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California Apartment Association is gearing up for another campaign to keep
radical forms of rent control out of California.
Once again,
anti-housing crusader Michael Weinstein is using the initiative process in an
attempt to resurrect the radical rent control policies of the 1970s – policies
that would place homes further out of reach for seniors and working families
and exacerbate California’s homelessness crisis.
At a series of rallies Thursday, Weinstein and other tenant activists announced they had enough signatures to qualify their latest radical rent control measure for the November 2020 ballot.
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Less than six months after Proposition 10 went down in crushing defeat, Michael Weinstein is again attempting to return extreme forms of rent control to California, a move that would decimate the supply of housing for California’s working families.
On Friday, Weinstein filed preliminary paperwork with the state attorney general to place another statewide initiative before voters, aiming for the 2020 ballot.
According to initial paperwork filed with California Attorney General’s Office, the new initiative seeks to create the Rental Affordability Act. Under this measure, cities and counties would be free to impose rent control on buildings after they turn… Read More
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pair of bills that would greatly expand rent control in California will get
their first test in the state Legislature next week.
On Thursday, April 25, the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development will hold special hearings on AB 1482, which would apply rent control to every unit in California, and AB 36, which would weaken California’s Costa-Hawkins Act, allowing cities and counties to expand local rent control laws to single-family homes and newer construction.
Thanks largely to a campaign led by the California Apartment Association, voters in the Nov. 6 election overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 10, the statewide ballot measure that would have repealed the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and brought extreme forms of rent control back to the state.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, 61.7 percent of voters rejected Prop 10, while 38.3 percent voted to approve the measure.
“The stunning margin of victory shows California voters clearly understood the negative impacts Prop 10 would have on the availability of affordable and middle-class housing in our state,” said Tom Bannon, chief executive officer… Read More
In a poll released this week, a statewide ballot measure that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act continued to trail by a wide margin.
The final pre-election Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll, published Wednesday, indicated that 60 percent of likely voters oppose Proposition 10, while 35 percent support the measure, and 5 percent are undecided.
“This poll mirrors public and private polling that shows voters clearly understand that Prop 10 is a flawed measure that would worsen California’s affordable housing crisis, reducing property values and freezing the construction of housing for low- and middle-income families that we desperately… Read More
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A newly released paper by a UC Berkeley economist explores how repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act could drive down property values and erode tax money for school districts and local communities.
The paper, “The Case for Preserving Costa-Hawkins: How Rent Control Reduces Property Values, Hurts Small Businesses and Limits State and Local Tax Revenue,” was authored by Kenneth T. Rosen, chairman of UC Berkeley’s Fisher Center and chairman and founder of Rosen Consulting Group.
If California voters approve Proposition 10 and overturn Costa-Hawkins in the Nov. 6 election, cities and counties will once again be authorized to adopt extreme… Read More
The passage of Proposition 10 could invite radical activists to circumvent elected leaders and pursue extreme rent control measures through the initiative process.
That’s the takeaway from a news release issued this week by the No on Prop 10 campaign.
Proponents of Prop 10, a measure on the Nov. 6 statewide ballot that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, argue the measure would simply give city and county officials more freedom to pass rent control policies.
In reality, it would transfer power to local activists seeking to restrict new development, even if it hurts tenants and homeowners, say local… Read More
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The first pair of TV and digital advertisements opposing Proposition 10 have arrived.
Californians for Responsible Housing today released two, 30-second spots opposing Prop 10, the November ballot measure that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and bring extreme forms of rent control back to California.
The ads, accessible here and at the bottom of this article, feature affordable housing experts who say of that Prop. 10 “makes a bad problem worse” and does “the opposite of what it promises.”
Without Costa-Hawkins, California cities and counties could once again adopt extreme forms of rent control, including the imposition of… Read More
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Affordable housing advocates have joined a growing list of opponents to a measure that would overturn the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
The California Council for Affordable Housing and the California Housing Consortium are now part of a growing list of opponents to Proposition 10, the ballot measure going before voters in November that would repeal Costa-Hawkins and return extreme forms of rent control to California.
If voters approve Prop 10 and overturn Costa-Hawkins, cities will be authorized to apply rent control to single-family homes and new multifamily housing. They’ll also be able to make rent caps permanent, even after changes… Read More
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The California Apartment Association is pleased that the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California has joined efforts to defeat Proposition 10, which would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and bring extreme forms of rent control back to California.
The CAA-sponsored campaign committee to defeat Prop. 10, Californians For Responsible Housing, issued a press release today announcing that the Building Trades Council, one of the most powerful labor groups in the state, has joined several other important statewide organizations in voicing opposition to the Costa-Hawkins repeal measure. Prop. 10 would create a major disincentive for investors to build… Read More
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