California tenants, landlords, democrats, everyone is fighting against rental hats

One of the most jerk legislative matches for 2019 was above the restriction of the bill The amount that many California landlords can be rentedS

Six years later, legislators have returned to this again, as the Committee on Housing of the Assembly took a bill on Thursday, author of the Democratic Assembly member Ash Calra of San Jose who would:

• Reducing the cap from 10% to 5% (or 2% plus current inflation, which is a lower one);
• Expanding the law to single -family homes (currently released);
• Make the law permanent (current sunsets for law in 2030).

If the size of the crowd at the hearing at the Dellar Committee in the middle of the morning is some indication, Assembly A assembly Bill 1157 is one of the most controversial accounts of the year. The advocates on both sides were crowded in the auditory room and blocked the corridor out with colored coded groups. The hired are advocated by the non -profit Union of Californians to empower the community bearing yellow; Landlords, allied with the California Apartment Association, make up a sea of ​​red.

Proponents of the bill claim that this legal restriction is too high for tenants with low incomes, especially given the punishing inflation in the last few years and that the caring of single -family homes is unfair.

• Tammy AlvaradoA tenant of San Diego County and a supporter of Bill: “Most people’s American dream is to buy a house and ours is just to stay in our house. Unless something changes, to become a homeless man is a reality for my family.”

The bill adopted the committee, but closely, from 7 to 5.

Many democrats, especially in the assembly, have Trained their legislative focus This year for facilitating, cheaper and more enticing for the construction of new homes. Even some of the legislators who voted for the bill on Thursday made it half-hearted, complaining about the effect of cooling that politics can have on building new homes at a time when the state is desperate for more general offering.

As with the current law, the bill would not apply to homes that are 15 or more. Most economists agree These rents control measures tend to impede the construction of new homes and maintain the old ones, while providing financial stability to longtime tenants. And as with any policy, Details matterS

The tension between supplies and skeptics amplifiers is likely to become a dominant topic in this year’s legislative session. On Monday, a major housing bill stopped, and another was barely skating in the Housing Committee when the chairman called the lack of bills of firmly coded requirements for accessibility a “uncomfortableS ”

Two days later, in the assembly, speaker Robert RivasDemocrat from Salinas has released his list of priority legislation on housing. More special, AB 1157 did not make a cutS