By Lindsey Holden | Sacramento Bee
The campaign for a California rent control ballot measure has hundreds of thousands of letters calling for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s support. But opponents say they represent a form of political advertising.
The Justice for Renters Coalition appeared at the Capitol Wednesday with hundreds of boxes filled with more than 732,000 letters pushing Newsom to back an AIDS Healthcare Foundation initiative that would expand cities’ ability to enact rent control.
The measure would repeal the 1995 Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which prohibits local governments from limiting rent increases on apartments and single-family homes built after that year. It also says landlords cannot be barred from raising rents for new tenants.
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