California will vote in 2024 on whether to allow statewide rent control after proponents gathered more than 800,000 signatures. The state already has one version of rent control, but it doesn't ...

Assemblyman Jaime Eduardo Cantón Rocha has proposed a reform to the Civil Code aimed at regulating housing rent increases in ...

Under Costa-Hawkins, California cities cannot impose rent control on housing built after Feb. 1, 1995, or on single-family homes or separately owned multifamily units like condos.

Simon-Weisberg’s story is common in California, where an affordable housing crisis has spun out of control. Rent control policy in the state remains restricted by the controversial Costa-Hawkins ...

Rent control battle in California heats up, opposing investors pump money. Developers opposed to repeal of Costa-Hawkins Act have raised more than $124m in California.

YIMBYs argue that he would use rent control laws like Prop. 33, if passed, to circumvent California’s affordable housing mandates by setting unreasonably low rent caps designed to stifle new ...

Every election cycle in California, a handful of ballot initiatives emerge as the most contentious. In 2024, one of these is Proposition 33, which proposes to remove state limits on local rent ...

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 Act.

The California Apartment Association and the No on Prop 33 coalition issued a flyer listing possible outcomes, including an expansion of rent control to cities that don't already have it and a ...

Behind the evolution of rent control’s politics. Pushes to overturn state bans on rent control have been mostly futile across the nation, but have gained traction recently in Illinois and California ...

Rent control is not only counterproductive, but now we see again that it’s a political dead end. Advocates should stop pushing failed ballot measures and embrace constructive approaches if they ...

Rent control is not only counterproductive, but now we see again that it’s a political dead end. Advocates should stop pushing failed ballot measures and embrace constructive approaches if they ...