When: February 16, 2024
Where: Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles
What:
Ensuring Housing Stability: Adopting, Expanding, and Enforcing Rent Control Across California
The housing affordability crisis has renewed interest in rent control and rent stabilization throughout California and across the country. This presentation will provide an overview of rent control and eviction protections, their history and legal underpinning, how regulations are administered and enforced, and recent efforts to expand these protections.
Moderators:
- Elaine Zhong, Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles
- Dion O’Connell, Deputy City Attorney, Pasadena
Panelists:
- Jonathan Holub, Executive Director, Santa Monica Rent Control Agency
- Faizah Malik, Managing Attorney, Community Development Project, Public Counsel
- Alison Regan, General Counsel, Santa Monica Rent Control Board
- Karen M. Tiedemann, Partner, Goldfarb Lipman
Providing Affordable Housing in California: How It Happens
There is a general consensus that more affordable housing units are needed in California and a host of new laws are designed to streamline the approval process. But how do these projects actually come to fruition? This panel will explore how developers select sites and target markets for affordable projects, different means of financing/subsidizing these projects, the impact of recent changes in state planning law and the role of cities in providing affordable housing.
Moderator:
- Rob Ewing, City Attorney, Danville
Panelists:
- David Aghaei, Principal and Co-Founder, Eleos
- William Huang, Housing Director, City of Pasadena
- Ann Silverberg, Chief Executive Officer, Related California, Nor Cal Affordable and Northwest Divisions
- Thomas Webber, Partner, Goldfarb Lipman