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OPPOSE A.B. 1157: STOP the Attempt to Reduce State Rent Caps

Action Needed Immediately

On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, Assemblymember Ash Kalra is scheduled to present Assembly Bill 1157 (A.B. 1157) before the Assembly Judiciary Committee. This bill represents a serious threat to housing providers across California and must be stopped.

A.B. 1157 caves to pressure from radical tenant advocacy groups and would dramatically weaken existing rent protections that were carefully negotiated under current law.


❗ Why A.B. 1157 Is Harmful

If passed, A.B. 1157 would:

  • Slash rent caps by over 50%
    Reduce allowable increases to 2% + CPI or 5% (whichever is less), down from 5% + CPI or 10%.
  • Eliminate exemptions for single-family homes, condos, and ADUs, undermining Costa-Hawkins protections.
  • Further punish housing providers still recovering from COVID-era moratoriums, unpaid rent, soaring insurance, interest rates, and government mandates.

⚠️ Why This Matters

After years of COVID-era eviction moratoriums and rent freezes, many housing providers are still owed thousands of dollars in unpaid rent, even as operating costs have surged due to skyrocketing insurance premiums, higher interest rates, inflation in labor, materials, utilities, and costly government mandates.

At the same time, California is already facing a severe housing shortage. A.B. 1157 would make it worse by:

  • Discouraging new housing development
  • Reducing incentives for single-family homeowners to rent
  • Making multifamily projects financially unviable

Lower rent caps are the wrong approach at a time when California desperately needs more housing—not less.

Finally, it’s important to remember that current statewide rent caps were the result of a carefully negotiated compromise under AB 1482 (2019) between housing providers, tenant groups, and lawmakers. A.B. 1157 breaks that agreement.


📢 TAKE ACTION TODAY: VOTE NO ON A.B. 1157

We need your help now. Please contact:

  • Members of the Assembly Judiciary Committee
  • Your local Assemblymember(s) in districts where you own property

Urge them to VOTE NO on A.B. 1157 (Kalra).


🗣️ What to Say

  • Housing providers are still recovering from years of lost rent and inflation. Lowering rent caps now will worsen the financial strain on small property owners. Hurting mom-and-pop owners does nothing to increase housing supply that is needed to address housing availability and affordability.
  • California faces severe housing shortages and lowering rent caps is the wrong approach to encouraging housing development. Property owners will no longer have the appropriate incentive to rent their properties, and developers will lose financial incentives to construct new housing.
  • The voters have rejected policies similar to this bill three times, with the resounding defeat of Proposition 10 in 2018, Proposition 21 in 2020, and Proposition 33 in 2024.  AB 1157 goes against what Californians have said they need to address the housing crisis

📞 Judiciary Committee Contacts


⏰ Time Is Critical

Please act today. Your voice matters—and it can make the difference in stopping this harmful legislation.

VOTE NO ON A.B. 1157.