The California Apartment Association is committed to defeating a Redwood City rent control initiative that has qualified for the Nov. 3 city ballot.
According to Redwood City’s 2026 municipal election page, the petition to impose additional rent control and just-cause eviction limits in Redwood City has been certified as sufficient for the November election.
If voters approve the measure, it will impose stricter local rent caps on many pre-1995 rental housing units, expand eviction restrictions and create a city-run rent program funded by annual landlord fees.
Under the city attorney’s official title and summary, the measure would cap annual rent increases on covered units at 60% of the increase in the local Consumer Price Index, with a maximum increase of 5%. The city also would be responsible for setting annual allowable increases and hearing rent petitions from landlords and tenants.
For no-fault evictions, the initiative would require relocation assistance equal to four times monthly fair market rent or $12,000, whichever is greater, according to the city attorney summary. Tenants 62 or older would receive an additional $6,000.
The ballot measure would come on top of Redwood City’s tenant protection ordinance, which took effect Jan. 1 and added local minimum lease-term requirements, just-cause eviction protections and relocation-assistance rules. Landlords in Redwood City and elsewhere in California also must follow limits on rent increases and eviction restrictions under California’s Tenant Protection Act, which generally caps annual increases at 5% plus local inflation or 10%, whichever is lower.
CAA opposes the local rent control initiative and will lead a campaign against it. CAA previously helped defeat local rent control ballot measures in San Mateo in 2016, Burlingame in 2016 and Pacifica in 2018.
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