CA Rent Control Measure Qualifies Early for Nov. 2024 Ballot with Strong Coalition

Media Advisory

For Thursday, July 27th

Contact: 

Ged Kenslea, AHF Senior Communications Director

323.791.5526

[email protected]    

CA Rent Control Measure Qualifies Early for Nov. 2024 Ballot with Strong Coalition

Yes on 33 Act easily qualifies for November ballot with more than 617,000 signatures verified

Zoom Press Teleconference: Thursday, July 27 @ 12:00 p.m. PDT

Link: https://ahf-org.zoom.us/j/82109341396 

LOS ANGELES, CA (July 26 2023)  A broad and growing coalition of California renters, housing advocates, elected officials, and social justice organizations will host a ZOOM press teleconference on Thursday, July 27 at 12:00 pm (noon) PDT to announce the California Secretary of State’s office has certified the ‘Yes on 33 Act’ for the November 2024 ballot. The statewide initiative will remove California’s rent control ban and give local communities the right to stabilize rents and make apartments more affordable for low- and middle-income renters. 

WHAT: ZOOM Press Conference – Calif. ‘Yes on 33’ Act ballot measure qualifies

WHEN: Thursday, July 27 at 12:00 p.m. PDT

WHERE: ZOOM LINK: https://ahf-org.zoom.us/j/82109341396 

WHO: Hon. Tony Vasquez, California State Board of Equalization member

Ada Briceno, Co-President, UNITE HERE Local 11

Hon. Brian Tabatabai, Mayor Pro Tem, City of West Covina 

Hon. Sue Himmelrich, former Mayor, City of Santa Monica

Hon. Cody Petterson, San Diego School Board Member

Hon. Soli Alpert, Berkeley Rent Board member

Art Rodriguez, Organizing Director, Central Valley Empowerment Alliance & Vice Chair of Renters Council

Yesenia Miranda Meza, Pomona United for Stable Housing (PUSH)

Mari Perez-Ruiz, Chair, California Renters’ Council

Esther Malkin, Founder, Monterey County Renters United

Denny Zane, Co-chair & Co-founder, Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights

Ernie Powell, President, Social Security Works, California 

Carlos Aguilar, Director of Organizing, Coalition for Economic Survival

Basil Kimbrew, Veterans Voices 

Michael Weinstein, President, AIDS Healthcare Foundation 

Susie Shannon, Policy Director, Housing Is A Human Right (press conf. emcee)

and a representative from the Los Angeles Urban League

Earlier this year, backers of the Yes on 33 Act submitted more than 810,000 signatures in support of the Yes on 33 Act. The Secretary of State’s office confirmed as of today (7/26), they had verified over 617,000 signatures—substantially more than the 546,651 valid California voter signatures required by its random sample count method to qualify the measure to go before voters in November 2024. 

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