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The Sacramento Update
• Assembly Bill 2469 (Wicks) - Rent Registry - Would have imposed a statewide a rent registry to collect information from landlords including, the address and owners of a rental property, the number and type of rooms in the rental property, and information related to the payments collected and the duration of tenancies when a lease is initiated, altered, or terminated.
• Assembly Bill 2710 (Kalra) – Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (T.O.P.A.) - This bill would have, among other things, required a landlord to notify each tenant and qualified entity the intent to sell the property and would provide the qualified entity with 10 days to notify the property owner of their interest in purchasing the property and further provide an entity with either 60 days or 40 days, depending on the number of units of the property, to submit an offer to purchase the property.
For the remainder of May, fiscal bills will need to be passed by the Appropriations Committee on or before May 20, 2022,
and all bills will need to pass on an Assembly floor vote by May 27, 2022. We have many remaining “priority” bills on our list that we are either opposing or supporting, including our sponsored bill, Assembly Bill 916 (Salas), which will streamline construction of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and is being referred to the Senate Housing Committee in the coming weeks. Additionally, there are several high priority bills that we are opposing: Assembly Bill 2050 (Lee) – “Ellis Act” that would impose restrictions on owners who seek to remove properties from the rental market, and Assembly Bill 2713 (Wicks) – “Just Cause Evictions” which would replace restrictions on evictions for “owner occupancy.”
Rent Assistance Update
As previously announced by the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles, the rent assistance application portal, “Housing is Key,” is now closed and approximately $3.1 billion has been paid out in rental assistance throughout the state. For more information on the rental assistance program, please visit https://housing.ca.gov/.
Kate Bell, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kate Bell Strategies was most recently a Partner of Capitol Advocacy, which is ranked among California’s top lobbying firms. Ms. Bell’s firm specializes in lobbying, strategic planning, coalition building, budget advocacy, procurement, and political involvement. Kate Bell Strategies and Capitol Advocacy represent the interests of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles through its affiliation with the California Rental Housing Association. Both firms are based in Sacramento. For more information, please visit www.katebellstrategies.com
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