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== Overview ==
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'''"Rent regulation''' is a system of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law laws], administered by a court or a public authority, which aim to ensure the quality and affordability of housing and tenancies on the rental market for land. Comprehensive rent regulation is common in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth Commonwealth] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union European Union] countries, including [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation_in_Canada Canada], Germany, Ireland, Cyprus and Sweden, and also some states in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States]. Generally a system of rent regulation involves:
"a substantial expansion of rent control in California could result in...significant reductions in construction of new housing." Legislative Analysts Office @LAO_CA analysis of #CostaHawkins repeal initiative ▼
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls price controls], limits on the rent that landlord may charge, with '''rent control''' and '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_stabilization rent stabilization]'''
*standards by which a landlord may terminate a tenancy (an equivalent of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_dismissal unfair dismissal] from employment in tenancies)
*obligations on the landlord or tenant regarding adequate maintenance of the property
*a system of oversight and enforcement by an independent regulator and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman Ombudsman]
The classic objective is to limit the price that would result from the market, where an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequality_of_bargaining_power inequality of bargaining power] between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord landlords] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estate tenants] produces continually escalating prices without any stable [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_equilibrium market equilibrium]."
- Wikipedia, "Rent regulation."
== Current rent regulations ==
=== California ===
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=== San Francisco ===
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=== Oakland ===
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=== San Jose ===
== California 'Costa-Hawkins' law repeal initiative ==
== References ==▼
▲"a substantial expansion of rent control in California could result in...significant reductions in construction of new housing." Legislative Analysts Office @LAO_CA analysis of #CostaHawkins repeal initiative
Legislative Analysts Office (California). [http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170629.pdf Review of proposed statutory initiative pertaining to rent control (A.G. File No. 17-0041)]. 12 Dec 2017. http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170629.pdf.<br/> ▼
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▲== References ==
▲*Legislative Analysts Office (California). [http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170629.pdf Review of proposed statutory initiative pertaining to rent control (A.G. File No. 17-0041)]. 12 Dec 2017. [http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170629.pdf http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2017/170629.pdf].<br/>
*Wikipedia. "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation Rent regulation.]"
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