Property confiscation via rent control is only the start. Property conversions are already happening in England where official government advisory letters have been sent to warn citizens “to keep your daughters inside”, … male asylum seekers ages 14-19 are being housed in your neighborhood. https://x.com/magagrunt1/status/2120145745731055736/video/1?a=qb7NXq7DCWZWSZKhTD8&s=42.
Think it can’t happen here? On Newsmakers, Westside Rep Oscar Gutierrez once discussed utilizing ‘unused bedrooms in [privately owned] homes to house homeless [strangers in need]. Moreover, our County demands ICE-out in its support of the estimated 20%+ of residents unlawfully, illegally housed here.
Too many local citizens choose to remain either ignorant or are outright stupid; some rightly fear their survival as Democrats post businesses to boycott.
Toxic empathy has taken over South County funded with our tax dollars by elected officials funding over 1000 NGOs. Who cares to push back? Who among us has the courage, the determination to act? Past calls to action have been short lived: StandUpSantaBarbara and SBUnites.us. What’s next? It’s up to us now that we’re under DSA progressive DEM control. City: 6-1 and County 4-1.
This Tuesday the City Council plans to buy LaCasa de la Raza for $6M that requires another $6M or more to gut, renovate, repair in order to provide headquarters— protected space — for NGOs to protect, serve and support those illegally here.
I know my anger will still be channeled where it always has, toward assholes like you who vote in the assholes that are hell bent on destroying America.
What's your point?? Assuming you even have a point, why would you be so obtuse in presenting it? What's going on with you? Good grief... are you celebrating millions of illegal aliens coming into this country because the corrupt and traitorous Biden completely trashed our Constitution and our nation's immigration laws strictly for political advantage? Are you tacitly celebrating those who killed, maimed, murdered and injured innocent American citizens? Will you and your people who will soon have the power finish the job off of "fundamentally changing" this nation?
Shameful...although you comment clearly defines who and what the newly elected represent...and it is not law and order.
Newly elected Democrat House majority and Democrat Senate majority puts their intended wholesale full amnesty and automatic citizenship for all 20 plus million illegals into writing as pending immigration reform legislation.
Which then goes to the to the White House for the President's signature.
Then this immigration subject matter legislation goes before the Supreme Court for review. We'll wait DB, and see who is first to anger over the expected outcome.
2028 is where the anger will be directed. Just like 2024 backlash against the egregious 2020 Democrat overreach. Plus more city wide referendums and recalls.
District elections distorted the voice of the many in our collective community at -arge, into an intentionally ineffectual squeak. Terminating our now unconstitutional city district elections is the next easy response .
And finally eliminating all government employee unions, who drive this entire ruinous debacle we still call participatory governance. Which in fact has become the final chapter of Animal Farm: some pigs (government employee unions) are more equal than the other pigs (taxpayers) .
The torch has now passed in the political sphere from Boomers to Millennials and Gen Z. For the first time, those born after us, will have less than us. As a result, there seems to be a sense of “getting even,” or holding our feet to the fire with draconian measures, taxes, even wealth confiscation in order to “even the playing field.” Clearly, Millennials and Zer’s are struggling with owning property and the frustration and anger shows. All characterized by jealousy and class envy. Why is this our fault?
As a result, Kristen Sneddon has been elected as SB Mayor, in order to make SB “more affordable.” For who? This is a woman who admitted publicly “she doesn’t understand the budget.” Seriously? In looking at her political platform, she wants to “end all fossil fuels.” What does that have to do with “affordability?”
Folks, this is a train wreck coming, so stay clear of the tracks. No doubt the hundreds of local tax-supported NGOs will be running interference for the DSA Junta which has just been elected.
Good luck SB, cuz you’re going to need it. Santa Monica/Venice here we come!
Evening the playing field for Gen Z today, also requires the same decades of Boomer savings, sacrifice and denial along with 30 year mortgages at 7%, for what we could afford; not what we demanded we wanted. We worked hard also to acauire skills the market place wanted and rewarded.
