California Apartment Association

The California Apartment Association’s Legal Fund helps the association take on court cases with significant implications for rental housing providers’ rights and members’ bottom line.

Your gift funds the legal resources CAA needs to pursue that work.

Four current cases show the stakes for rental housing providers. Here is where each stands.

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The California Apartment Association beat back a wave of rent-cap and fee bills in the Legislature this year but told members the harder fights are moving to city halls and the courts.

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California housing providers could see the state’s 10% emergency rent cap applied to long-term leases and triggered by wars fought overseas, under two bills pending when lawmakers return from recess Aug. 3. Both rewrite the same statute, and both are among the last priority bills the California Apartment Association is fighting this year.

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Santa Monica’s City Council has placed three rent-control ballot measures before voters Nov. 3, including one that could let a rent-controlled tenancy continue indefinitely as qualifying occupants replace the original tenant.

Under that measure, a landlord could not evict a tenant for moving in a spouse, domestic partner, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, si...

CAA members who missed the association’s mid-year virtual membership meeting can now watch the full recording. Association leaders walked members through the year’s legislative, legal and local fights on behalf of rental housing providers during the July 16 session.

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