Legislative Update - August 8, 2024

SCRHA Advocacy Continues as Legislature Returns from Summer Recess
The State legislature returned to work this week after a month-long summer break. While there will be some policy committee hearings, most bills are in Appropriations Committee or on the floor of the Assembly or Senate. SCRHA has fought off most of the bad bills that came forward this year, but a few remain. SCRHA’s focus will be on AB 2801 (Friedman) which would alter the law on the return of security deposits and require photos at move-in and move-out, and AB 2747 (Haney) which would require that housing providers offer tenants the option of having positive rental payments reported to a consumer reporting agency. Make sure you signed up for SCRHA Action Alerts so you can make your voice heard on these bills. Click here if you missed the previous update on SCRHA’s legislative wins!

Leave No Veteran Homeless: Housing Providers & Units Needed
Veterans Village of San Diego will be holding their annual Stand Down event August 9-11. Local Housing Authorities will be on-hand on August 9 and 10, from 10 AM - 3 PM to share information with rental housing providers about the Landlord Incentive Program. The event will be held at 2400 Euclid Avenue, National City, CA 91950. Click here to RSVP. Click here to list available units.

ICYMI:

• Opinion: Don’t Force San Diego Landlords to Become the ‘Smoking Police’ (by SCRHA’s Alan Pentico)
• Renting populace increases three times more than home owners
• California rent control back on the ballot, twice
• City looks for public feedback on waste collection fee proposal
• Rest of Palm Springs’ homeless navigation center to open in September
• Court of Appeals Reverses Dismissal of NAA Eviction Moratorium Lawsuit
• Harris’ Misguided Rent Control Proposal