Proposition 21: Rent Control

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Proposition 21 asks voters if local governments should be allowed to enact rent control measures. It would replace the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a state law pass in 1995 that limited what local governments could do. This is part of the Bay Curious Prop Fest series, covering the 12 statewide propositions on the Nov 2020 ballot. This episode has been updated. Additional Reading: Episode transcript: https://www.kqed.org/news/11841779 Bay Curious Episode on Rent Control: https://bit.ly/33ICNuc Prop Fest Homepage: https://www.kqed.org/propfest KQED Voter Guide: http://kqed.org/voterguide Reported by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Bianca Hernandez, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Michelle Wiley.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:03.0	Welcome to Monday, people.
0:05.0	I hope you had a great weekend.
0:07.0	Maybe you got a chance to catch up on the Seven Becurious Propfest episodes that are already live. Today we're on to Proposition 21. I'm Olivia
0:16.2	Alan Price.
0:17.2	Ads for Proposition 21, the Rent Control Prop, are everywhere. You've probably heard some of them.
0:27.0	How did homelessness get so bad? Keep families in their homes. Vote yes on Prot 21 this.
0:34.0	California is in a deep hole with the shortage of affordable housing.
0:38.0	Prop 21 digs an even deeper hole.
0:40.0	The only California not is what's only to be a year.
0:44.0	Rent control has become a perennial issue in California elections.
0:48.0	But how is this year's law different from others that we've seen?
0:51.0	That's what we're here to figure out. Stick around.
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1:16.2	Like so many of the propositions on our ballot this year,
1:19.2	Proposition 21 on rent control proposes changing and existing law. In this case it's called
1:25.8	the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act and before we can talk about Prop 21 you
1:31.3	really need to know how it works.
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