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Rules Committee backs resolution supporting Justice for Renters Act to repeal Costa Hawkins
Summary
The committee voted to send a resolution supporting the statewide Justice for Renters Act (a repeal of Costa Hawkins) to the full Board as a committee report after broad public comment and sponsor remarks linking repeal to stronger local rent control protections.
Supervisor Dean Preston introduced a resolution putting the Board on record in support of the Justice for Renters Act, a proposed state ballot measure to repeal the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Preston framed the issue as a straightforward test of whether jurisdictions should be able to expand local rent controls and said tenant groups, anti‑poverty organizations and many affordable housing advocates…
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