Voters in California have defeated by a wide margin a ballot question that would have enabled cities to significantly expand rent control.
Proposition 33 was rejected by a margin of 61.6% to 38.4%, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday morning.
Prop. 33 would have repealed the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a three-decade-old state law that prohibits cities from establishing rent control over all single-family homes and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. The measure also would have allowed 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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