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20260806 Grok recommends Kholodilin on rent control.rtf
20260806 Grok recommends “The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco”.rtf
20260806 Survey of economists: a ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available.rtf
20260806 What you may see referred to as a “tenants’ rights” ordinance was just the update to the rent stabilization ordinance of 2025.rtf
20260825 Bob Blumenfield, Hugo Soto-Martínez, and Katy Yaroslavsky chose Economic Roundtable to provide the economic analysis of the new SRO.rtf
20260825 ChatGPT on affordable housing requirements and effect on housing and homelessness (city may not have looked at the tradeoff, county may have. todo1).rtf
20260825 Evidence and allegations of bias in Economic Roundtable, the organization chosen to perform the analysis of Raman’s RSO ∕ rent-cap proposal.rtf
20260825 How rent caps can increase homelessness.rtf
20260825 LA’s RSO features (limited to old buildings, vacancy decontrol) help but do not make an increase in homelessness from the RSO (old or new) unlikely relative to a no-RSO counterfactual.rtf
20260825 Los Angeles Economic Roundtable analysis - vacancy decontrol already allows substantial rent resets.rtf
20260825 The average market value of rental properties subject to the RSO has doubled over the last ten years, from about $150,000 to $300,000 per unit. The average market value is nearly five times greater than in 2000.rtf
20260825 the Economic Roundtable’s “Equitable Rent” study was the only external study the City of Los Angeles specifically arranged and contracted for regarding the recent update to the RSO annual allowable rent-increase formula.rtf
20260830 Reminder that rent-stabilized units aren’t the same as affordable ones. Rent-stabilized are subject to Raman’s cap. Affordable is subject to area median income.rtf
20260831 The Los Angeles mayor can't do much of substance to counteract Raman's renter privileges, RSO [rent cap].rtf
20260906 Costa-Hawkins: a 1995 California state law that limits how far local cities and counties can go with rent control. Vacancy de-control, new construction and single-family and condo exemptions.rtf