Mountain View
Suspension of rent control suggested
By the Daily Post staff Mountain View’s Rental Housing Committee tonight (Dec. 14) will discuss whether it wants to look into suspending rent control because of the city’s vacancy rate. […]
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Mountain View
Rent control campaign committee agrees to pay $6,000 for campaign violations
By the Daily Post staff The committee behind the 2016 measure that brought rent control to Mountain View has agreed to settle alleged campaign law violations by paying the state […]
Palo Alto
Eviction, rent cap ordinance advances after power play by councilman
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer An ordinance to stop unjust evictions and rent hikes in Palo Alto will go into effect a week later than planned because Councilman […]
Palo Alto
City wants to stop rent increases before rent cap bill goes into effect on Jan. 1
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Menlo Park City Council intends to pass an ordinance next week that corrects an unintended consequence of the state’s new rent cap law […]
Mountain View
Political sign vandal to pay homeowner $1,000
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Job Lopez, a 74-year-old Mountain View tenants rights activist, agreed yesterday to pay $1,000 to the owner of a house where he was […]
Opinion
Opinion: Legislature sticks us with three lousy bills
OPINION BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The state Legislature passed three lousy bills last week that are going to create a lot of problems for everyone. 1. Rent control, […]
Menlo Park
Menlo Park council rejects ordinance some called ‘rent control’
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A proposal many criticized as “rent control” was rejected by Menlo Park City Council last night (Feb. 26) in favor of an ordinance […]
Menlo Park
Council split three ways over a proposal some see as rent control
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Menlo Park City Council appeared last night (Feb. 12) to be divided over a proposal some have labeled as rent control. The […]
Menlo Park
Council looks at proposal that some say amounts to rent control
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A controversial ordinance that critics have called rent control in disguise will go to Menlo Park City Council tonight (Feb. 12). The ordinance […]
In the news
Regional housing agency that will push rent control moves ahead
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A group of officials from the nine-county Bay Area have signed off on a plan to start a regional agency to build housing […]
Mountain View
Mountain View residents to vote on ‘sneaky repeal’ of rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Landlords’ so-called “sneaky repeal” of Mountain View’s two-year-old rent control law is heading to the ballot in 2020, despite Mayor Lenny Siegel’s urging […]
Mountain View
Editorial: Siegel, Showalter, Inks for Mountain View council
DAILY POST EDITORIAL The two Mountain View City Council incumbents, Lenny Siegel and Pat Showalter, deserve applause for aggressively promoting the construction of housing. They were key players in reaching […]
Mountain View
Measure to roll back rent control submits signatures to get on ballot
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Measure V Too Costly, a landlord-funded campaign seeking to effectively end Mountain View’s two-year-old rent control program, submitted petitions to City Clerk Lisa […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto City Council will say tonight where it stands on state rent control proposition
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent A discussion tonight (Sept. 10) on the November ballot measures could rekindle the Palo Alto City Council’s fiery debate on rent control. The council […]
Palo Alto
Pollster asking Palo Altans about council candidates, housing, rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto voters have been receiving phone calls from a Las Vegas-based pollster this week asking for their views on rent control, job […]
Mountain View
Mayor calls proposed ballot measure a ‘sneak’ repeal of rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel says a ballot measure proposed by a group backed by landlords would effectively repeal the city’s year-old rent […]
Mountain View
Group wants a ballot measure to modify rent control law
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer A group called Measure V Too Costly, referring to the rent control measure that won 53.6% of Mountain View’s vote in 2016, is […]
Mountain View
Pro rent control group hit with campaign disclosure complaint
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Mountain View Tenants Coalition has been hit with a second complaint filed with the state Fair Political Practices Commission, this one alleging […]
Mountain View
Tenants might get hit with fee for rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View tenants may soon have to chip in for rent control. Currently the city’s new rent control program charges landlords $155 per […]
Palo Alto
Three council members want to make it easier to build housing
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After even the idea of studying rent control caused an uproar at City Council, three council members are calling for a different approach: […]
Palo Alto
Council rejects study of rent control
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer After 60 people pleaded for and against rent control in Palo Alto, City Council split 4-3 last night (Oct. 16) and rejected the […]
Mountain View
Many Mountain View tenants may be eligible for refunds
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Almost 15,000 tenants in Mountain View may be eligible for refunds, the city’s Rental Housing Committee ruled last night, ending a dispute over […]