Opinion: AIDS Healthcare Foundation is pursuing yet another a harmful and destructive ‘renters’ measure
A proposed ballot initiative that proponents call the “Justice for Renters Act” is on the street for signatures. If you’d like to see more housing built in California, don’t sign it.
Then in 2020, AHF tried again with Proposition 21. The campaign in support of Prop. 21 raised an eye-popping $40.8 million, $40.6 million of it donated by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Prop. 21 also went down to defeat, 59.85% to 40.15%. If Costa-Hawkins is repealed, every city council and county board of supervisors could, at any time, pass a radical rent control law that completely changes the economics of the rental housing business. Even without actually passing a law, if the distant sound of voices simply proposing new laws reaches the offices of lenders and developers, that could be enough to cause new housing projects to be called off.
Costa-Hawkins isn’t the only law that rent-control advocates love to hate. Some have expressed a desire to repeal the Ellis Act, which protects the right of rental housing owners to go out of business.
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