Renter and landlord groups have launched ballot-box campaigns across the Bay Area in recent months.
Managing Attorney Leah Simon-Weisberg of the Tenant Rights Program at Centro Legal de la Raza speaks during a rally for tenants rights at Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Berkeley is now the latest battleground in the fight over rent control in the Bay Area, with landlord and tenant groups working to bring competing measures before voters this November to either expand or roll back renter protections in the city.
“The housing crisis is so bad that it’s touched everybody,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, a tenant advocate, attorney and chair of the Berkeley Rent Board, which developed one of the two latest ballot measures. “We need all the tools in the toolbox to address the housing crisis.” Additionally, the measure would redirect 20% of the revenue from a rental property tax, which funds city housing and anti-displacement programs, toward covering struggling tenants’ unpaid rent. Gulbransen, the landlord advocate, said that could amount to around $1.2 million a year.
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