Rent Control – California Globe

L.A. County Board Of Supervisors Vote on Stricter Rent Caps in County Unincorporated Areas

June 6, 2024 1:34 pmJune 6, 2024 1:35 pm

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted this week to put into effect even stricter rent caps in place in unincorporated parts of the county, making them one step closer to setting rent increases to only 3% each year....

732,000 Letters Favoring Ballot Initiative to Increase Rent Control

October 25, 2023 2:30 amOctober 25, 2023 2:31 am

A group of California housing advocates, renters, lawmakers, and social justice organizations announced on Tuesday that they will be sending more than 732,000 letters to Governor Gavin Newsom to help convince him to support the upcoming 2024 statewide rent control...

We need more housing, not more rent control

September 21, 2023 2:23 pmSeptember 22, 2023 7:21 am

A progressive economist once said that “rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing.” But California is flirting with this policy wash-up nonetheless: An initiative that would sweep aside...

Statewide Rent Control Expansion Proposition Gets Enough Verified Signatures for 2024 Ballot

July 28, 2023 6:22 pmJuly 28, 2023 6:22 pm

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced on Thursday that enough signatures have been verified to place a statewide rent control expansion bill on the November 2024 ballot. Currently, only California and Oregon have statewide rent control laws on the...

San Diego City Council Passes Resolution Declaring Housing a Human Right

November 1, 2022 2:30 amOctober 31, 2022 9:29 pm

The San Diego City Council voted unanimously on a resolution on Monday that declares housing as a human right. While the idea of such a resolution has been floated around many California cities since the affordable housing crisis began being...

Voters Know CA Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Troubles Began Before Pandemic

March 14, 2021 4:03 pmMarch 14, 2021 4:32 pm

A more contrite-sounding California Gov. Gavin Newsom is now acknowledging some of his mistakes in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, however, he still doesn’t understand that it’s much more than the pandemic snafus that are fueling the RecallGavin2020 movement....

Wealth Tax California Style: Tax ‘Avoidance’ Will Not Be Allowed

December 21, 2020 8:12 am

Tesla founder Elon Musk recently left California for Texas after warning Gov. Gavin Newsom of his intensions, to which Newsom responded: Meh. Many other business owners before and after Musk have also fled the state’s high taxes and business-interfering regulations,...