That is the only way Gen Z also can get it as good as the Boomers. But all I see among Gen Z is spend, spend, spend and demand, demand, demand. I hope their current stereotype takes a radical change from being current takers into makers.
Because the inheritance they are expecting has been converted into home equity, reverse mortgage loans used now just to pay off their property taxes and Biden-induced inflation living expenses and along with ever expanding green utility bills.
The underlying and fundamental issue is individual property rights. Bifurcating "mom and pop" landlords from "large scale" landlords is dangerous and a slippery slope playing into the hands of the socialists/communists who seek to control all property. Hopefully you are not suggesting support for suspending the property rights of "large scale" landlords with a special carveout for a special class of property ownership. For thee but not me.
Don't buy into their playbook...deal with the core issue...and don't beg for a special dispensation. Demand what is your Constitutional right and support those who are fighting these immoral and ideological thugs. Classic tyranny of the majority.
Teacher union K-12 indoctrinated several generations now with class envy, resentments and blame. Blame for bogus drowning polar bears and the extinction of the earth in their lifetimes.
Blame for not being handed a free 3BR home in the suburbs, with no property taxes and maintenance obligations. Blame for not being handed UBI and free health care -all funded by pixie dust.
Yes, this issue spot on. I own a triplex in another county in California and I keep thinking I should sell before this happens in that area as well. so sad that we cant have real estate as an investment as long as we are responsible landlords . If rents are too high people are free to move else where . market manipulation should be illegal on all levels and that is what rent stabilization is .
Between 2020 and 2022, I sold all of my CA rentals and replaced them with rentals in sane states. They are all under property management now, and I'm doing well financially with them. Those single family rentals are now occupied by owners instead of tenants. And, I escaped the state last month for a free state!
Did something similar. When asked about where did I transfer/exchange properties, I reply "America". Which is tantamount to saying anywhere but California....or the entire West/Left Coast.
Who said anyone had a right to ROI? We do have a right to an even playing field meaning to let the free market establish rents without government putting its thumb on the scale.
Lots of for-sale signs suddenly sprang up in my neighborhood. Many might well be SFR rentals owned by out-of town, inherited low-property tax paying heirs, who see what is coming for them too.
Good news is the resale step-up will bring in increased property taxes, but much of that goes to the state -to be readily pilfered by no accountability waste, fraud and abuse. Incoming Gov Xavier Becerrra gives property tax-paying residents no comfort .
But one senses change is now slowing coming into effect - tea leaves are being read in this fiscally improvident city.
I wonder how many of these justifiably concerned landlords voted to put the communists in office? You get what you vote for, as has been seen in the state, and many local juristictions as well.
I never voted for any of them, but it didn't matter; too many others did. Thankfully, I escaped to a free state last month, and had sold all of my CA rentals several years ago, replacing them with rentals in sane states. Imagine what the rental market would be like if every mom & pop landlord did that? All of my former single family rentals are now occupied by their owners.
Pat, Improving the owner/tenant ratio in this town can lead to a much saner community here. More people with direct skin in the game.
Thanks for your part to bring in more local property owners, rather than continuing our distorted dominance of renters, who are driving most of this current voter recklessness.
Our Founders were not unsound when they originally proposed only property owners could vote in this brand new country's elections. How different America would be, and that original proposal been upheld.
My properties were actually in the Central Valley, but it's the same there. The state wants to control what we do with our property, that we paid for, maintain, and expect a return on. We also want to choose our tenants and give them a notice to move when they prove to be less than good tenants.
I agree that our founders were wise to allow only property owners to vote, among many other things they wanted for our country. Foolish men and women have watered down those things to the point that the founders wouldn't recognize our country now.
A recent check for still "conservative" cities in California does find most of them are in the Central Valley and eastern parts of the state. Zillow housing searches for these communities also prove, yes one can still afford to live in California. Most are ag communities, which was also Founder Thomas Jefferson preferred civic virtue as well.
