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At the same time, they passed rent control, and the jurisdictions that have the worst housing crises have the strongest rent control. Once a few people rent ou
by gbronner 7y ago
At the same time, they passed rent control, and the jurisdictions that have the worst housing crises have the strongest rent control.
Once a few people rent out their ADUs and then find that they can't evict their tenants as their needs change, very few people are going to be willing to invest the several hundred thousand necessary to permit and build one.
- pcwalton 7y agoThe statewide rent cap is significantly above the amount rents have been rising on their own. It also expires after 10 years. And the cities with the strongest rent control--San Francisco and Los Angeles--are also the cities that have been seeing a boom in ADU construction, even though the dysfunctional rent control policies of those cities apply to a lot of those ADUs. The statewide rent cap isn't likely to be a meaningful impediment to ADU construction. Much more problematic is the cost of constructing the ADU in the first place.