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San Diego leaders adopted a countywide temporary rent cap Tuesday and new rules to make evictions more difficult for landlords during the pandemic.
The new ordinance takes effect in early June and lasts until sometime in August. Landlords under the new law can no longer evict tenants for “just cause” reasons, such as lease violations, and can only be removed if they are an “imminent health or safety threat.” This makes it one of the strictest anti-eviction laws in the state.
It also blocks a homeowner from moving back into their property and kicking a renter out, which is allowed now by law.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Milhaus, a national award-winning developer, owner and operator of class A, in-fill multi-family properties, announces today that Dave Brackett has been hired as Senior Vice President of Property Operations. Brackett has served in various investment management and oversight roles over the past 30 years and will use this experience to lead and grow Milhaus’ property management division.
Brackett recently served as Chief Executive Officer of Fashion Furniture Rental in San Diego, California. In that role, Dave oversaw all aspects of the company, helping grow revenues by over 30% in a five-year span. During the past year, he was also President of the International Furniture Rental Association (IFRA). Before his time at Fashion, Brackett served as Senior VP at The Irvine Company in Orange County, California, where he revamped and restructured their apartment operations while overseeing 40,000 units.
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Good morning. I’m Rachel Schnalzer, the L.A. Times Business section’s audience engagement editor. With the COVID-19 pandemic pushing people away from shared spaces for the last year, a minor home repair can feel urgent and an urgent home repair can feel like a catastrophe.
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Repair requests are common as many tenants spend the majority of their leisure time and, often, their workdays at home. “Everybody’s using the facilities at the same time, and things are going to pop up,” explains Fred Sutton, a senior vice president of public affairs with the
Residents Moving Out Of LA To Inland Empire, Causing Rents To Skyrocket Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) There has been a movement of residents from Los Angeles Metro to the Inland Empire so people can get more bang for their buck, but because of this trend, rents are drastically rising in the I.E.
“Now with the pandemic, not being able to go out, having dinners at home, you’re like, dang, my kitchen’s a lot smaller than I remember,” said Fontana resident Roberta Arias.
Arias says the pandemic made her family and friends reevaluate what they were getting for their money, and they were not alone.
Never Forget the Corporate Landlords Who Want All Your Money Details
AFFORDABLE HOUSING-As we head deeper into 2021, renters in California and across the nation should never forget the small but powerful group of corporate landlords who shelled out a staggering $66.5 million to kill the expansion of rent control in the Golden State.
Regardless of the financial devastation unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, they’ll keep opposing tenant protections no matter the consequences for the rest of us.
Big Real Estate was the driving force behind the defeat of Proposition 21, the November ballot measure that aimed to expand rent control in California. Overall, the real estate industry spent nearly $100 million to kill Prop 21, including king-sized contributions from Blackstone Group, billionaire Geoffrey Palmer, and millionaire Michael Hayde. In fact, Blackstone (led by billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, pictured above, left), Palmer, and Hayde slyly used