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Costa-Hawkins is the key state legislation which serves to guide the operative provisions and practice of rent control in California. [58] Yet it is the local governments, for the most part the cities, which actually write and adopt the specific rent control laws.
In 2018, 2020, and 2024, the AHF spent tens of millions of dollars running ballot initiatives that would have repealed state-level rent control limitations and given California municipalities a ...
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Renters Act", was a California ballot proposition and initiative statute in the 2024 general election that would have repealed the Costa–Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allowed localities to enact ...
Propositon 33 would let cities and counties enact rent control by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Similar statewide rent control initiatives failed in 2020 and 2018.
As of 2019, about 182 U.S. municipalities had rent control: 99 in New Jersey, 63 in New York, 18 in California, one in Maryland, and Washington, D.C. [71] The five most populous cities with rent control are New York City; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Oakland; and Washington, D.C. [71] The sole Maryland municipality with rent control is Takoma ...
RENT CAP: California lawmakers approved a statewide rent cap. Governor Gavin Newsom called the new legislation, "the strongest rent control package in America."
Santa Ana, California, limits annual rent increases to 3% for any apartments built before 1995, which is below the state’s rent control cap of 5% plus local inflation.
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