No on 98 Files Lawsuit to Ensure Ballot Title Summary Accurately Reflects Prop 98 Provisions

First came a Sunday Editorial denouncing the push for more affordable housing in Treasure Island and Bayview – which became a character assassination on the San Francisco Tenants Union. Then yesterday, editorial writer Caille Millner wrote an op-ed against Tom Ammiano’s chain-store legislation – which ended by condemning the City’s rent-controlled tenants. If San Francisco has had rent control for nearly 30 years, why is the Chronicle suddenly attacking it now? Do they want Prop 98 to pass – even if it would rip up environmental laws, ruin affordable housing and jeopardize our water laws – just because they hate rent control? Based on recent coverage, it certainly seems that way.