Important issue to California renters on November ballot

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If you are a renter and live in California and pay below market rate

because you are living in a rental unit that is covered by a

rent-stabilization ordinance that ties rent increases to the cost of

living for housing. You should be aware that there is a proposition on

the Calif. ballot for next November that deceptively advertises itself

as being against eminent domain, but its real intent is to end rent

stabilization forever on units that the landlord managed to make

vacant once.

So I think that the number of people who are forced out of units by

mold and other forms of harassment will go up dramatically as the

financial reward will get much higher. This law will change forever

the character of California communities and force many poor people to

move elsewhere, raising the cost of living there, in all probability,

as well. This is going to particularly effect people whose salaries

have not followed the increases in the going rate for housing in the

past years. There will be nowhere to go. It will also increase the

cost of food, etc. in cities as businesses will not be able to find

employees who will work for the wages they are paying currently in the

state.