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The San Francisco Chronicle on Monday urged voters to reject Proposition 21, the extreme rent control measure on California’s Nov. 3 ballot.
With the Chronicle’s editorial, nearly every major newspaper in the state has now opposed the measure.
The editorial notes that “the case for rent control, overwhelmingly rejected by experts and refuted by research, might have seemed unlikely to grow weaker. And yet it has.”
The San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board points to the overwhelming defeat of Proposition 10, the nearly identical measure overwhelmingly rebuffed by voters in 2018.
“In the two years since Californians rejected the last attempt… Read More
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The CAA-led campaign to defeat Proposition 21 has released its first television advertisement against the extreme rent control measure on November’s ballot.
Titled “California Dream,” the 30-second television advertisement features Al Wong, a Bay Area small property owner whose parents were immigrants from Hong Kong. Wong’s message: Proposition 21 turns the California Dream of home ownership into a “nightmare.”
The ad comes from Californians for Responsible Housing, a campaign committee sponsored by the California Apartment Association aimed at defeating Prop 21.
In the ad, which will run on television in major markets throughout the state, Wong notes that Prop… Read More
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Newspapers across California continue to urge their readers to vote no on Proposition 21, the extreme rent control measure on the Nov. 3’s statewide ballot.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, California’s largest newspaper between San Francisco and the Oregon border, has become the latest newspaper to editorialize against the measure.
In an editorial headlined “No on 21: Rent control law won’t end housing crisis,” the newspaper notes the initiative will hurt both renters and homeowners while failing to address the root causes of affordable housing in California.
“There is one surefire way to make rentals more affordable: build more housing.… Read More
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California’s McClatchy newspapers — including the Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees — today joined a chorus of other news outlets urging voters to reject Proposition 21, the radical rent control measure on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Earlier this week, the Bakersfield Californian also editorialized against the measure.
Financed by Michael Weinstein and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Prop 21 threatens to bring back the extreme forms of rent control that proliferated in the 1970s.
“… under the rent control being proposed, the incentive to build market-rate units could disappear. That, in turn, could lead builders to avoid such projects, worsening the… Read More
Several of California’s large metro newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury News. the L.A. Daily News, and the Orange County Register, took a stand last week against Proposition 21, the radical rent control measure on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot.
Financed by Michael Weinstein and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the proposition threatens to bring back the extreme forms of rent control that proliferated in the 1970s.
On Thursday, Aug. 6, the Southern California News Group, which includes the Orange County Register, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Los Angeles Daily News and several other papers, urged readers to vote no on the measure.… Read More
Two of California’s leading senior citizen organizations announced this week their opposition to Proposition 21, the extreme rent control measure on November’s statewide ballot.
The Congress of California Seniors and the California Seniors Advocates League say Proposition 21 would make it more difficult for seniors to find affordable housing. The proposition would cause this by slowing the construction of new projects and reducing the number of properties on the market to rent. They also pointed to a report from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office that said Proposition 21would lower property values.
“Prop 21 provides no protections for seniors and would hurt… Read More
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The ballot arguments in favor of Proposition 21 — the extreme rent control measure on November’s statewide ballot — contain “false and misleading statements,” according to a lawsuit filed this week.
The suit, filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court, seeks to strike and revise three statements made by the Yes on 21 campaign.
The plaintiff is Los Angeles owner Malcolm Bennett; the defendants are Secretary of State Alex Padilla and the signers of the ballot and rebuttal arguments. The suit notes that state law expressly requires that statements made in such arguments not be false or misleading. The Yes on… Read More
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Proposition 21, the November ballot measure that would return extreme, 1970s-style rent control to California, could result in “a potential reduction in state and local revenues in the high tens of millions of dollars per year over time,” says the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
In a recently released report on the measure, the Legislative Analyst’s Office said “some landlords would sell their rental housing to new owners who would live there,” which would result in less affordable housing available to the state’s renters.
The office further noted that, if Proposition 21 were to become law “the value of rental housing… Read More
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The ballot arguments against Proposition 21 in the Nov. 3 voter guide will come from Californians for Responsible Housing, a campaign committee created by the California Apartment Association.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla
Secretary of State Alex Padilla selected the arguments from Californians for Responsible Housing last week, making it the official campaign of record against the extreme rent control proposition.
November’s election marks a second housing-policy showdown between Californians for Responsible Housing and anti-housing activist Michael Weinstein.
Two years ago, Weinstein used his AIDS Healthcare Foundation to bankroll a radical rent control measure that appeared on the November ballot… Read More
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Tom Bannon
In CAA’s sixth podcast, Tom Bannon, CAA’s chief executive officer, discusses the many problems with Proposition 21 — including its impact on small-scale landlords — and ways the rental housing industry can help defeat the proposal in November’s election.
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