See Also
Essential Books
& Publications
“How
Subsidized Housing Keeps the Poor Down” Book review
by Carol W. LaGrasse, April 9, 2005
Review of: America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake-The
Failure of American Housing Policy
By Howard Husock (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2003)
Additional Helpful
Organizations
American Association of Small Property Owners, F. Patricia Callahan, President
(Connects hundreds of associations of small landlords and other
property owners throughout the country)
address
Homeowners Against Rent Kontrols
(HARK), Adrian R. Tiemann, Ph. D., President
(Association of small landlords in New York City)
address
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In-Depth Information
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- “City
of Goleta Mobile Home Rent Control Law Struck Down”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, November 21, 2004)
The U.S. District Court of the Central District of California
struck down the rent control ordinance of the City of Goleta
in California on October 29, 2004 as an unconstitutional taking
because it failed to substantially further its stated goal of
creating affordable housing. The law kept rents down but raised
sale prices, without allowing the mobile home owner to collect
a fair portion of the sales premium.
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 “Hope
for People Fighting Rent Control” - By Mark Alpert,
Attorney, Hart, King & Coldren, Santa Ana, California; Speech
to the Eighth Annual Conference on Private Property Rights
(PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23, 2004)
In the decision Chevron USA v. Lingle, the Ninth Circuit
ruled that a rent control law has to substantially advance a
legitimate state interest, e.g., to provide affordable housing.
Rent control laws are an example of the “tyranny
of the majority” feared by Madison, which was why
the framers of the Constitution adopted the Fifth Amendment.
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- “Open Range
Warfare — The 2003 Version” - By Ron Zumbrun (Reprinted
by permission, from The Daily Recorder, City of Sacramento,
October 13, 2003)
Plumus County, California adopted an open range ordinance,
forcing property owners to allow cattle grazing. Jack and Millie
Herzberg are suing for trespass and illegal rent control. They
want full compensation and liability insurance.
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