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The Mountain View City Council is eyeing a potential ballot measure that would make changes to the city’s rent control law.
It’s unclear, however, what changes would be included in the potential measure – and whether they could make the city’s rent control ordinance even worse.
City staff has suggested the council might explore asking voters to bolster its rent control law with a rent registry, vacancy control for landlord-caused tenancy terminations, new noticing requirements, and possible limits on how housing providers share utility costs with renters.
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An economics professor has concluded that a proposed rent control program in Pacifica could cost the city $2 million each year to implement.
Tom Means, a professor of economics at San Jose State University, shared this conclusion in an analysis of Measure C, the rent control proposal appearing on November’s ballot in Pacifica. Means, who serves on Mountain View’s newly formed Rental Housing Committee, prepared his report for the Coalition for Housing Equality.
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A judge is now considering whether Mountain View’s rent control law will remain on hold while a legal challenge from the California Apartment Association works its way toward trial.
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