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The right-wing attack on tenant protections in San Francisco
http://48hillsonline.org/2014/10/08/right-wing-attack-tenant-protections-san-francisco/On Monday morning, Oct. 6, in a federal courtroom, the oldest pro-corporate, libertarian legal organization in the nation was trying to shut down San Francisco’s tenant relocation law.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, funded in part by the Koch Brothers, has a long history of attacking progressive legislation and is particularly hostile to government regulations that limit private-property rights. It was founded by allies of Ronald Reagan, and once tried to halt the blockade of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant by suing protesters for $1 million.
Now the PLF has taken aim at a bill by Sup. David Campos that increases the relocation fees that landlords have to pay to tenants in an Ellis Act eviction....
I know of no direct connection between the PLF and the Small Property Owners of SF, but the events of Oct. 6 both indicate an organized, well-funded attack on San Francisco’s ability to fight Ellis evictions.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, funded in part by the Koch Brothers, has a long history of attacking progressive legislation and is particularly hostile to government regulations that limit private-property rights. It was founded by allies of Ronald Reagan, and once tried to halt the blockade of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant by suing protesters for $1 million.
Now the PLF has taken aim at a bill by Sup. David Campos that increases the relocation fees that landlords have to pay to tenants in an Ellis Act eviction....
I know of no direct connection between the PLF and the Small Property Owners of SF, but the events of Oct. 6 both indicate an organized, well-funded attack on San Francisco’s ability to fight Ellis evictions.