The city I lived in is conservative and is an ag community. They even okayed our church to open for inside services in Sept, 2020, when Newscum had them shut down. Fresno is on the cliff and will become liberal soon. Their mayor, once a conservative, seems to have lost his way. As police chief he was very conservative, but as mayor, not so much. I believe California is gone, and it will take a miracle to bring it back to the Golden State of my birth.
I’m not sure I get the difference whether you own 1 or 100 units. Same issue with the billionaire tax, it was a gateway to taxing everyone on assets. FAFO.
66% of people here voted for the people in office causing the problems. Many drug deals made with Carbajal and others for Friedman support. Short sighted. Should have taken a public stand for better leaders. Not a single behind the scenes drug deal effort worked out for any of the manipulators in this county…except Carbajal. He thanks you for the funds for his DNC quota for the 2028 Presidential election…
Watching Democrats click D down the ticket thinking they are voting for the party of JFK or Clinton while right in front of their faces their party here is being hijacked by communists here. Republicans only turning out at 50%. Independents even less.
Voting for a continued supermajority of unchecked authoritarian corruption in this county and state…We are going to get exactly what we voted or turned out for here.
I think the communists should start with Montecito first. Property seizure and conversions to low income project housing…start with celebrities . I’m sure they clicked down the ticket for these people because they have FU money. In fact, Wendy Santamaria with a bulldozer and a bullhorn outside of their gates sounds entertaining…Go get em Wendy. We clearly need our rock bottom Venezuela moment…
Because so many of the voters in this community are government employees, the largest employer. Along with healthcare employees - who in fact benefit from same taxpayer funded health care benefits unions demand for their government employees.
Part of the government employee compensation packages are deluxe health care plans that none of could afford on our own. But in turn increase health care costs for everyone who do not have similar taxpayer funded health care plans.
Laws of the competitive marketplace perversely apply. Premium tax payer funded government employees set the willing buyer insurance rates, the rest of us must now also compete with. Insurance companies happily set the rates as high as they know the government employee unions will demand taxpayers spend on them.
Thus these select numbers of Democrat voters (government employees and health care employees) do disproportionately benefit when everyone else is forced to pay higher taxes. Higher taxes to fund the government employee union demands which now also include the government employee higher health care benefit demands .
Plus when there are higher cost of living increases (housing, food, gas, health care etc) this means union-favored employees get automatic union-bargained COLA payments.
This is very sweet deal so they do vote in record numbers to protect candidates who promise to continue this government employee favored status quo.
Inflation, what me worry? ...grin all government employees whose automatic COLA raises let them ride out any partisan fiscal storm the rest of us face.
Biden's 20% inflation - what me worry, grinned the 23 million government employees during "covid" that our nation tax dollars now supports. Get the connections now?
Yes, the proverbial keys to the asylum are in the hands of the inmates! What could possibly go wrong? What’s that now on the CC, 4 renters? I guess renters will now decide the fate of City finances that property owners will have to pony up for? No doubt they’ll give themselves a raise in terms of rental subsidies every chance they get.
Who to blame for this pending disaster? White, lefty, upper income, overly educated apologists.
Come to think of it, they do owe us all an apology!
Teachers union members do get a special carve out in the proposed DSA Unjust Eviction ordinance. Be sure to read the details. Who and when you cannot evict or terminate anyone. No one in the education industry and no one with students during the school year, regardless of their offenses to your property.
DSA City Council members recently proposed new and wildly expanded Unjust Eviction proposals, on top of the already punitive rent control demands. These new demands are so onerous, it makes it now too scary to even think about renting to anyone any longer. Especially if you are small unit number landlord.
There is not enough return to confront the huge upfront costs you must now have in ready reserve, if/when a rental agreement goes bad.
Plus under this additional DSA demand, there are no exemptions for SFR or condos. Everyone offering a rental anywhere in the city, is now completely vulnerable to this next one-sided DSA round of demands placed on rental properties.
Read this new proposed Unjust Eviction amended ordinance proposal very carefully. You will be held accountable as a landlord now for things beyond your wildest fears, if you need to terminate any rental agreement.
