If voters in California approve Proposition 33, cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Berkeley that already have rent control laws are expected to be among the first to expand them.
Prop. 33 would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a three-decade-old state law that prohibits cities from establishing rent control over all single-family homes and housing units built after 1995.
Passage of Prop. 33 also would allow cities to implement "vacancy control" of units when tenants vacate rent-controlled units. Under Costa-Hawkins, the law permits landlords to establish initial rental rents for new tenants.
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