CA didn't have rent control until after Prop 13 passed. Howard Jarvis rallied renters by claiming that landlords would be nice and pass the tax savings onto the

CA didn't have rent control until after Prop 13 passed. Howard Jarvis rallied renters by claiming that landlords would be nice and pass the tax savings onto their tenants. Somehow people believed this and, when it didn't happen, lashed out with aggressive rent control laws in our major cities.