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I had some other concerns with the details of the split-roll initiative in this thread:
Fundamentally, though, the biggest fault of Prop 13 is with its taxation of residential property. It encourages empty-nesters to stay in homes that are too big, and more generally prevents the younger generation from getting reasonable housing in much of California.
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Or the result could be something like politico.com/story/2008/08/r…
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At least, that's certainly how it looks to me. There may be some restrictions based on the "fair rate of return" wording, but it's not clear to me how those would be interpreted in courts (or what other pieces of California law they would invoke).
There are different sorts of things called "rent control" in different places (consider old NYC "rent controlled" vs "rent stabilized" where the latter is like SF's "rent control") -- but yes, this allows cities to regulate initial rents.
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Not sure which "one" and "other" you mean, but:
Prop 10 allows cities to set *initial* rents. So a city that wants to block rental housing could just say that one bedroom apartments rent for $500/month, etc., which would make it no longer worthwhile to build rental buildings.
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I've been thinking this week about Proposition 10, the statewide initiative on California's November ballot to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. I just published medium.com/@ldavidbaron/mixe… explaining why I've decided I'm against it.
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After final sign-off by the Senate this morning, the Legislature has now sent my bill reforming how California sets housing goals for cities - requiring goals based on actual need - to the Governor. Thank you colleagues! #SB828
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The "I can pronounce that bit but have no idea what it means" and "I have some idea of what that other bit means but no idea how to pronounce it" problem.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a landmark bill to overhaul the state’s money-bail system yesterday. Here’s the full story, icymi. lat.ms/2wn0Xtc #caleg #SB10
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They served in the army, the border patrol and the police. They have official US birth certificates. But the government is denying their passport applications and telling them they aren't American citizens. washingtonpost.com/world/the…
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An argument I heard about Prop 10 (Costa-Hawkins repeal) is that cities like San Francisco could have (but haven't) moved their 1979 rent control threshold up to 1995, so are unlikely to do so after repeal. Now I wonder if that's legal per leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f… 1954.52 (a)(2)?
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If only we could get the law to require that goverments consider the specific, adverse impacts of *denying* housing (rather than only think about the harm caused by *approving* it).
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After much debate & months of work, our bill #AB2923 to increase affordable housing near BART stations is on its way to @JerryBrownGov's desk! TY @AsmGrayson @NPHANC @CA_Bldg_Trades @josefow & all who made this happen!
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