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Board President’s Message
BOARD PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Welcome to 2022: Ballot Proposals You
Should Be Concerned About
WBy Cheryl Turner, President of the Board of Directors
elcome to 2022. With the start of the legislative session, we have many new bills to review and report to you. We will continue to provide you with the latest updates on legislation that might impact you throughout the year.
We are continuing to address the immediate problem of the City of Los Angeles’ eviction moratorium and rent increase freeze through our lawsuit against the City. Our lawsuit reaches pending at the United States Supreme Court where we recently filed our Petition Brief for Certiorari. As many of you are aware, only a few cases are ultimately accepted to receive a full hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court, so it is our hope that our case will receive the full consideration it deserves. The highest court in the land must stop the City’s unconstitutional interference with our rental agreements that prevents us from collecting rent, interferes with our right to receive promised rent increases, and prohibits us from taking legal action to collect rent that we are legally entitled to receive.
Nearly two years have passed since the City (and other jurisdictions) issued its emergency declaration. No hearings were ever held, and no discovery was ever conducted to determine whether the City’s actions were necessary or justified. At some point, common sense must rule. We continue to state our position that the moratorium should end at City Council meetings every month, and thus far, only Council Members Joe Buscaino, Paul Krekorian and John Lee have voted to end the City’s moratorium.
You should have received various emails from us and our State lobbyist, Kate Bell, notifying you about a number of new bills proposed by the State Legislature that we are addressing and that you should know about. You should also have received our notices about some of the ballot measures and referendum that
are being proposed for the upcoming election. Ballot proponents are currently circulating petitions to collect signatures to qualify their measures to be placed on the ballot this year. If these proposed ballot measures pass, they are likely to have severe impacts on your property rights and taxes. We want you to be aware of these measures right now so that you will be informed should you ever be asked to sign petitions in support of these measures qualifying them for the ballot at the upcoming election. These proposed ballot initiatives are in summary:
LOCAL LAND-USE AND ZONING LAWS OVERRIDE CONFLICTING STATE LAWS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
This measure would provide that city and county land-use, zoning laws, and local housing laws can override nearly all conflicting state laws. This measure would allow the override of Senate Bills 9 and 10, for example, which would permit the building, in most cases, of multifamily housing in single-family zone areas, but it would also potentially allow local override of important statewide rental protections such as the Ellis Act and the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Our Association will certainly oppose this proposed ballot initiative.
INCREASESHOMEOWNERS’REALPROPERTYTAXEXEMPTION AND PROVIDES FOR SUPPLEMENTAL RENTERS’ TAX CREDIT. INCREASES TAXES ON HIGH-VALUE PROPERTIES. AND LIMITS LOCAL RESTRICTIONS ON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE.
If passed, this proposed iniative would increase the portion of a homeowner’s property value that is exempt or homesteaded from property tax, from $7,000 currently to $200,000 (adjusted for inflation) and it provides up to $2,000 supplemental income tax credit for renters (adjusted for inflation) ($4,000 for married
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