Berkeley is asking voters to approve updates to the city’s rent-control ordinance in November, to go into effect only if the California law restricting rent control is repealed.

State Proposition 10, also on the ballot in November, would repeal Costa Hawkins, which introduced rent-control restrictions statewide in 1995. If Proposition 10 passes, Berkeley will automatically return to its original 1980 rent-control ordinance, unless the new local measure amending it is also passed.

If approved by voters, the measure will return Berkeley to its system of rent control, but exempt newly constructed buildings for 20 years, and exempt both in-law units and the main houses they’re attached to permanently.

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