Proposition 21 will make the housing crisis worse. Vote No.

Rent control is a government intervention that distorts, and damages, the housing market and nearly everyone in it. It doesn’t spur homebuilding. It does lower land values. It forces properties off the rental market. And above all, it doesn’t help people at the low end of the economic scale — a key goal of the backers of the ill-advised Proposition 21.
Proposition 21 is the latest initiative to make it easier for localities to impose rent control. Voters rejected a similar meas