Just not worth it to be a landlord caught in the DSA pinchers now inflicted on this town - more extreme than any other California city requires. You will get nothing but sleepless nights in return. Heaven help those who foolishly put ADU's on their own property.
Another local group that deserves a shout out is Santa Barbara Rental Property Association: https://www.sbrpa.org
They are partners in both the pending lawsuit against the city rent control ordinance and the new referendum now also intending to stop this current rent control ordinance. These are the first steps to put this over-reaching city rent control ordinance on the ballot for a city-wide vote after getting over 9000 signatures, twice the numbers needed.
Two city wide referendums now in the process of putting important city decisions back into the hands of all city voters, and out of the hands of just the very narrow and unrepresentative DSA-affiliated four person city council majority.
Take note: two pending city-wide referendums: (1) rent control; (2) fate of State Street. Stay tuned.
The reason you have to endure this DSA crap, Onalisa, is because the people making those decisions already have "theirs". So they can afford to take "yours". Just look at NYC and that evil mayor who was brought up in a privileged environment but thinks he's entitled to share everything, except, of course... his own stuff. Next time at council, ask those elitists to take the front door off of their multi-million dollar home and put a sign out saying: "Come on in and help yourself." Hypocrites to the max. Yuck. John
From my observations listening to the leftist propaganda and rhetoric, is that anyone owning rental property is wealthy and anyone who is renting is a victim. I noticed that many landlords on this blog have proclaimed that they are restricted from maintaining their margins of income when prices and taxes rise and not adjusting rents to cover these expenses. This is not gouging tenants it’s simply managing the market. As expenses rise and margins fall maintenance drops, disrepair and property values drop, and beautiful neighborhoods become slums.
There was a time when the Mayor Marty Blum city council actively but surreptitiously prevented any enforcement of rental property complaints, particularly against one notorious and well known slum lord ,for fear of "losing affordable housing" in order to protect the underground service worker class.
Slum lord landlords can be real, but punishing everyone is not the solution. But this is part of the hoary stereotype history of the negligent landlord, who in fact was delivering low cost rentals in his own unique fashion.
Eliminate the slum lords and the cry "gentrification" is immediately sounded. It is a rough world out there when providing rental housing in this progressive hive mind town.
Not quite, landlords are both wealthy and greedy, plus oblivious to any of their own property investment maintenance concerns.
This is very cartoon thinking, driving these current DSA rent control demands, including our new mayor who led this vindictive landlord stereotype imagery.
Your concerns are valid and what many people have been speaking out against yet the City Council has seem to forgotten who they work for and that is "We the People" . In addition the local or maybe not local radical left despise the fact that you have a home or even a second home and that they don't because they chose to live in the most expensive place in the nation.
Mandami in NY is now punishing,taxing residents who have more than one home. That's a socialists policies to tax those who are successful and have home ownership.
Incoming and recently elected Sneddon and others will probably follow down the path of Mandami,as they are also socialists.
It may start as rent control and who knows what the communists will then do next.
Wow! I never thought you would admit that Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida are socialists. They also tax people with 2 or more homes differently than those with one.
You forgot to mention this passed in Florida a Red State
Florida's Amendment 3 passed Tuesday, according to projections, deciding the fate of a sweeping proposal to cut property taxes for homeowners across the state.
The "Mamdani housing tax" refers to New York City's new pied-à-terre tax on high-value second homes, championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to help close the city's budget gap without raising taxes on working New Yorkers. The tax targets one- to three-family homes, condos, and co-ops when owners have a separate primary residence, with implementation beginning via mail notifications in July 2026.
Property confiscation via rent control is only the start. Property conversions are already happening in England where official government advisory letters have been sent to warn citizens “to keep your daughters inside”, … male asylum seekers ages 14-19 are being housed in your neighborhood. https://x.com/magagrunt1/status/2120145745731055736/video/1?a=qb7NXq7DCWZWSZKhTD8&s=42.
