[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]alifornia voters rejected a hail-mary for relief in the state’s desperate housing crisis, casting ballots overwhelmingly against Proposition 10 amid Tuesday’s national midterm election. By midnight, no county in California besides San Francisco voted in favor of the initiative that would have allowed local governments to explore measures to control soaring housing costs for millions of cash-strapped renters in the Golden State.
* Story updated, 10:41 am.
The country’s biggest and most late-voting state (besides tiny electorates Alaska and Hawaii; Oregon and Washington are entirely vote-by-mail), California also decided on its governor and one of its two senators.