When California's rent-control law was working its way through the Legislature in 2019, its author, Assemblyman David Chiu (D–San Francisco), said the policy was a necessary means of stopping the state's most egregious rent hikes.
"We have millions of Californians who are one rent increase away from eviction and homelessness, folks who are struggling on the streets because they were subject to 10, 20, 100 percent rent increases," he told journalists Liam Dillon and Matt Levin on their Gimme Shelter podcast.