Think it can’t happen here? On Newsmakers, Westside Rep Oscar Gutierrez once discussed utilizing ‘unused bedrooms in [privately owned] homes to house homeless [strangers in need]. Moreover, our County demands ICE-out in its support of the estimated 20%+ of residents unlawfully, illegally housed here.
Too many local citizens choose to remain either ignorant or are outright stupid; some rightly fear their survival as Democrats post businesses to boycott.
Toxic empathy has taken over South County funded with our tax dollars by elected officials funding over 1000 NGOs. Who cares to push back? Who among us has the courage, the determination to act? Past calls to action have been short lived: StandUpSantaBarbara and SBUnites.us. What’s next? It’s up to us now that we’re under DSA progressive DEM control. City: 6-1 and County 4-1.
This Tuesday the City Council plans to buy LaCasa de la Raza for $6M that requires another $6M or more to gut, renovate, repair in order to provide headquarters— protected space — for NGOs to protect, serve and support those illegally here.
Just imagine . . . January 2029, all of those 'illegally' here are now legally here. What do you do then? What do you channel your anger into then?
I know my anger will still be channeled where it always has, toward assholes like you who vote in the assholes that are hell bent on destroying America.
What's your point?? Assuming you even have a point, why would you be so obtuse in presenting it? What's going on with you? Good grief... are you celebrating millions of illegal aliens coming into this country because the corrupt and traitorous Biden completely trashed our Constitution and our nation's immigration laws strictly for political advantage? Are you tacitly celebrating those who killed, maimed, murdered and injured innocent American citizens? Will you and your people who will soon have the power finish the job off of "fundamentally changing" this nation?
Shameful...although you comment clearly defines who and what the newly elected represent...and it is not law and order.
Newly elected Democrat House majority and Democrat Senate majority puts their intended wholesale full amnesty and automatic citizenship for all 20 plus million illegals into writing as pending immigration reform legislation.
Which then goes to the to the White House for the President's signature.
Then this immigration subject matter legislation goes before the Supreme Court for review. We'll wait DB, and see who is first to anger over the expected outcome.
2028 is where the anger will be directed. Just like 2024 backlash against the egregious 2020 Democrat overreach. Plus more city wide referendums and recalls.
District elections distorted the voice of the many in our collective community at -arge, into an intentionally ineffectual squeak. Terminating our now unconstitutional city district elections is the next easy response .
And finally eliminating all government employee unions, who drive this entire ruinous debacle we still call participatory governance. Which in fact has become the final chapter of Animal Farm: some pigs (government employee unions) are more equal than the other pigs (taxpayers) .
The communists are at your door step
Riding in on government employee union member-fronted glossy campaign brochures.
The torch has now passed in the political sphere from Boomers to Millennials and Gen Z. For the first time, those born after us, will have less than us. As a result, there seems to be a sense of “getting even,” or holding our feet to the fire with draconian measures, taxes, even wealth confiscation in order to “even the playing field.” Clearly, Millennials and Zer’s are struggling with owning property and the frustration and anger shows. All characterized by jealousy and class envy. Why is this our fault?
As a result, Kristen Sneddon has been elected as SB Mayor, in order to make SB “more affordable.” For who? This is a woman who admitted publicly “she doesn’t understand the budget.” Seriously? In looking at her political platform, she wants to “end all fossil fuels.” What does that have to do with “affordability?”
Folks, this is a train wreck coming, so stay clear of the tracks. No doubt the hundreds of local tax-supported NGOs will be running interference for the DSA Junta which has just been elected.
Good luck SB, cuz you’re going to need it. Santa Monica/Venice here we come!
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...and Berkeley, Santa Cruz ad nauseam...
Evening the playing field for Gen Z today, also requires the same decades of Boomer savings, sacrifice and denial along with 30 year mortgages at 7%, for what we could afford; not what we demanded we wanted. We worked hard also to acauire skills the market place wanted and rewarded.
That is the only way Gen Z also can get it as good as the Boomers. But all I see among Gen Z is spend, spend, spend and demand, demand, demand. I hope their current stereotype takes a radical change from being current takers into makers.
