PROPOSITION 33, THE RENT CONTROL BALLOT MEASURE, WILL ONLY MAKE CALIFORNIAā€™S HOUSING CRISIS WORSE.
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California already has among the strongest statewide tenant protection laws in the country, providing certainty on rent increases while ensuring critical affordable housing can still be built in our state.
But Michael Weinstein and his multi-million dollar special interest group are pushing Prop 33 with millions of dollars made from buying discounted Medi-Cal drugs and reselling them for big profits to their patients.
This is their third attempt to impose flawed rent control measures after Proposition 21 was defeated with a 60% NO vote in 2020 and Proposition 10 was rejected with a 59% NO vote in 2018.
TheirĀ latestĀ rent control initiative, Prop 33, is bad for homeowners and renters.Ā
It will reduce our housing supply and make Californiaā€™s housing even more expensive.
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Proposition 33 Allows Regulation Of Single-Family Homes
This deeply flawed initiative allows local governments to impose rent control on apartments and privately-owned single-family homes. It may even open the door to unelected bureaucrats charging homeowners a fee for taking their homes off the rental market.
Proposition 33 Undermines Californiaā€™s New Statewide Rent Control Law
California already has among the strongest statewide rent control laws in the country. Under Prop 33, local governments can even give landlords the power to raise rents higher than whatā€™s allowed under Californiaā€™s statewide renter protections. Prop 33 does nothing to protect tenants from being unfairly evicted from their homes.
Proposition 33 Reduces Housing Supply And Drives Up The Cost Of Existing Housing
This initiative will encourage landlords to take rental properties off the market and convert them into condos, further reducing the rental housing supply and making the housing crisis even worse. Prop 33 will prevent critical affordable housing development by creating an inconsistent and unpredictable patchwork of local ordinancesā€”driving up rents and housing costs up even higher. This will hit low-income families especially hard.
Proposition 33 Puts Unelected Bureaucrats In Charge Of Housing With The Power To Add Additional Fees
The flawed rent control measure will give unelected bureaucrats the power to add fees on rental housing without votersā€™ approvalā€”making rental housing even more expensive and driving up the cost of living. Prop 33 will put as many as 539 rental boards in charge of rental housing, with bureaucrats deciding what people can or cannot do with their properties.
Proposition 33 Adds Tens of Millions in New Costs to Local Governments
The stateā€™s non-partisan Legislative Analyst Office says Prop 33 would increase costs for local governments by tens of millions of dollars per year and cost the state millions more in lost revenueā€”diverting funds from other vital state services.