Pasadena’s rent control measure survives legal scrutiny

A legal challenge seeking to stop Measure H, Pasadena’s citizen-led rent control initiative, survived a court challenge Tuesday, though some of its provisions did not survive a judge’s scrutiny.

The charter amendment, approved by Pasadena voters last November, set up a rental housing board to oversee rent control, just-cause evictions, relocation assistance, and to craft other rental regulations enacted by the legislation.

But the California Apartment Association argued that the...