California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis

[Text Drivers are Killers]

This will of course discourage construction and make things worse. The answer is to enforce the law and remove the 10 million illegal alien monsters squatting in the state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/b...ss&partner=rss

sep 11 2019 California lawmakers approved a statewide rent cap on Wednesday covering millions of tenants, the biggest step yet in a surge of initiatives to address an affordable-housing crunch nationwide.

The bill limits annual rent increases to 5 percent after inflation and offers new barriers to eviction, providing a bit of housing security in a state with the nation’s highest housing prices and a swelling homeless population.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who has made tenant protection a priority in his first year in office, led negotiations to strengthen the legislation. He has said he would sign the bill, approved as part of a flurry of activity in the final week of the legislative session.

[reagansghost]

good, CA also just forced gig economy pirates like Lyft and Uber to actually hire their employees.....including vacation pay and every other corporate benefit

[dukkha]

good, CA also just forced gig economy pirates like Lyft and Uber to actually hire their employees.....including vacation pay and every other corporate benefit

wow.CA war on independent contractors..not good at all.
The reason I make $30+/hr at my job taking infomercial calls is I am NOT an employee. I am commissioned sales

They have to pay me more to keep my services - other employers give them health care and share FICA withholdings but pay them like $10-15 hour. Show me the money!

[cawacko]

This is democracy in action. The people of California are getting what they want. What I don’t understand is people who support legislation like this then complain about the high cost of housing. People who support restrictions on development and zoning, then complain about the high cost of housing.

Either they don’t understand the correlation between what they support and it’s outcome or have they have a serious case of cognitive dissonance.

[countryboy]

good, CA also just forced gig economy pirates like Lyft and Uber to actually hire their employees.....including vacation pay and every other corporate benefit

Which will never happen. All this will accomplish is loss of income for people who need it most. Good job libs, you never met a jog you didn't love to kill. You fucking idiots NEVER learn.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

This is another problem caused by illegals. Just like highway gridlock in the state and the water shortages. Illegals cause a lot of the forest fires too. Coyotes will start a fire in one area so they can sneak in a bunch of illegals a few miles away.

[Damocles]

That is, quite literally, a fascistic economic policy.

[Into the Night]

This will of course discourage construction and make things worse. The answer is to enforce the law and remove the 10 million illegal alien monsters squatting in the state.

As always, price controls won't work. It always causes shortages (in this case, housing).

[Into the Night]

good, CA also just forced gig economy pirates like Lyft and Uber to actually hire their employees.....including vacation pay and every other corporate benefit

Another fascist move by the SOTC. Watch Uber and Lyft relocate back into the United States.