Landlords have taken aim at the group, funding another ballot measure, Prop. 34, seemingly aimed solely at curtailing the nonprofit’s ability to fund pro-rent control campaigns.

Prop. 33 is similar to measures that failed respectively in 2018 and 2020. Despite those losses, another effort to repeal Costa-Hawkins qualified for this November’s ballot.

The 29-year-old law prohibits cities from setting rent control on single-family homes or apartments built after 1995. Prop 33, if it passes on Nov. 2024, would repeal Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.

California’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act bars localities from applying rent control to single-family homes and units built after Feb. 1, 1995. Localities can’t dictate how much landlords ...

If Prop. 33 fails, cities would continue to be banned from restricting rent increases on single-family housing or housing built after 1995, or whenever rent control was first enacted in that city.

Rene Christian Moya, campaign director of Yes on 21, said late Tuesday that the group was "disappointed, although not completely surprised, that Prop. 21 fell short at the ballot box tonight." ...