Mark Gonzalez is running for State Assembly District 54, which stretches from Koreatown and Westlake through downtown and Boyle Heights to Commerce and Montebello. Voters in Assembly District 54 have a difficult choice between two strong candidates — longtime Assembly staffer and Democratic Party leader Mark Gonzalez and John Yi, a community organizer who has run nonprofit advocacy groups. They …
Proposition 21 may feel like deja vu. But a state law, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, restricts cities’ ability to enact or expand rent control programs to address their local conditions. Proposition 21 would allow cities to impose rent control on single-family houses or condos — if an individual owns more than two homes. More than a dozen …
