May 25, 2017

Time for the Promised Discussion In the City of Beverly Hills, the City Council implemented a draconian and poorly thought out emergency rent control ordinance which was solidified by City council in late February. Tenant rent increases are limited to a maximum of 3% annually and  requires a payment of relocation fees to [...]

By |2017-06-08T15:56:13-07:00May 25th, 2017|Beverly Hills, Local Updates, Stories|

May 25, 2017

Keep Marijuana Smoke out of Multi Family Housing! On Saturday, June 3, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at Culver City Hall, the Culver City Marijuana Task Force will be convening. The Marijuana Task Force was created by City Council in response to the passage of California Proposition 64. Its goal is to [...]

By |2017-06-08T16:01:25-07:00May 25th, 2017|Culver City, Local Updates, Stories|

County Introduces Motion of Concern

County Introduces Motion of Concern The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors introduced a motion which all members should take note of. Supervisor Hilda Solis put forth a request for a report back to analyze  the local government's’ ability to regulate the private rental market and convene a Tenant Protections Working Group to [...]

By |2017-06-08T21:24:42-07:00May 24th, 2017|Local Updates, Stories|

Sacramento Update: May 22, 2017

This Week: The house of origin deadline is June 2nd. As it approaches, we are hopeful several problematic bills will die, or if they continue to move, they be fixed by amendments. As far as priorities go, we have been focused on the Ellis Act bills now that the attempted to repeal Costa-Hawkins [...]

By |2017-05-25T16:15:40-07:00May 24th, 2017|Sacramento News|

Sacramento Update! May 5th

This Week Now that Costa-Hawkins has been shelved for the year, we have been focusing on the many other troubling bills for AAGLA. Two at the top of the list are AB 982 and AB 1505 both authored by Assemblymember Bloom. Yes, the same author that introduced AB 1506 to repeal Costa-Hawkins. It's [...]

By |2017-05-08T23:43:01-07:00May 8th, 2017|Sacramento News|