{"id":56375,"date":"2025-04-29T12:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-lawmaker-withdraws-bill-to-lower-state-rent-caps\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:30:12","slug":"san-jose-lawmaker-withdraws-bill-to-lower-state-rent-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-lawmaker-withdraws-bill-to-lower-state-rent-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose lawmaker withdraws bill to lower state rent caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politically-active landlords are coordinating a campaign to stop a proposal from California lawmakers to slash yearly rent control caps \u2014 and it appears to have worked. While Assemblymember Ash Kalra successfully advocated for his \u201cAffordable Rent Act\u201d proposal Thursday at the state Housing and Community Development Committee, further discussions with the Judiciary Committee led Kalra to withdraw the proposal Tuesday. Also known as Assembly Bill 1157, Kalra\u2019s bill would permanently lower the existing rent control and cost-of-living rate in California from a 15% maximum increase per year, to a 7% maximum increase for tenants. Assemblymember Alex Lee, who also represents&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-lawmakers-want-to-lower-state-rent-caps\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politically-active landlords are coordinating a campaign to stop a proposal from California lawmakers to slash yearly rent control caps \u2014 and it appears to have worked. While Assemblymember Ash Kalra successfully advocated for his \u201cAffordable Rent Act\u201d proposal Thursday at the state Housing and Community Development Committee, further discussions with the Judiciary Committee led Kalra &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}