Rise Housing Units will tower above existing neighborhoods. I dont like necessarily traffic but i do like the Critical Mass that it will bring to downtown. Reporter google has agreed to work with the city to build in 1000 units of belowmarket rate Affordable Housing for some of which will be on google and and some on san jose made. They could spend so much more, they could do so much more. Reporter he was one of the first housing advocates to call on google to include a portable and housing homeless in to its plans. You cannot move them out so you have to have a plan for them. So i think it would be use google and all the corporations, all the developers, the city leaders, if you want to build in san jose, have to build this into the equation. They say it is listening, we are excited about this next step in our project, we continue to hear that has a preserving affordability is a priority for san jose, and our proposal offers more Affordable Housing job pathways, and Community Spaces f
Familiar, that is because you have been asked to vote on Something Like this before, rent control is back on the ballot. This year, in the form of prop 21. Proposition 21 gives cities the ability to expand rent control, it would apply to housing more than 15 years old, it could also be applied to Single Family homes or condos if the owner has more than two per properties. Proposition 21 is a referendum on costa hawkins, 1995 law that drastically limit each states ability to enact rent control. Voters have the option to make changes to this back in 2018, with proposition 10. But that did not pass. This is a president ial year, right . We know the electorate will be several million voters larger than it was in 2018, it will be a more representative sample of the state of california. Reporter this is the campaign director, he says it will be different this time. And that covid is making people more aware of tenants living on the edge. Over 5 million renters in the state of california are