California Apartment Association

The California Apartment Association is preparing to fight a rent control and just-cause eviction measure that qualified this week for the November ballot in Richmond.

The Contra Costa County Registrar of Voters on Tuesday, July 12, certified that rent control proponents collected a sufficient number of valid signatures to place the measure before voters in the general election.

The measure includes rent control based on the consumer price index, as well as a just-cause-for-eviction provision.

“Rent control is a failed policy that doesn’t work and provides little, if any, relief to the low-income families who need the so-called benefits of rent control most,” CAA told the East Bay Times. “Rent control policies do not make housing more affordable and do not do anything to encourage more housing construction.”

Richmond’s was the first of several rent control initiatives in the Bay Area to be certified for the November ballot. The second certification came Thursday night when officials approved the Mountain View rent control measure for the ballot. Still pending are rent control measures in San Mateo, Alameda and Burlingame.

CAA is attempting to thwart rent control in each of these cities.

Related content:

• Richmond voters to decide on rent control in November (East Bay Times, July 14)
• Rent control supporters submit signatures in San Mateo (CAA, June 29)