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In his first ever campaign as a candidate, Mamdani narrowly unseated an incumbent Democratic assembly member with a platform emphasizing statewide rent control, fare-free transit, ending mass incarceration and establishing single-payer health care — essentially a state legislator's version of his mayoral platform.

This also points to the need for relief for renters, like national rent control, which the Biden administration urged Congress to pass legislation on last year.

Based on current state law, units made vacant are still nominally under rent control, but a landlord is free to set the new starting rent at any amount they want.

Voters rejected efforts to end forced prison labor and to allow stronger rent control laws.

L.A. allows annual increases of as much as 8% based on inflation, which is higher than most of the other cities that have rent control.