A petition to overturn rent control in Santa Rosa collected enough valid signatures from voters to bring the city’s ordinance to a halt, the Sonoma County Registrar of Voters has confirmed.
On Friday, Oct. 14, election officials certified that 9,355 valid signatures had been collected, more than the 8,485 signatures required to stop the city’s rent control and just-cause-for-eviction ordinance.
“The city’s rent control ordinance would have long-lasting, damaging effects on Santa Rosa property owners and renters,” said Tom Bannon, CEO of the California Apartment Association. “The City Council approved rent control in haste, disregarding the negative aspects of the policy, as well as sensible solutions to the region’s housing crisis.”
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