Your vote is simple. If you didn’t read the full Burlingame/San Mateo “rent control” ballot measures, and you don’t know what the proposed “rent control ordinances” will actually do, then you must vote “No.” Out-of-town special interest groups propose an unaccountable “commission” with ultimate control over private landowners’ property. “Rent Control” creates not a single, solitary new rental unit. Instead, it results in unkempt rental units and low-income Section 8 housing zones where illegal drugs, gangs and crime flourish.
In San Mateo County, only East Palo Alto has rent control, and in direct correlation, it was labeled “Murder Captial of the World” in the 1990s. Then-interim city manager Mike Bedwell said: “People just drive into our city, pick up their drugs and drive out, and you get your murders along the way.” Requiring rich developers and city councils to build 50 percent to 75 percent on-site employee housing for every new commercial/retail development accomplishes something, but rent control does not.
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