Yes on 10: California Democratic Party Endorses Proposition 10 Campaign to Expand Rent Control
July 15 2018 - 6:22PM
Business Wire
The campaign backed by labor, tenants, ACCE and
AHF lands biggest endorsement to date at the California Democratic
Party Executive Board meeting
Responding to skyrocketing rents, the California Democratic
Party today voted overwhelmingly to endorse Proposition 10, the
Affordable Housing Act, which would repeal the anti-rent control
Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, and return the power of
regulating rents back to local communities. With over 95% of the
votes cast by California Democratic Party Executive Board members,
the Yes on Prop 10 effort overcame the high 60% threshold to secure
the party endorsement for the November 6 election.
“Securing the Democratic Party endorsement is huge,“ said Joe
Trippi of Trippi Norton Rossmeissl Campaigns, the lead
strategist of the Yes on 10 campaign. “The party’s endorsement
helps make clear that it stands with the millions of Californians
struggling to pay the rent and supports returning the power to
respond to the state’s housing affordability crisis back to the
people and back to local communities.”
“We are honored to receive the California Democratic Party
endorsement,” said Damien Goodmon, Director of AIDS
Healthcare Foundation’s Housing is a Human Right project and Yes on
10 campaign. “It is a product of over a year of organizing from
members of the party led by Susie Shannon, Larry Gross, Deepa
Verma, Jane Demian, Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown
and California Democratic Party Renter Caucus Chair Rick Hauptman.
In less than 18 months these able tenant rights activists and party
members created a renters’ caucus, got resolutions passed, added
explicit pro-tenant language to the platform, and today, they
helped secure the Prop 10 endorsement.”
At its annual convention in February of this year the Democratic
Party added the following to its platform:
“Support allowing local communities to create
strong tenant and affordability protections against displacement,
speculation, rent increases, and evictions without interference
from state law.”
Today’s endorsement translates that platform position into a
formal endorsement of Prop 10.
Proposition 10, the Affordable Housing Act, is an initiative on
the November ballot to repeal the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental
Housing Act and return power to local communities to adopt rent
control necessary to address the state’s housing affordability
crisis. Signed into law 23 years ago, Costa-Hawkins prevents cities
and counties from applying rent control on apartments built after
1995 or to single-family rental units and condos. It also allows
landlords to raise the rent as much as they want when a unit
becomes vacant.
The three proponents of the Yes on Prop 10 campaign are the AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Alliance of Californians for Community
Empowerment (ACCE Action) and Eviction Defense Network (EDN). It
has earned the broad support of over 150 labor, housing advocacy,
community, and faith-based organizations throughout the state:
www.affordablehousingact.org/endorsements.
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