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Inside this issue: Ballot Measure Supported by Democratic Party; Affordable Housing Measure on Nov Ballot; Santa Cruz Mayor on Rent Control Measure; State Gears Up for Big Prop 10 Battle; Chronicle Ed. Board: Housing Emergency; In a Nutshell; Monthly Meeting Info... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Concord Apt. Fire Was Arson; Oakland Legal Victory for Landlords; UCB Housing Plans & People's Park; Remembering Dave Arnold; June Member Meeting Info; Is This the End of the Ability to Evict?; CA Landlords Dumping Properties... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Half Moon Bay Considers Rent Control; Ballot Measure Possible for Sacramento; CAL Move-Out Day 2018; LA Increasingly Out of Reach for the Young; May Member Meeting Info; Why Bay Area Rents are So High; New Film Tells the Story of Kelo Decision... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Berkeley Way Project & Affordable Housing; Santa Monica to Consider RC Reform; Governor's Race: Candidates & Rent Control; Area Rents on the Rise Again; Berkeley Requires Distribution of New Form; New State Law Put to Test in Berkeley; Monthly Meeting Info... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Rent Control Ballot Measure Likely; Rent Control Push Spreading Across US; Housing Shortage Report; Oakland Council Passes Relocation Payments; Monthly Meeting Notice; Therapy Peacocks; Important Schedule B Notice... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: SF Rent Control Study; Hayward's Housing Woes; Costa-Hawkins Repeal Fails to Advance; Rent Control Initiative in Santa Cruz; Berkeley Mayor on Wiener-Skinner; Monthly Meeting for January.. Continue Reading
Inside this issue: SF "Right to Counsel"; Rent Control Defies Basic Economics; Trend? Rental Bidding Websites are Here; SF: Pass-through Charges Facing Resistance; Costa-Hawkins Repeal Update; Monthly Meeting for January... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Price-gouging Ban Controversy in Berkeley; Right to Counsel in SF Evictions; Can Spare Bedrooms Help Oakland?; Oakland Rent Control Loophole Closed; Santa Barbara Housing Compromise; Winter Dinner Announcement & Invitation; Bay Area Rents Still a Struggle for Many... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Bay Area Housing Pressures Continue; Renter Protection Plan Fizzles; Wildfires Raise Fears of "Mass Exodus"; 2018: Santa Crus Rent Control Campaign; Berkeley Tenant Buyouts: Update; Will the Bay Area Bubble Burst?; Members Meeting... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Haskel Street Development; High Incomes Drive Rents; Housing Crisis; Bedbugs; Massive Rent Hike Lawsuit; Mark Tarses; Members Meeting... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Source of Incone & Tenant Selection; Taxing Landlords with Vacant Units; Affordable Housing in El Cerrito; Fremont Isn't Ready for Rent Control; Ratio Billing Utility Systems; 83% of Bay Area Renters Plan to Leave; September Meeting Invitation; Washing Machines... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: McConnell on Alameda's Evictions Law; SF Eviction Law Defeated in Court; Consequences of Costa-Hawkins Repeal; Laws OK'd in SF, Rent Control in Richmond; Bay Area Rents Jump; Santa Monica Nixes "No to Section 8" Policies; Tenant Protections Unlikely in Oregon... Continue Reading
