As promised, @AIDSHealthcare has filed a new potential 2020 rent control ballot initiative oag.ca.gov/system/files/init…. On my first reading, the initiative would: * Allow rent control on buildings older than 15 years * Exempt owners of two or fewer homes * Allow for vacancy controls
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Seems to allow vacancy control provided that the landlord is allowed at least a 15% increase across the vacancy. Also forbids the legislature from fixing problems with the law, if, say, exclusionary cities use it to set rents to 0 to discourage rental housing...

Apr 19, 2019 · 9:07 PM UTC

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To be fair, setting to zero would never stand. But yes, cities would abuse.