rejected several ballot measures<\/a> that would have imposed rent control. <\/p>\n\u201cRather than addressing the core issue, which is California\u2019s severe housing shortage, AB 1157 places blame on the rental housing industry,\u201d she said. \u201cIt sends a chilling message to investors and builders of housing that they are subject to a reversal of legislation and laws by lawmakers. This instability alone threatens to stall or reverse the great work legislators have done in California in the last several years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supporters of the bill included the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action, a statewide nonprofit that works for economic and social justice. The measure is also sponsored by Housing Now, PICO California, California Public Advocates and Unite Here Local 11.<\/p>\n
The legislation failed to collect the votes needed to pass out of committee. <\/p>\n
On Monday, proponents rallied outside the Capitol to drum up support. \u201cWe are the renters; the mighty mighty renters,\u201d they chanted. \u201cFighting for justice, affordable housing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy rent is half of my income,\u201d said Claudia Reynolds, who is struggling to make ends meet after a recent hip injury. \u201cI give up a lot of things. I use a cellphone for light; I don\u2019t have heat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lydia Hernandez, a teacher and renter from Claremont, said she used to dream of owning a home. As the first person in her family to obtain a college degree, she thought it was an obtainable goal. But now she worries she won\u2019t even be able to keep up with her apartment\u2019s rent. <\/p>\n
Hernandez recalled noticing a woman who had recently become homeless last week on her way to school. <\/p>\n
\u201cI started to tear up,\u201d said Hernandez, her voice cracking. \u201cI could see myself in her in my future, where I could spend my retirement years living an unsheltered life.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Tuesday\u2019s vote, Anya Svanoe, communications director for ACCE Action, said many of their members felt betrayed. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile housing production is a very important part of getting us out of this housing crisis, it isn\u2019t enough,\u201d she said. \u201cFamilies are in dire need of protections right now and we can\u2019t wait for trickle-down housing production.\u201d<\/p>\n
In California, 40.6% of households are spending more than 30% of their income on housing, according to an analysis released in 2024<\/a> by the Pew Research Center. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development considers households that spend more than 30% of their incomes on housing to be \u201ccost burdened.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contentious housing bill that would have capped rent increases to 5% a year died in the Assembly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3899,7,67845,9,1843,8,4488,67848,67847,1011,13879,3001,67846,67844,1010,32080,68],"class_list":["post-132419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-assembly-bill","tag-california","tag-california-apartment-assn","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-legislature","tag-california-news","tag-californians","tag-committee-chamber","tag-high-cost","tag-housing","tag-income","tag-legislation","tag-lydia-hernandez","tag-many-renter","tag-rent","tag-rent-increase","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}