Voter Leiman Alfaro submits his ballot into a voting machine at a polling place inside an auditorium at the SFMOMA on election day in San Francisco, Calif. on November 5, 2024.

California voters have rejected Proposition 33, a ballot measure that would have allowed cities to dramatically expand rent control protections. With 94.9% of precincts reporting at least partial results, "no" votes were winning by 61.6% (5.7 million voters). About 3.5 million people voted in favor of the measure. The ballot measure needed only a simple majority (50% plus one vote) to pass.

The proposition would have repealed the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 state law that set limits on how cities and counties could........

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