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Prop. 98 is an Attack on Renters |
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Prop. 98 Eliminates Renter Protections and Rent Control
Wealthy apartment and mobile home park owners are spending millions on a deceptive campaign to pass Prop. 98 for their own financial gain. These landlords want voters to believe that Prop. 98 - dubbed the Hidden Agendas Scheme - is about eminent domain. But their hidden agenda is to eliminate rent control so they can make hundreds of millions of dollars by raising rents on seniors and working families. That's why groups concerned with affordable housing like AARP, California Alliance for Retired Americans, Tenants Together, Coalition for Economic Survival, Housing California, League of Women Voters of California, and hundreds of other senior, and renters' rights advocates are waging an aggressive campaign to defeat Prop. 98.
Unless defeated, Prop. 98 - The Landlords' Hidden Agendas Scheme - would:
Eliminate rent control and other renter protection laws. Proposition 98 would phase out rent control in California. It would prohibit future rent control laws and abolish rent control on units once existing tenants move. As a result, Prop. 98 would jeopardize affordable housing for thousands of seniors and widows on fixed incomes, single mothers and working families.
Attack protections for mobile home owners. Under Prop. 98, mobile home park owners could not be prevented by state or local governments from pursuing what are called "condo conversions." Under condo conversions, park owners can force mobile homeowners to buy the space their home occupies at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit. This would leave mobile homeowners stuck in a lose/lose situation - forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the land underneath their units, or tens of thousands to relocate. Unable to pay either of these costs, many seniors and low-income mobile homeowners could be forced out of their homes altogether.
Destroy value of mobile homes. Because Prop. 98 would eliminate rent control as soon as the current tenant vacates the property, mobile home owners will face extreme difficulty trying to sell their units. Potential buyers will be discouraged from purchasing the mobile home because rent control protections on space will be lost when units are sold - destroying the equity in these life-long investments for many seniors.
× Jeopardize laws requiring the fair return of rental deposits × Jeopardize laws requiring 60-day notice before forcing renters out of their housing × Outlaw local affordable housing and "inclusionary zoning" requirements × Jeopardize laws that protect seniors and the disabled from drastic rent increases and that require landlords to give them ample notice before forcing them out of rental housing
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