This November when you go to the polls, please pay attention to your ballot.  Prop 10, the so-called “Affordable Housing Act,” will make the housing crisis worse by repealing the long standing Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act which will eventually allow local governments to impose draconian rent control measures. Schroeder Companies strongly opposes Prop 10.

Here’s why California Residents and Land Owners must vote NO:

Proposition 10 will reduce availability of affordable and middle-class housing.

Academic experts from the University of Southern California, U.C. Berkeley and Stanford agree that it would drive up rents, while discouraging new construction and reduce the availability of affordable and middle-class housing. Even the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst has found that passage of Proposition 10 would both discourage new construction and result in existing rental units being taken off the market, reducing availability of rental housing.

Proposition 10 will increase the cost of existing housing.

Proposition 10 will cause homeowners to sell or convert rental properties into other more profitable uses, such as short-term vacation listing services like Airbnb. That would increase the cost of existing housing and make it even harder for renters to find affordable housing.

Proposition 10 will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars per year, reducing revenues available for education and public safety.

The Legislative Analyst also said that Proposition 10 would likely reduce the value of rental properties and single-family homes, driving down local property tax revenues by up to hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Driving down home values will hurt middle-class families and will also reduce the funding available for vital services like schools, public safety, road repairs, education, and fire safety.

Proposition 10 will eliminate homeowner protections.

Proposition 10 repeals protections homeowners have enjoyed for over 20 years, and lets the government dictate pricing for privately owned single-family homes, controlling how much homeowners can charge to rent out their home – or even just a room. Proposition 10 might even lead to bureaucrats imposing oppressive surcharges when an owner takes a home off the rental market and chooses to occupy it.