> Well, some time passes and rents keep spiraling out of control. Turns out the landlords were full of shit. So, to match landlords' new, shiny "Property Tax Control", major cities enacted various Rent Control and Rent stabilization ordinances.
Prop 13 wasn't driven by landlords, it was driven by higher housing prices forcing out retirees. The two aren't really connected. Prop 13, enacted in 1978, actually set property value at 1976 levels, so property taxes didn't just stop going up a lot, they went down.
And the timing doesn't really work out. Prop 13 was passed in 1978 and rent control was enacted in SF in 1979. If anything, Prop 13 helped drive rent control as landlord's no longer could claim that property tax increases would bankrupt them.
> ...it was driven by higher housing prices forcing out retirees.
That's part of it, yes.
As I mentioned:
> Mix those promises in with a few commercials and full-page ads about "How will granny keep her house if she can't pay the tax man??" and Prop 13 passes.
> And the timing doesn't really work out. Prop 13 was passed in 1978 and rent control was enacted in SF in 1979.
What? A ~year is very reasonable amount of time to discover whether landlords' promises of reining in rents because of the property-tax-payment-control they just got gifted were genuine. That's not something you're going to find out in a month or a quarter.
Prop 13 wasn't driven by landlords, it was driven by higher housing prices forcing out retirees. The two aren't really connected. Prop 13, enacted in 1978, actually set property value at 1976 levels, so property taxes didn't just stop going up a lot, they went down.
And the timing doesn't really work out. Prop 13 was passed in 1978 and rent control was enacted in SF in 1979. If anything, Prop 13 helped drive rent control as landlord's no longer could claim that property tax increases would bankrupt them.