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The 29-year-old law prohibits cities from setting rent control on single-family homes or apartments built after 1995. Prop 33, if it passes on Nov. 2024, would repeal Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing ...
Proposition 33, titled Expands Local Governments’ Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property, and also marketed as the "Justice for Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
Over the last fifty years, out of a total of 482 California cities, [121] perhaps two-dozen have enacted rent control ordinances, or lesser laws. A city may later discontinue its rent control, e.g., Santa Rosa voted to repeal its new rent control law in 2017. [122] [123] [124] This survey was completed circa October 2018.
November 6, 2024 at 1:15 AM. (Los Angeles Times) An effort to allow stronger rent control laws in California was trailing in early returns Tuesday, the third time such a measure may be turned down ...
This is the third failed ballot initiative sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) that would have loosened or repealed California's state-level limits on rent control. Prop. 33 could ...
Rent regulation is a system of laws for the rental market of dwellings, with controversial effects on affordability of housing and tenancies. Generally, a system of rent regulation involves: Price controls, limits on the rent that a landlord may charge, typically called rent control or rent stabilization. Eviction controls: codified standards ...
"Strong" or "vacancy control" rent control laws were in effect in five California cities (West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Berkeley, East Palo Alto, and Cotati) in 1995, when AB 1164 (known as the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act) preempted some elements of municipal rent control ordinances and eliminated strong rent-control in California (except ...
More California cities enact rent control to protect tenants, upsetting apartment owners. Bell Gardens resident Monchis Curiel was notified in June 2021 that her rent would go from $1,200 a month ...