The Richmond City Council on Tuesday lacked the necessary votes to ban rent increases from now until November’s citywide vote on rent control.
Pro-rent control council members in the city pushed for an emergency moratorium on rent increases as a stopgap measure leading up to Election Day. This pro-rent control bloc, however, lacked the supermajority needed to enact the emergency measure.
Richmond is one of five cities in the Bay Area with tenant-driven rent control initiatives in the Nov. 8 election. The other cities with rent control and just-cause-eviction measures on the ballot include Mountain View, Alameda, San Mateo and Burlingame. The California Apartment Association is campaigning to defeat the rent control measures in each of these cities, and its Issues Committee is running a lineup of TV and radio ads.
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