If approved, it would allow local governments to establish rent control on residential properties that have been occupied for over 15 years.

[4] The same activists who sponsored Proposition 10, who had links to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, tried again with another ballot measure to reform the Costa-Hawkins Act, due to their failure to completely repeal it in 2018.

[7] This is the second time that California voters have rejected a rent-control measure at the ballot box.

[8] This loss came as Californians experienced record high rents in September 2020, and renters feared COVID-19 related evictions.

René Moya, campaign director for Yes on 21, said, “We are disappointed, although not completely surprised, that Prop.