California Apartment Association Archives

Alameda County Board of Supervisors Vote 4-0 To Ban Criminal Background Checks For Housing

December 24, 2022 8:55 am

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 earlier this week to pass an ordinance that will ban landlords from using criminal background checks on potential tenants, becoming the first such county-wide ban in the Country. The ordinance, also known...

Newsom’s Chief of Staff Ann O’ Leary To Leave Post Later This Month

December 10, 2020 3:20 pmDecember 10, 2020 3:23 pm

Earlier this week, Governor Gavin Newsom’s Chief of Staff, Ann O’Leary, announced that she is to leave her position sometime in the coming weeks to take a job in the presumptive Biden Administration. O’ Leary, a long-time Washington and California...

Bill to Reduce California Rents by 25% Using Coronavirus Crisis as Opportunity to Erode Property Rights

April 17, 2020 10:05 am

The California Apartment Association reports a new legislative proposal using COVID-19 as the reason, would force every rental property owner in California to reduce rents by 25%. AB 828 by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) is a gut and amend...

Criminal Background Checks on Rental Applicants Now Illegal in Oakland

January 22, 2020 4:37 pmJanuary 23, 2020 5:08 pm

On Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council passed the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance, making criminal background checks on potential tenants in private and public housing illegal within the city. The decision by the City Council was immediately praised by housing...

Bill Creating Tenant Unions Also Creates Rent Control

April 26, 2019 2:05 amFebruary 25, 2021 11:30 am

California voters soundly defeated a ballot measure in November 2018 that would have allowed for rent control in every city across the vast state. Proposition 10 would have repealed the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which limits the use of rent...