Gov. Gavin Newsom late Monday signed the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020, legislation that prohibits the eviction of renters with genuine COVID-related hardships but reopens the unlawful-detainer process for…
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The California Apartment Association has spent the past week helping negotiate the details of the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020. Negotiations are continuing on the bill, which is expected…
Several of California’s large metro newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News. the L.A. Daily News, and the Orange County Register, took a stand last week against Proposition 21, the…
The California Apartment Association this week issued a letter explaining its continuing opposition to a “free rent” bill to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee later this month. AB…
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Friday announced that California’s Judicial Council will vote “very soon” whether to sunset its emergency suspension of virtually all unlawful-detainer cases throughout the state. The…
The California Apartment Association’s tool for calculating maximum allowable rent increases under AB 1482 is now easier to use. The tool now includes a drop-down menu with county names. Simply…
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…
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…
The Consumer Price Index rates used for calculating rent increases under AB 1482 have been updated on the CAA website. AB 1482 took effect Jan. 1, 2020, and imposes rent…
Local governments in both Northern and Southern California were hard at work this past week considering numerous policies with direct impacts on rental housing providers. The boards of supervisors in…