Wow, "the Donald" lives in Monta Loma? This area is getting ritzy. The author need not worry that Measure w - the "rent" measure proposed by landlord-endorsed city councilmembers - would actually "control" rents. It would not. The measure was designed to draw votes away from the real rent control initiative (Measure V). To understand why Measure W would not control rents, read the ballot arguments headed for mail boxes a month before the November election. Meanwhile Donald, get back to your Presidential run. It is darn entertaining.

Measure W is actually designed by city council to represent MV tenants with a better measure than they had devised. It's better for them because it also is better for the housing market than is the stifling charter amendment they proposed. To add something like rent control to our city's charter is as would be changing the Constitution of the U.S. Not the way to go about it. And the two measures are not competiting! To say they are is a simplistic analysis than is totally erroneous!