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Ab 1482 – Tenant Protection Act And Its Impacts On Tenants, Landlords, And The Broader Housing Market, Ava Lau

GGU Law Review Blog

With housing shortages and rent steadily increasing, many long-time tenants are in favor of passing rent control laws. Advocates argue that rent control offers many benefits, including providing security for tenants against rising rents, providing affordable housing to tenants, and protecting vulnerable tenants from displacement. Its benefits include allowing tenants to achieve better financial stability, keeping families in their homes, and preventing working-class tenants, seniors, and vulnerable members of society from being priced out of their long-time residences and neighborhoods. Without rent control, lower-income tenants would have difficulty securing and keeping a home. At the same time, landlords benefit from …

The Right To Housing: Possessing Home In California, Golden Gate University School Of Law

GGU Law Review Blog

In an area where the median home costs $820,000, San Francisco’s Bay Area is currently experiencing an affordable housing crisis. Unsurprisingly 25,951 people lack stable housing in the Bay Area. A recent Brookings Institute income inequality study ranked the San Francisco metropolitan area (including San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin Counties) the third highest in income inequality in the United States. In the Bay Area, where the median fair market rate for a two bedroom apartment is $3,121, the highest earners were making eleven times more than the lowest.

Among those most affected by the rising rents are minority …

More Housing Near Public Transit: Relocating The Bay Area’S Poor, Maneesha Birdee

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Housing discrepancy, coupled with an environmental push set in place a decade ago to reduce car-based greenhouse gas emissions, propelled a housing and public transportation bill. Senator Scott Weiner, along with Senator Nancy Skinner and Assembly Member Phil Ting, created Senate Bill 827 (“Bill”). The Bill proposes building denser housing near public transportation, thereby allowing more people to live close to their jobs. The Bill was introduced in January 2018 and sparked feverous debate over California housing. It was amended two times—once in March 2018 and once in April 2018. Two weeks after its April amendment, in a lively senate …

Density, Affordable Housing And Social Inclusion: Modest Proposal For Cape Town, Colin Crawford

Publications

What I would like to offer in this short article are some thoughts about ways Cape Town might benefit from lessons in the United States' long and still continuing struggle with racially segregated housing and to do so by promoting strategies that are not only inclusionary in aim but also more environmentally sustainable if developed properly. I do this in part from the conviction that this is a benefit of any comparative legal scholarship - to suggest different ways of looking at problems. In this, I will particularly examine density-focused incentives. Indeed, incentive-based practices, it seems to me, might have …

2015-2016 Legislative Summary, Assembly Committee On Housing And Community Development

California Agencies

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Urban Decay, Austerity, And The Rule Of Law, Brent T. White

Publications

Detroit has failed and its infrastructure is crumbling. But Detroit is not an isolated case. It is a paradigmatic example of increasing urban decay across the United States. While commentators have warned that the declining state of the country's infrastructure threatens U.S. prosperity, there is a bigger issue at stake. Decaying urban environments jeopardize the rule of law, undermining the very foundation of the social contract. This Article shows that the strength of the rule of law in a given country can be predicted by that government's ability (or inability) to provide public services-particularly, a livable urban environment. When urban …

Annual Report 2012-2013: Gearing Up, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Annual Report 2011-2012: Building Bridges, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Unlawful Detainer Pilot Program: Report To The California Legislature, California Research Bureau

California Agencies

Renters who remain at a property when they no longer have a legal right to reside at the location may be sued for unlawful detainer. Most often, an unlawful detainer is filed against a renter who is no longer paying rent but continues to occupy a residence. A person may also be the subject of an unlawful detainer if they commit or allow the commission of illegal activity at a rental property. The Los Angeles City Attorney developed the pilot programs under review in this report to "surgically remove" unlawful detainers who were contributing to illegal activities as a method …

Annual Report 2010-2011: Changing With The Times, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Take This House And Shove It: The Emotional Drivers Of Strategic Default, Brent T. White

Publications

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The Morality Of Strategic Default, Brent T. White

Publications

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Underwater And Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear, And The Social Management Of The Housing Crisis, Brent T. White

Publications

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Annual Report 2009-2010: Opening Doors, Funding Possibilities, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Unlawful Detainer Pilot Program, Administrative Office Of The Courts

California Agencies

Under the general framework of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 11570–11587), one of the key provisions of the pilot program is the additional authority granted to city attorneys and city prosecutors to file unlawful detainer (UD) actions against any tenants who are engaged in illegal drug activities. By establishing this program, the Legislature hoped that city attorneys would be able to deal with drug nuisance problems in the community more effectively if property owners, out of safety concerns or other considerations, are unwilling to file unlawful detainer actions to evict offending tenants.

In 2004, AB …

Annual Report 2008-2009: New Directions, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Annual Report 2007-2008: Where Home Means Everything, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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How Population Growth Estimates Affect Housing Market Projections, California Research Bureau

California Agencies

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Annual Report 2004-2005: Re: Solutions, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Annual Report 2002-2003: Growing Affordability, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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What Explains Crowding In California?, California Research Bureau

California Agencies

Crowding (defined as more than one person per room) has been rising in California. The average household size (number of persons in the household) has increased as well. A number of observers believe that this increase in household size reflects a rise in crowding in response to the lack of affordable housing. Concerns about whether new building construction was enough for the increased demand posed by California's growing population, emerged with the housing market conditions of the late 1990s. Annual housing production in the 1990s fell well below that of the 1980s, and lagged the growth in new jobs and …

Audited Financial Statements 2000-2001, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Annual Report 1999-2000: Twenty-Five Years Of Housing Californians, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Audited Financial Statements 1999-2000, California Housing Finance Agency

California Agencies

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Housing Element Law: A Summary Report From The Interim Hearing, Senate Committee On Local Government

California Senate

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Local Government Mobilehome And Mobilehome Park Policies In California, Department Of Housing And Community Development

California Agencies

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Development Fees In The San Francisco Bay Area: An Update, Association Of Bay Area Governments

California Agencies

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Hearing On Senate Resolution No. 35 (Nielsen) - Cal-Vet Loan Funding, Senate Committee On Governmental Organization

California Senate

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California Farmworkers Housing Assistance Plan, 1977, Department Of Housing And Community Development

California Agencies

Pursuant to its duties under Health and Safety Code Section 41125, the Commission of Housing and Community Development hereby refers the California Statewide Housing Plan, 1977 (which includes the Farmworker Housing Assistance Plan, reproduced in a separate volume) to the Legislature for review, revision, and adoption.

The Plan was prepared by the Department of Housing and Community Development, in conjunction with the Business and Transportation Agency. The Department and the Commission of Housing and Community Development jointly held extensive public hearings on drafts of the Plan. Private industry, local government, and other state agencies provided substantial and valuable input into …

Rent Control: An Interim Report To The Assembly Committee On Housing And Community Development, Assembly Committee On Housing And Community Development

California Assembly

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