Rent control in effect takes rental properties off the market and causes the demand to increase. Rent control in essence causes rent to go up rather than down. Part of the reason is that with increase rents to market rates upon their vacancy. Just Cause supports the claim that people are unjustly being evicted from their homes just so that rents can be raised. This is completely false.
Current laws forbid a landlord from evicting a tenant for the purpose of raising rents.
The Just Cause initiative would simply make it impossible to evict someone other than a convicted criminal. This means that disruptive tenants, stalkers, pedophiles or an abusive tenant could not be given a notice to evict. Because of this, landlords may very well loose good tenants because of their inability to evict bad tenants. Just Cause evictions in Oakland, will not work. In addition, the last thing we need is an ordinance that hurts renters, landlords and the city.