Yes on 33: Kamala Harris Supports Rent Control
06 Agosto 2024 - 4:20PM
Business Wire
California’s Yes on Proposition 33 campaign team welcomed word
that U.S. Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate
Kamala Harris supports rent control. According to a Vox.com news
article published earlier today, Harris recently pledged to “take
on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases” while
speaking to a crowd of 10,000 supporters in Atlanta.
“We applaud Vice President Harris's support of rent control.
Here in her home state, voters have a golden opportunity to expand
rent control by voting Yes on 33 this November,” said Susie
Shannon, campaign director for the Yes on Proposition 33
campaign. “Kamala joins the California Democratic Party and over a
hundred California elected officials in the movement for relief for
renters. Her embrace of rent control definitely increases the
momentum for Prop. 33.”
Vox.com also noted “Harris’s remarks to cap rents echoed a
recent proposal from the Biden administration just two weeks
earlier to limit rent hikes to 5 percent nationwide over the next
two years for all landlords who own more than 50 units. (They
estimate this would cover over 20 million units across the
country.)”
Proposition 33, sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
and endorsed by more than 100 elected and formerly elected
officials in California, is just 23 words: "The state may not limit
the right of any city, county, or city and county to maintain,
enact or expand residential rent control.”
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Press Contact: Ged Kenslea, AHF Senior Director of
Communications 323.791.5526 ged.kenslea@ahf.org