Our Purpose

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San Diego City and County have a housing blue print where they suggest that their #2 Goal is Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability.

This is an amazing and admirable goal that we fully support.  The problem is our City Council just implemented strict rent control (June 2023) that will cause our quality of life in San Diego to go downhill rapidly.  Look around... 

we are already seeing it.

We realize that our city government does not understand fully yet, how to obtain  Equity, Inclusion or Sustainability. Please help us, help our city come up with real solutions.

Let's learn from rent control cities: (New York, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Los Angeles...) and save San Diego "America's Finest City" 

from a similar demise.  

I am a tenant, and I work for an association where we help mom and pop housing providers throughout California.  

I am not political.  I am an advocate for America's Finest City.  I have seen first hand the harm that rent control has caused for our friends in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Please help us preserve America's Finest City in a way that works for all our residents.

 GREG ROSALSKY, BYLINE: 

Back in 1994, San Francisco renters had a lot to be happy about. The 49ers were about to win a Super Bowl. The Internet was taking off. 

And a new law, which expanded rent control around the city, told a lot of landlords they could only raise rents to about half the rate of inflation. That was only about 1 percent that year, which was the lowest rent increase most renters had seen in over a decade.

REBECCA DIAMOND: 

All of the potential good things about rent control you do see going on for that initial set of renters.

 They intentionally call it “rent stabilization,” but make no mistake, it’s rent control, a term they don’t want to use because it’s been proven time and time again that rent control doesn’t work. 

I won’t belabor here a point already made a thousand times over, so take it from sources like Business Insider (“[It] is actually a well-known phenomenon among economists, on both the left and the right, [that] rent control doesn’t work. 

It doesn’t help the poor. It helps the rich.”), 

The Economist (“In places where demand for urban housing is rising, a more effective policy is to build more housing.”), and 

Forbes (“It’s a standard point among economists that rent control doesn’t work. … In a field as contentious as economics, 93% agreement is about as far as you’re going to get. It’s equivalent to asking 1st graders whether kittens are cute.”)