(photo from Burnt Ramen protest on 12/20/16 in Richmond)
On December 30th, 2016 Richmond, CA's new rent control and just cause protections will go into effect. We need to ensure that tenants in Richmond at risk of eviction know of these protections and have access to the resources to understand them.
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Giampaoli Law is the solo practice of Lisa Giampaoli, attorney at law.
“Now we have to work to overturn the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act at the state level in order to have truly effective renter protections,” Vann said.
In the race for the at-large City Council seat, Kaplan won with 53.25 of the vote, defeating challengers Peggy Moore (19.58 percent), Bruce Quan (16.67 percent), Matt Hummel (6.60 percent) and Nancy Sidebotham (3.73 percent).
Now that Measure V has passed, Mountain View officials are trying to figure out how to implement a citywide rent-control program, a complicated endeavor that could require creating a new branch of staff at City Hall. Mayor Pat Showalter is reportedly calling for a special meeting to consider an urgency ordinance to prevent a potential backlash of evictions before rent control takes effect, by enacting just-cause protections for tenants.
A major test of rent control as a way to solve the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis met mixed results at the polls last week.
Initiatives to establish formal rent-control programs appear to be on track to pass in Mountain View and Richmond but failed in San Mateo, Burlingame and Alameda. All were placed on the ballot by citizens who collected enough signatures.
A Trump presidency is alarming to California as a whole, and to California renters in particular. The majority of California tenants are women and from communities of color.
With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Oakland-based housing activist group Causa Justa :: Just Cause has spent more than $140,000 in support of the measure, city campaign finance records show. Though advocates for the measure expect counter-spending from rental real estate interests, the politically powerful California Apartment Association and affiliated groups have yet to report any spending in Oakland, instead funneling more than $1.5 million into other Bay Area rent control races.
San Mateo and Burlingame residents are boasting some pretty valuable votes this election as more than $1 million has been raised and spent to win them over in a heated battle regarding rent control.
Thursday marked the deadline for advocates on both sides to submit campaign finance forms that revealed large amounts of money are being funneled into these two relatively small-city elections. San Mateo’s Measure Q and Burlingame’s Measure R have garnered significant attention from donors across the country and at home.
The Sebastopol City Council, worried about pre-emptive rent hikes as it embarks on a study of tenant protection measures expected to last weeks or months, will consider adopting an emergency moratorium Tuesday that would temporarily cap rent increases at about 3 percent a year.
The emergency proposal would require four of five council members to vote for approval. If adopted, it would take effect immediately for 45 days, with the possibility of successive time extensions totaling two years altogether.