#supposedly encourages irresponsible promiscuity

[cantsayidont]

Shit, this is backed by the AHF? So much for that, then.

(Also, the fact that it would basically kick rent control back to cities does no one any favors, since most California city governments are basically "five landlords and three real estate developers in the same trenchcoat"; California mayors and city councils love real estate development at least as much as they love cops and hate homeless people, which is a lot, and they have already provided developers with ways to end-run what local rent control ordinances currently exist.)

Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.