Because the inheritance they are expecting has been converted into home equity, reverse mortgage loans used now just to pay off their property taxes and Biden-induced inflation living expenses and along with ever expanding green utility bills.
The underlying and fundamental issue is individual property rights. Bifurcating "mom and pop" landlords from "large scale" landlords is dangerous and a slippery slope playing into the hands of the socialists/communists who seek to control all property. Hopefully you are not suggesting support for suspending the property rights of "large scale" landlords with a special carveout for a special class of property ownership. For thee but not me.
Don't buy into their playbook...deal with the core issue...and don't beg for a special dispensation. Demand what is your Constitutional right and support those who are fighting these immoral and ideological thugs. Classic tyranny of the majority.
Teacher union K-12 indoctrinated several generations now with class envy, resentments and blame. Blame for bogus drowning polar bears and the extinction of the earth in their lifetimes.
Blame for not being handed a free 3BR home in the suburbs, with no property taxes and maintenance obligations. Blame for not being handed UBI and free health care -all funded by pixie dust.
Yes, this issue spot on. I own a triplex in another county in California and I keep thinking I should sell before this happens in that area as well. so sad that we cant have real estate as an investment as long as we are responsible landlords . If rents are too high people are free to move else where . market manipulation should be illegal on all levels and that is what rent stabilization is .
Between 2020 and 2022, I sold all of my CA rentals and replaced them with rentals in sane states. They are all under property management now, and I'm doing well financially with them. Those single family rentals are now occupied by owners instead of tenants. And, I escaped the state last month for a free state!
Did something similar. When asked about where did I transfer/exchange properties, I reply "America". Which is tantamount to saying anywhere but California....or the entire West/Left Coast.
No one has a right to a ROI, if you can't make a profit maybe you should sell to a better landlord.
Who said anyone had a right to ROI? We do have a right to an even playing field meaning to let the free market establish rents without government putting its thumb on the scale.
Lots of for-sale signs suddenly sprang up in my neighborhood. Many might well be SFR rentals owned by out-of town, inherited low-property tax paying heirs, who see what is coming for them too.
Good news is the resale step-up will bring in increased property taxes, but much of that goes to the state -to be readily pilfered by no accountability waste, fraud and abuse. Incoming Gov Xavier Becerrra gives property tax-paying residents no comfort .
But one senses change is now slowing coming into effect - tea leaves are being read in this fiscally improvident city.
I wonder how many of these justifiably concerned landlords voted to put the communists in office? You get what you vote for, as has been seen in the state, and many local juristictions as well.
I never voted for any of them, but it didn't matter; too many others did. Thankfully, I escaped to a free state last month, and had sold all of my CA rentals several years ago, replacing them with rentals in sane states. Imagine what the rental market would be like if every mom & pop landlord did that? All of my former single family rentals are now occupied by their owners.
Pat, Improving the owner/tenant ratio in this town can lead to a much saner community here. More people with direct skin in the game.
Thanks for your part to bring in more local property owners, rather than continuing our distorted dominance of renters, who are driving most of this current voter recklessness.
Our Founders were not unsound when they originally proposed only property owners could vote in this brand new country's elections. How different America would be, and that original proposal been upheld.
My properties were actually in the Central Valley, but it's the same there. The state wants to control what we do with our property, that we paid for, maintain, and expect a return on. We also want to choose our tenants and give them a notice to move when they prove to be less than good tenants.
I agree that our founders were wise to allow only property owners to vote, among many other things they wanted for our country. Foolish men and women have watered down those things to the point that the founders wouldn't recognize our country now.
A recent check for still "conservative" cities in California does find most of them are in the Central Valley and eastern parts of the state. Zillow housing searches for these communities also prove, yes one can still afford to live in California. Most are ag communities, which was also Founder Thomas Jefferson preferred civic virtue as well.
