Fifty-five percent of Orange and San Diego county voters support rent control to help middle- and lower-income people remain in their communities, according to a recent UC Berkeley online poll of registered voters released this week. Statewide, 60 percent of voters responding to the poll support rent control.

In Los Angeles County — home to four cities with rent control laws — 68 percent of poll respondents support limits on how much landlords can raise rents. Fifty-nine percent of voters support such a measure in the remaining Southern California counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Imperial.

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