Check this out. The Complaint that we’ve been meaning to post for a while, filed last month in a Los Angeles U.S. District Court, alleging that California’s new rent control laws are a taking, among other things.
Are rent control laws takings? Yes, pretty sure about that. But will courts conclude that they are takings? If past experience is any guide, courts look for (and find) ways to conclude they are not takings, because, you know, this is one government regulatory scheme that people — here, tenants, can rely on (compared to others, where if you claim a property right in government regulation you are, in Chief Justice Roberts’ words, a “chump”).
Chump on, rent control challengers.