The city I lived in is conservative and is an ag community. They even okayed our church to open for inside services in Sept, 2020, when Newscum had them shut down. Fresno is on the cliff and will become liberal soon. Their mayor, once a conservative, seems to have lost his way. As police chief he was very conservative, but as mayor, not so much. I believe California is gone, and it will take a miracle to bring it back to the Golden State of my birth.
well written hope you get this resolved
I’m not sure I get the difference whether you own 1 or 100 units. Same issue with the billionaire tax, it was a gateway to taxing everyone on assets. FAFO.
66% of people here voted for the people in office causing the problems. Many drug deals made with Carbajal and others for Friedman support. Short sighted. Should have taken a public stand for better leaders. Not a single behind the scenes drug deal effort worked out for any of the manipulators in this county…except Carbajal. He thanks you for the funds for his DNC quota for the 2028 Presidential election…
Watching Democrats click D down the ticket thinking they are voting for the party of JFK or Clinton while right in front of their faces their party here is being hijacked by communists here. Republicans only turning out at 50%. Independents even less.
Voting for a continued supermajority of unchecked authoritarian corruption in this county and state…We are going to get exactly what we voted or turned out for here.
I think the communists should start with Montecito first. Property seizure and conversions to low income project housing…start with celebrities . I’m sure they clicked down the ticket for these people because they have FU money. In fact, Wendy Santamaria with a bulldozer and a bullhorn outside of their gates sounds entertaining…Go get em Wendy. We clearly need our rock bottom Venezuela moment…
People just don't get it. They raise our taxes and still vote for them.
Because so many of the voters in this community are government employees, the largest employer. Along with healthcare employees - who in fact benefit from same taxpayer funded health care benefits unions demand for their government employees.
Part of the government employee compensation packages are deluxe health care plans that none of could afford on our own. But in turn increase health care costs for everyone who do not have similar taxpayer funded health care plans.
Laws of the competitive marketplace perversely apply. Premium tax payer funded government employees set the willing buyer insurance rates, the rest of us must now also compete with. Insurance companies happily set the rates as high as they know the government employee unions will demand taxpayers spend on them.
Thus these select numbers of Democrat voters (government employees and health care employees) do disproportionately benefit when everyone else is forced to pay higher taxes. Higher taxes to fund the government employee union demands which now also include the government employee higher health care benefit demands .
Plus when there are higher cost of living increases (housing, food, gas, health care etc) this means union-favored employees get automatic union-bargained COLA payments.
This is very sweet deal so they do vote in record numbers to protect candidates who promise to continue this government employee favored status quo.
Inflation, what me worry? ...grin all government employees whose automatic COLA raises let them ride out any partisan fiscal storm the rest of us face.
Biden's 20% inflation - what me worry, grinned the 23 million government employees during "covid" that our nation tax dollars now supports. Get the connections now?
Yes, the proverbial keys to the asylum are in the hands of the inmates! What could possibly go wrong? What’s that now on the CC, 4 renters? I guess renters will now decide the fate of City finances that property owners will have to pony up for? No doubt they’ll give themselves a raise in terms of rental subsidies every chance they get.
Who to blame for this pending disaster? White, lefty, upper income, overly educated apologists.
Come to think of it, they do owe us all an apology!
Teachers union members do get a special carve out in the proposed DSA Unjust Eviction ordinance. Be sure to read the details. Who and when you cannot evict or terminate anyone. No one in the education industry and no one with students during the school year, regardless of their offenses to your property.
DSA City Council members recently proposed new and wildly expanded Unjust Eviction proposals, on top of the already punitive rent control demands. These new demands are so onerous, it makes it now too scary to even think about renting to anyone any longer. Especially if you are small unit number landlord.
There is not enough return to confront the huge upfront costs you must now have in ready reserve, if/when a rental agreement goes bad.
Plus under this additional DSA demand, there are no exemptions for SFR or condos. Everyone offering a rental anywhere in the city, is now completely vulnerable to this next one-sided DSA round of demands placed on rental properties.
