Summary
Grassroots efforts to establish rent control in more California cities could get a boost from the California Apartment Association’s decision to abandon its lawsuits seeking to overturn voter-approved rent-control laws in Richmond and Mountain View.
The association, which represents landlords, posted on its website late Friday that it has “suspended its legal efforts” to overturn Measure V in Mountain View and Measure L in Richmond.
“I hope it emboldens other communities to not be chilled by threats of lawsuits,” said Juliet Brodie, a Stanford Law School professor who helped draft Measure V.
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Even if the association’s decision to drop its lawsuits lowers the legal barrier to rent control, there is still “the political question,” Brodie said. “Do city councils have the political will to go against the real estate industry influence in city hall?”
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