In the past couple of years, several local cities including San Diego, Imperial Beach and Chula Vista have enacted laws that are known as “tenant protection ordinances” on top of California’s tenant protections, which are already the strictest in the nation.

So why did another local City Council recently vote against creating a TPO?

In Oceanside, City Councilmember Rick Robinson reversed his vote on a proposed TPO that would have gone beyond state law. His honesty was refreshing, and his reasoning was exactly right.

Robinson explained that while the ordinance was well-intentioned, “What we did is not going to keep people in their homes.” He said he listened to the small “mom-and-pop” landlords in his community. In the end, he concluded that adding more local rules and red tape doesn’t s

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