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AB 36 sounds like it would encourage a lot more turnover on older buildings, incentivizing the redevelopment of what is currently affordable housing. New York has similar regulations, and what you end up having happen is that landlords will either redevelop or renovate to whatever the threshold is to get out of the affordable housing requirement.



In California landlords are already allowed to pass through “reasonable” capital costs on rent controlled units, so they can essentially already do this.


This is true in theory but in practice often hard to get approved. For example, in San Francisco you can never apply for a pass through on buildings occupied by the elderly or disabled even if that tenant sublets to non-protected people.

In my experience, pass throughs are a theoretical concession instead of a practical one.




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