NY Times 11-09-2019, por Conor Dougherty e Luis Ferré-Sadurní
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| Foto: Richard Vogel, AP / USA Today |
California lawmakers approved a statewide rent cap on
Wednesday covering millions of tenants, the biggest step yet in a surge of
initiatives to address an affordable-housing crunch nationwide.
The bill limits annual rent increases to 5 percent after inflation and offers new barriers to eviction, providing a bit of housing security in a state with the nation’s highest housing prices and a swelling homeless population.
(..) The measure, affecting an estimated eight million residents of rental homes and apartments, was heavily pushed by tenants’ groups. In an indication of how dire housing problems have become, it also garnered the support of the California Business Roundtable, representing leading employers, and was unopposed by the state’s biggest landlords’ group. (..)
2019-09-16
