Michael Weinstein and his AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the organization bankrolling a statewide radical rent control initiative, have been accused of violating multiple political finance laws while campaigning to defeat a…
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Signature-gathering is expected to begin soon in Michael Weinstein’s latest effort to place a radical rent control measure before California voters. California’s attorney general this week issued a title and summary for Weinstein’s Rental Affordability…
A statewide rent control measure targeted for 2020 would likely drive rental units from the market, decrease apartment property values, and possibly diminish annual tax revenues by tens of millions of dollars or more. Those were some of the predictions this week from California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office. The nonpartisan fiscal and…
Less than six months after Proposition 10 went down in crushing defeat, Michael Weinstein is again attempting to return extreme forms of rent control to California, a move that would…
A pair of bills that would greatly expand rent control in California will get their first test in the state Legislature next week. On Thursday, April 25, the Assembly Committee…
During his inaugural state of the state address, Gov. Gavin Newsom this week called on lawmakers to craft legislation that stabilizes rental prices without ruining the businesses of small landlords.…
Thanks largely to a campaign led by the California Apartment Association, voters in the Nov. 6 election overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 10, the statewide ballot measure that would have repealed the…
In a poll released this week, a statewide ballot measure that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act continued to trail by a wide margin. The final pre-election Berkeley Institute…
Proposition 10, the statewide ballot measure that would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, was trailing by a growing margin in a poll released this week by the Public Policy…
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Economist explores negative impacts of repealing Costa-Hawkins on property values, local tax revenue
A newly released paper by a UC Berkeley economist explores how repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act could drive down property values and erode tax money for school districts and…
