There have been four new laws proposed this year that would make it harder for landlords to raise rents and evict tenants. Three of the laws would increase the rights of rent-controlled tenants by allowing them to add roommates and by suspending or limiting rent increases that are a hardship. The fourth law would give eviction protection to tenants in non-rent-controlled units, specifically homes that are being foreclosed. more ›

Care of Current TV, here's a nifty video about Proposition 98, which, if passed, would eliminate rent control. Zoinks. It also features someone with a very thick East Coast accent. Double zoinks. more ›

Rent control: yes/no? more ›

RENT CONTROL: Save Rent Control! Please! Proposition 98 looms overhead and threatens all of us renters with possible Bakersfield relocations, and no one wants that. Anyway, la Swanhuyser has more in-depth on the prop here, but tonight you can help fight the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association with tonight's literary and musical festival in Bernal Heights--"Take the Initiative to Save Rent Control"--featuring Andrew Foster Altschul, Stephen Elliott, Alvin Orloff, Richard Loranger, Jonathan Segel, and Victor Krummenacher. Apparently, they also plan on "strip[ping] naked and lead a conga line up to the top of Bernal Hill to perform a resurrection ritual for the owls who died up there a couple years ago." So...yeah. And there will be much needed soapboxing about keeping rent control in SF. We think. Anyway, Check it out. more ›

Tinkering with and/or eliminating rent control in California more ›