Rent control is a disincentive to build affordable housing

The primary path to the middle class for American families is through property ownership. However, for many African Americans, Latinos and other minorities, the opportunity has been out of reach because of discriminatory housing laws and economic inequality.
It’s alarming that a measure on the November ballot would make this lack of access worse and simultaneously threaten relatively recent gains made by others in these groups. Proposition 21 would make it more difficult to build