Supes Forward Landlord Bailout for Board Vote on October 21Randy Shawbyline‚ Oct. 02‚ 2008The SF Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee has voted to send legislation granting landlords special rent increases for water charges to the full Board for an October 21 vote. Although some landlord groups have threatened to launch a mail campaign against Prop A, the San Francisco General Hospital bond, unless the Board passed the measure, no representatives of these groups even bothered to attend yesterday’s hearing. Instead, a flood of tenant advocates expressed anger at landlord attempts to blackmail the Board, while also questioning the policy basis for enacting a poorly-conceived measure that charges tenants for allegedly “excessive” water use. The Committee appeared to send the item to the full Board because they were tired of holding hearings, and wanted their colleagues to finally kill the measure. |