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Aug. 1, 2022
The Rent Control War - Part Two
Within a year after Prop 13 was enacted, furious tenants pushed their local legislators and electorates to enact rent control ordinances. Rent control quickly sprung up in Santa Monica, Berkeley, and even the big boys: Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Myron Moskovitz
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Moskovitz Appellate Team
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UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal
In my last column, I described the California Supreme Court's rejection of the constitutional challenges to local government's right to regulate residential rents, in Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976) 17 Cal.3d 129. The Court also laid out how to draft a rent control law that would pass legal muster.
But instead of settling the issue, Birkenfeld set off a wave of highly-organized landlord resistance.
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