{"id":54070,"date":"2022-11-01T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54070"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:31:42","slug":"barger-reacts-to-board-of-supervisors-approval-of-rent-cap-for-unincorporated-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54070","title":{"rendered":"Barger Reacts to Board of Supervisors\u2019 Approval of Rent Cap for Unincorporated Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Today, Supervisor Kathryn Barger released the following statement reacting to the Board of Supervisors\u2019 approval of a County Code\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjExMDEuNjYwMjA3ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vZmlsZS5sYWNvdW50eS5nb3YvU0RTSW50ZXIvYm9zL3N1cGRvY3MvMTc0MzMxLnBkZj91dG1fY29udGVudD0mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fbmFtZT0mdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1nb3ZkZWxpdmVyeSZ1dG1fdGVybT0ifQ.r3R2BmpL8PblgL7oCOIrs7_T_rNEr1-KKYfh0opBNgE\/s\/1372357670\/br\/147201272614-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsImJ1bGxldGluX2lkIjoiMjAyMjExMDEuNjYwMjA3ODEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vZmlsZS5sYWNvdW50eS5nb3YvU0RTSW50ZXIvYm9zL3N1cGRvY3MvMTc0MzMxLnBkZj91dG1fY29udGVudD0mdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fbmFtZT0mdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1nb3ZkZWxpdmVyeSZ1dG1fdGVybT0ifQ.r3R2BmpL8PblgL7oCOIrs7_T_rNEr1-KKYfh0opBNgE\/s\/1372357670\/br\/147201272614-l&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1667422450452000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3blsaCvaB7tyQ2orHWDuSL\">amendment<\/a>\u00a0that imposes a temporary three percent restriction on rental property increases through December 31, 2023:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>\u201cWhile I\u00a0<\/em><em>understand the desire to deal with systemic problems like inflation and a high priced housing market with \u2018quick fixes\u2019 like rent caps, I believe imposing a cap on rent increases in our unincorporated communities is the wrong move.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Rent increase restrictions have a lot of negative, unintended consequences. Property owners are shouldering financial consequences while their property bills keep rising. Rent cap policies can also make a scarce housing market even leaner. Property owners in our unincorporated communities will have little to no incentive to lease their available properties, which will exacerbate our housing crisis.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>I voted \u2018no\u2019 today because I can\u2019t support policies that are unbalanced and shortsighted.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Supervisor Kathryn Barger released the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54071,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54070\/revisions\/54071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}