A bill that would have put a harder cap on how much landlords can raise rents has just died in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO \u2014 Assembly Bill 1157, the Affordable Rent Act, also known as the “Rent Cap Bill,” will not be moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It failed to pass on Tuesday afternoon in the Assembly Judiciary Committee for the second year in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Democratic Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose), the author of the bill, introduced it last year and brought it back for reconsideration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
AB 1157 proposed establishing a permanent rent cap statewide, reducing it from the current 10% to 5%, and expanding protections to single-family homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a cost to humanity. But I think there is a far greater cost to our inhumanity and for us not understanding that we need to do more for the people that are struggling the most,” Kalra said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The bill ultimately failed to get a majority of the votes needed to advance through the committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m concerned about the big arm of government telling private property owners what they have to do,” Assemblymember Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill that would have put a harder cap on how much landlords can raise rents has just…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":515064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-515063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115892485128783688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}