A bill to repeal California’s longstanding ban on rent control received little fanfare—until it died a slow death in committee. Can activists bring it back next year? 

Assemblymember David Chiu has been hailed as a hero on housing. His efforts to pass an ambitious spending and reform package with other Bay Area politicians landed him a glowing spread feature in San Francisco Magazine, and the accolades of newspapers across the state.

But one white whale remained in his agenda: bringing back rent control. In this ongoing saga, Chiu might make history as the only California politician to be picketed at his office by supporters of a bill that he supported as a coauthor.

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