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It caps annual rent increases at 60% of inflation (CPI) or 3%, whichever is less.
It rolls back existing rents to what they were on August 3rd, 2022, plus any allowable rent increases under the new law.
It prohibits arbitrary displacement by requiring all evictions to be for a just cause.
It requires landlords to make relocation payments to tenants equal to four times the monthly fair market rent if those tenants were evicted due to no fault of their own.
It establishes a “right of return” for tenants, requiring landlords to offer vacant units back to their former tenants if those tenants were evicted due to no fault of their own.
It provides additional protections against eviction for tenants who are elderly, disabled, or terminally-ill, in addition to tenants who are teachers or students during the school year.
It prohibits landlord harassment against tenants.
It codifies the right for tenants to organize.

They cap annual rent increases at 7%, far more than Larkspur renters can afford. With compounding 7% rent increases, rents would go up 40% in just five years. This is the weakest local rent cap in the entire state of California.
They limit relocation payments for no-fault evictions to three months current rent, making it difficult for evicted tenants to afford first and last month’s rent plus a security deposit for a new apartment, all at higher market-rate prices.
They limit the right of return for no-fault evictions to one year, making it easy for landlords to circumvent rent control by evicting their long-term tenants, waiting a year, then re-renting the unit with jacked up rents to new tenants.
They provide inadequate protections for tenants who are elderly, disabled, or terminally-ill, in addition to tenants who are teachers or students during the school year.
They fail to adequately protect tenants from landlord harassment and retaliation.

Corporate landlords placed a referendum aimed at repealing the existing rent stabilization law on the ballot for the March 5th, 2024 election. Despite raising nearly $300K to overturn the law, they failed at defeating Measure D, meaning the existing law should be in effect.
The owner of Bon Air Apartments, Larkspur’s largest landlord, paid out-of-state signature-gatherers to qualify for the referendum. Countless Larkspur residents have reported being deceived by these canvassers and tricked into signing their petition, thinking that they were signing to support rent control, when they were actually signing to repeal it.
While we are pleased that Measure D passed, preserving the status quo is not nearly enough. We are working to ensure that a much stronger law is placed on the November 2024 ballot.