-cause-for-eviction law, July 1 triggers additional notice requirements in new and renewed…
In the fifth edition of the CAA Podcast, Debra Carlton, CAA’s executive vice president of state public affairs, and Joshua Howard, the association’s executive vice president of local public affairs,…
Los Angeles city residents may eventually vote on a proposed “vacancy tax,” but it won’t be this year. After a letter-writing campaign spearheaded by the California Apartment Association, the City…
The city of Sacramento has filed a lawsuit in hopes of keeping a rent control initiative off November’s ballot and holding a tenant activist to her pledge to drop the…