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Article: Reining in rent control. (Trends)
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- Reason
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- June 1, 1994
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The plain facts may undermine a divisive practice.
IMAGINE NOT BEING ABLE TO LEGALLY move your family into a house you own. That's what happened to a rental-property owner in Santa Monica, California. And it's one of the reasons why the Pacific Legal Foundation, a free-enterprise public-interest law firm, and the California Apartment Association, a landlord group, are taking rent control to court.
The PLF's legal strategy is to show that rent control simultaneously diminishes an owner's rights while failing to advance a governmental interest. In the late 1970s, Santa Monica and Berkeley passed rent-control legislation with the specific intent of securing and ...