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By The Times Editorial Board In California, about 55% of renters pay more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. That makes them “rent-burdened,” according to experts. More than a quarter paid over half their income on rent — making them severely burdened. For decades, some cities and counties have used rent control to cap yearly increases on […]

The promise of aggressive rent control alleviating the pressure of California’s housing crisis is seductive. It almost certainly will not happen under Prop 33 It’s no secret that California has a housing affordability crisis.  Seventy-two percent of renters say that the cost of housing puts at least some strain on them and their families, according to […]

By The Editorial Board | opinion@scng.com Here they go again. Left-wing activists in 2018 and 2020 tried to convince Californians to support a statewide initiative that would usher in the most extreme rent-control measures imaginable. Despite the state’s Democratic political tilt, voters wisely rejected this poison – by 19 and 20 points respectively. The same controversial group, the AIDS Healthcare […]

For the third time in recent years, state voters are being asked to expand cities’ and counties’ power to control rent. Proposition 33, the latest such measure to make the ballot thanks to the deep pockets of its sponsors, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, would repeal a state law that says local rent control laws can’t be […]

California’s decades-long failure to build affordable and middle-class housing has created a crisis that has left renters feeling like second-class citizens. The question is whether abandoning state rent control laws for different solutions in each California city is the answer. It is not. That’s why Proposition 33 makes no sense and deserves a no-vote.  Prop. […]

California voters will be asked this fall to expand rent control with a statewide ballot measure similar to ones they wisely rejected in 2018 and 2020. Supply-and-demand economic principles today are the same as they were six years ago. “Rent is high in California because the state does not have enough housing for everyone who wants to live here,” […]

Proposition 33 would eliminate an existing law that limits the ability of local governments to control residential rent increases. It would lift rent control limits established in the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Affordable housing advocates are divided on whether voter passage of Proposition 33 will relieve or exacerbate California’s current housing crisis. Overall, renters […]

California voters will be asked this fall to expand rent control with a statewide ballot measure similar to ones they rejected in 2018 and 2020 by 19 and 20 points respectively. The same controversial group, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, apparently has money to burn and is back with a similar measure. Like previous ones, Proposition […]

BY NICOLE NIXON Officials who manage tax revenues in three counties came out against Proposition 33 on Tuesday, a ballot measure that seeks to repeal rules prohibiting rent control for much of California’s housing stock. The officials from Alameda, San Diego and Riverside counties warned in an exclusive statement to The Sacramento Bee that if approved, […]

Workers say state housing freeze would hurt California families, limit housing and cut construction jobs IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 18, 2024Contact: Nathan Clicknathan@click-comms.com SACRAMENTO –  The California State Council of Laborers, the largest construction trade union in California, representing more than 75,000 hardworking union construction workers, urged California voters to reject Proposition 33, the measure on the upcoming ballot that would […]