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Meeting Minutes from May 13, 2024 Membership Meeting
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We will also be joining the Justice for Renters Act rent control ballot measure campaign for an in-person event at the conference on Friday, May 17 in San Diego, 10:15pm-midnight.
May 7, 2024 Newsletter
Make Calls for Endorsed Legislation
Many of our bills are currently in the Appropriations Committee or headed to a floor vote now.
Please call your Assemblymember about the following priority bills
AB 2216 - Right to have a dog, cat, or other common household pet. Bans pet rent for new leases
AB 2304 - Seals all eviction records where the tenant wins the case. Currently only some cases are sealed.
AB 2347 - Extends the time a tenant has to respond to an eviction filing from 5 to 10 business days.
AB 2493 - Bans landlords from charging additional application fees if tenant is applying to another property they own/manage within 30 days. Also prohibits charging fees to get on a waitlist.
AB 2801 - Requires landlords to photograph and itemize any damage that is to be deducted from an outgoing tenant's security deposit.
AB 2881 - Social Housing - creates social housing agency
AB 3107 - Community Micro-grids.
Please call your Senators about the following priority bills:
SB 1201 - LLC Transparency - requires disclosure of owners owning 10% or more of an LLC
SB 1374 - Restores Net Metering for rooftop solar on apartments, schools, farms, and other properties with multiple electric meters.
AB 846 - Limits rent increases in affordable housing funded by the LIHTC program
AB 1657 - Affordable Housing Bond
January 15, 2024 Newsletter
Meet Yesenia Miranda Meza, our new Southern Vice Chair
Yesenia has been appointed to the board to fill the vacant Southern Vice Chair position. She co-founded the tenants rights group Pomona United for Stable Housing and has been organizing in her community for years. You can learn more about her here.
New Research Shows what Tenants have always known: High Rents & Evictions are Bad for Health
Research funded by the National Institute of Health have found that both high rent burdens and evictions led to significant increases to the death rate at all ages. A 10 percent increase in the rent burden (for example, someone going from paying 30 percent of income in rent to 40 percent of income) causes an 8% increase in the death rate, and evictions caused a 40% increase in the death rate.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953623007554?via%3Dihub#sec2
Jennifer Esteen Campaign Events
Jennifer is our endorsed candidate for Alameda County Supervisor District 4. As there are only 2 people running, this election will be decided in March - there is no runoff in November.
There are several events you can sign up for right now, including in-person canvasses and online phonebanks, at https://www.jenniferesteen.com/volunteer
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