{"id":138,"date":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/proposition-10-expands-local-governments-authority-to-enact-rent-control-on-residential-property-initiative-statute-recommendation-support\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"proposition-10-expands-local-governments-authority-to-enact-rent-control-on-residential-property-initiative-statute-recommendation-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/proposition-10-expands-local-governments-authority-to-enact-rent-control-on-residential-property-initiative-statute-recommendation-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposition 10:\u00a0\u00a0Expands Local Governments\u2019 Authority to Enact Rent Control on Residential Property. Initiative Statute.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Recommendation: SUPPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u200bProposition 10 is another approach to California\u2019s housing crisis.\u00a0\u00a0Although the state has 12 % of the nation\u2019s population, we have 22% of the nation\u2019s homeless.\u00a0\u00a0Rents for homes and apartments are skyrocketing by double digits in every sector of the state.\u00a0\u00a0Because home sale prices have also soared by 40% over the past year, more and more families now rent since saving down payments cannot keep up with the requirements.\u00a0\u00a0Sixteen percent of our population pays 50% or more for housing leaving little for other costs, nothing for savings.
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The costs add to transportation nightmares with poorer air quality as people are living farther from their jobs to find more affordable housing.\u00a0\u00a0City workers\u2013 police, fire fighters, teachers\u2013rarely live where they work.\u00a0\u00a0
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This proposition would do two things.\u00a0\u00a0It would abolish the existing Costa-Hawkins law that outlawed rent control on buildings constructed after the late 1970.\u00a0\u00a0Second, it would permit cities to create rent control laws that suited their populations.\u00a0\u00a0Proposition 10 in no way mandates rent control but does permit it.
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There are and always have been negative impacts from rent control.\u00a0\u00a0Poor maintenance and upkeep have too often accompanied landlords\u2019 decisions to force people out to raise rents on new tenants.\u00a0A slowdown in new construction that cannot charge the highest market rates is another.\u00a0\u00a0Some of that can be regulated and enforced for the good.\u00a0\u00a0
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Other housing measures such as the propositions also on this ballot may help, but building affordable housing is slow, meets community resistance on siting. Subsidized housing doesn\u2019t always meet the needs of middle income working families not being poor enough for subsidized housing. not wealthy enough for market rate housing.
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Will this measure have some of the unintended consequences of poor sustainability?\u00a0\u00a0Probably.\u00a0\u00a0But because it is up to local jurisdictions and public policy that must have public input, we can learn from past errors how to do this better.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With these reservations in mind, communities may make wiser decision on rent control. It is clear we can no longer wait for other solutions. This is a good step for our working families.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\u200bProposition 10 is another approach to California\u2019s housing crisis.\u00a0\u00a0Although the state has 12 % of the nation\u2019s population, we have 22% of the nation\u2019s homeless.\u00a0\u00a0Rents … Read More ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}