The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted to expand rent control to an additional 16,000 apartments, with one large caveat: the measure will not go into effect if voters reject Proposition 33.

Prop. 33 is a statewide referendum that proposes to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 state law that prohibits cities from establishing rent control over all single-family homes and condos, as well as apartments built after 1995.

A bill introduced by Supervisor Aaron Peskin was approved last week that would move the city's rent control cutoff date to 1994 from 1979, contingent upon voters approving Prop. 33.

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