Comments on: California on verge of adopting rent control measure

By: Jay Bird

Jay Bird — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 23:39:08 +0000

By the way, apparently a federal judge today blocked SB27, the partisan and unconstitutional law passed by our cheerful legislature and our lovely governor Gavin that would have kept president Trump off the ballot in California.

By: Jay Bird

Jay Bird — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:15:55 +0000

I am not surprised that our pompous and self righteous band of socialists decided to once again do an end run around the people. As the Democrat run legislature reaps their nice six figure salaries with nice traveling perks and live in comfortable little enclaves in their well to do districts, the rest of us must live within our means, pay the regressive taxes, and deal with the aftermath of these policies.

As they invite the rest of the world to come to the golden state and reap all of the benefits that should rightfully be awarded to the tax paying citizen, us working class families trying to get by and playing by the rules are becoming poorer and poorer as the ruling elite continue to raise taxes on the working class.

So come election time, i am going to let everyone know that “I am too poor to vote democratic anymore”. Both my wife and I.

Good luck with rent control!

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:52:42 +0000

Comrades

Unintended consequences bear watching in your relocation plans.

Changing landlord/tenant, enviro related and real estate laws in such a dramatic manner….in a short period.

reduced military security deposits, tenant relocation fees, just cause rental terminations litigation, vacant property and bare land taxes, residential rent caps, CEQA politically biased dense housing and homeless exclusions, homeless shelters on nonprofit and church property, split role real estate taxation, plus a myriad of energy/save planet proposals: building and parking lots rain water runoff taxes, no residential natural gas usage/no fireplaces/no outdoor bq’s, mandated solar on residential buildings, painting streets and roofs white,…..,…

Just a warmup……due to mass resident poverty/helplessness/despair….California moves rapidly to collectivism/ command economy for all.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 06:59:45 +0000

If the bill was turned down by the voters, how could it be over turned and be legal? What good is our voting if it’s changed to what the politicians want? I’m seeing more and more of this.

By: deweaver

deweaver — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 02:05:42 +0000

Rent control has been tried around the world many, many times always with the same result of less housing and higher costs unless the government steals all the wealth builds the equivalent of public housing blocks which rapidly evolve into instant ghettos.

Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity and that fits our political elite ruler’s behaviors. Our elite political rulers seem to believe that they are wise enough to manage the details of our society, even as institutions they have created can’t even add motor voter registration without creating a disaster requiring “more resources” and “labor”.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:37:57 +0000

“There is a younger generation of people who see themselves as permanent renters, and they’re demanding that our public policy catches up to that economic reality.”
And why is it that way? They are paying dearly for higher education because state funding has been reduced due to ballooning MediCal expenses. The Fed student loan program has allowed schools to constantly ratchet up tuition and make students indentured servants to the government for the first 10-15 years of their careers. The Medicaid expansion has driven up their insurance costs by having to cover for the 20% discount the govenment gives itself with healthcare providers along with the capped ratios of insurance payments between older and younger people with private insurance. So they are tapped out even before the anti-development culture in the California has led to sky high rents. The only way out of the younger generation’s California economic reality is to find a new one in a different state.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 23:24:56 +0000

Awesome….more complicated law, aggressive publicans, lawsuits, evictions, condo conversions, general unforeseen complications including more pro slum lords.