Is Rent Control Working and Should We Have More or Less of It?
"In the mid-'90s, California was going through an affordable housing crisis. To encourage more housing development, two politicians, Democratic Sen. Jim Costa of Fresno and Republican Assemblyman Phil Hawkins of Bellflower, wanted to curb rent control. They drafted the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, and in 1995 it passed by one vote. Costa-Hawkins shaped rent control [...]