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Rent Control’s Free Lunch: A Legal Trap That Will Starve Our City

by Lydia Perez

Dec 17, 2025
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In an astonishing display of Constitutional disregard, the Santa Barbara City Council proposed in October Rent Control with a rent cap tied to just 60% of CPI, a policy that represents nothing less than the unconditional surrender of property rights. Wrapped in the language of “rent stabilization,” the proposal directly violates established law, ignores…

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