Read this new proposed Unjust Eviction amended ordinance proposal very carefully. You will be held accountable as a landlord now for things beyond your wildest fears, if you need to terminate any rental agreement.
Just not worth it to be a landlord caught in the DSA pinchers now inflicted on this town - more extreme than any other California city requires. You will get nothing but sleepless nights in return. Heaven help those who foolishly put ADU's on their own property.
Another local group that deserves a shout out is Santa Barbara Rental Property Association: https://www.sbrpa.org
They are partners in both the pending lawsuit against the city rent control ordinance and the new referendum now also intending to stop this current rent control ordinance. These are the first steps to put this over-reaching city rent control ordinance on the ballot for a city-wide vote after getting over 9000 signatures, twice the numbers needed.
Two city wide referendums now in the process of putting important city decisions back into the hands of all city voters, and out of the hands of just the very narrow and unrepresentative DSA-affiliated four person city council majority.
Take note: two pending city-wide referendums: (1) rent control; (2) fate of State Street. Stay tuned.
The reason you have to endure this DSA crap, Onalisa, is because the people making those decisions already have "theirs". So they can afford to take "yours". Just look at NYC and that evil mayor who was brought up in a privileged environment but thinks he's entitled to share everything, except, of course... his own stuff. Next time at council, ask those elitists to take the front door off of their multi-million dollar home and put a sign out saying: "Come on in and help yourself." Hypocrites to the max. Yuck. John
From my observations listening to the leftist propaganda and rhetoric, is that anyone owning rental property is wealthy and anyone who is renting is a victim. I noticed that many landlords on this blog have proclaimed that they are restricted from maintaining their margins of income when prices and taxes rise and not adjusting rents to cover these expenses. This is not gouging tenants it’s simply managing the market. As expenses rise and margins fall maintenance drops, disrepair and property values drop, and beautiful neighborhoods become slums.
The pinheads on the left view everything through the lens of oppressor and oppressed.
There was a time when the Mayor Marty Blum city council actively but surreptitiously prevented any enforcement of rental property complaints, particularly against one notorious and well known slum lord ,for fear of "losing affordable housing" in order to protect the underground service worker class.
Slum lord landlords can be real, but punishing everyone is not the solution. But this is part of the hoary stereotype history of the negligent landlord, who in fact was delivering low cost rentals in his own unique fashion.
Eliminate the slum lords and the cry "gentrification" is immediately sounded. It is a rough world out there when providing rental housing in this progressive hive mind town.
Not quite, landlords are both wealthy and greedy, plus oblivious to any of their own property investment maintenance concerns.
This is very cartoon thinking, driving these current DSA rent control demands, including our new mayor who led this vindictive landlord stereotype imagery.
Onalisa
Your concerns are valid and what many people have been speaking out against yet the City Council has seem to forgotten who they work for and that is "We the People" . In addition the local or maybe not local radical left despise the fact that you have a home or even a second home and that they don't because they chose to live in the most expensive place in the nation.
Mandami in NY is now punishing,taxing residents who have more than one home. That's a socialists policies to tax those who are successful and have home ownership.
Incoming and recently elected Sneddon and others will probably follow down the path of Mandami,as they are also socialists.
It may start as rent control and who knows what the communists will then do next.
Wow! I never thought you would admit that Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida are socialists. They also tax people with 2 or more homes differently than those with one.
Did I say that? Of course you totally miss the point? Focus!!!!Florida will luckily never be socialist ,BTW ,because they are still a red state.
Davieboy, you should go back to pasting AI generated replies, the shit you write is insipid at best, moronic.
You forgot to mention this passed in Florida a Red State
Florida's Amendment 3 passed Tuesday, according to projections, deciding the fate of a sweeping proposal to cut property taxes for homeowners across the state.
The "Mamdani housing tax" refers to New York City's new pied-à-terre tax on high-value second homes, championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to help close the city's budget gap without raising taxes on working New Yorkers. The tax targets one- to three-family homes, condos, and co-ops when owners have a separate primary residence, with implementation beginning via mail notifications in July 2026.