The California Homeowners Protection Act: Real California Eminent Domain Reform Without Hidden Agendas

Rent controls don't help anyone. In places with rent controls (i.e. San Francisco and Manhattan), rents are higher than in places without. The reason they result in "stability" is because if the tenant were to vacate for one reason or another, they'll have nowhere to go because they'll see a huge jump in their rent elsewhere! In other words, the landlords have a captive audience, and can throw ultimatums on the tenants. They have no reason to pay for maintenance or do anything to accommodate the tenant

I get so sick of this notion that government gives people rights, and therefore can take them away if they see fit, and can add in other rights they see fit. I don't know if it's a side effect of the separation of church and state view (which I wholeheartedly agree with), or what it is. Our rights don't come from government. They don't come from the constitution. They exist regardless of those two things.

With that in mind, our inalienable rights are not supposed to come at the expense of others. I have a right to life, liberty, property, pursuit of happiness, privacy, etc... to the extent that NO ONE, not even government, can take them from me. Health care is not an inalienable right. If it is, then I guess doctors are prohibited from quitting. Housing is not an inalienable right, especially living in someone else's house at their expense. If it was, then it would be illegal for landlords to take their rental units off the market. It's only a right if it doesn't take from others

Are any of the people in favor of rent controls landlords? Have they gone, taken a risk, and invested their capital, time, money, and energy into being able to rent out property? Have they then rent controlled their own property? If they want to do that, I will fully support them in that. But otherwise, they have no credibility in arguing that demand should be forced on others

Also, the arguments in this article for rent control apply more to food. Food is a greater need than housing, but no one thinks about limiting the price of food. The Soviets did, result: millions starved. Instead, we have food stamps, and that works out nicer. Let's have something similar for housing if we don't already, but don't ask one group of people (landlords) to fix a societal problem that they didn't create!

That aside, all current rent controls for current tenants are allowed to remain under CPOFPA.

CPOFPA doesn't gut environmental laws. The only regulations it prohibits are those enacted IN ORDER TO transfer an ECONOMIC benefit to one or more private persons. Environmental regulations are done for the PUBLIC benefit, and even if they do end up transferring economic benefits to other private persons, they are not enacted for the express purpose of that. Nor does it prohibit water projects. It prohibits the consumption of natural resources appurtenant to that property.

CHPA is phony reform and worse than current law. It says owner-occupied residences can't be transferred to one or more private persons. The explicit mention of one thing excludes all others, meaning others can. The current statutes only allow private takings if blight is present, this would wipe it out because the constitution takes priority over statute. The problem is blight is too vaguely defined, and this doesn't change that. Small businesses, churches, and farms have a fighting chance under current law. Under this, they won't even have that

The Kelo decision affects ALL property, not just residential. CHPA is not straight Kelo by any means

Rent Control is when the government forces private citizens to give money to other private citizens. If rent control was means tested and subsidized by the government I could support it but when you have Millionaires living in Beverly Hills and Pacific Heights at below market rents you lose me.

The law is not protecting renters now and this new rent control sham will make it worse. Every year rent goes up $50. to $100. dollars even with a lease, and there is a no promise of rent not increase when renting a new dwelling there is no sealing on how high these rents can go. There are three bedrooms going for $2150. to move in with a 6 month 12 month lease. 2 bedrooms $1695. 1 year lease. Where will it all end.

The law is not protecting renters now and this new rent control sham will make it worse. Every year rent goes up $50. to $100. dollars even with a lease, and there is a no promise of rent not increasing when renting a new dwelling there is no sealing on how high these rents can go. There are three bedrooms going for $2150. to move in with a 6 month 12 month lease. 2 bedrooms $1695. 1 year lease. Where will it all end.

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