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California Tenants Take Rent Control Fight to the Ballot Box

Eva Jimenez, a member of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, with her son Raymond in Oakland, Calif., Oct. 3, 2018. In the midst of a dire affordable housing crisis, heavy sums are being spent on Proposition 10, alternately seen as a much-needed tool to help cities, or a radically misguided idea that will only worsen matters. (Brian L. Frank/The New York Times)