Some California landlords are raising their tenants' rents in case Prop. 10 passes
A copy of the correspondence was obtained by the Coalition for Economic Survival in Los Angeles. The organization and other tenants rights groups in the state say landlords are preemptively raising rents on properties not protected by rent control, in case Prop. 10 passes this winter. They provided SFGATE with half-a-dozen instances from across the state in which landlords or property managers issued rent increases, explicitly citing the measure as their reason for doing so.
Most of the increases issued in the provided letters were small amounts — $25 to $50 a year — but some were as much as $200.