It's disingenuous for the author of this article to state that Measure D was the result of any real "attempts to build a consensus." City Council negotiated only with the landlords and with itself on this "compromise." How else can you explain Measure D containing only giveaways to the wealthy and being opposed by virtually every other group?

Nice reporting. I would add that Republican Alex Glew would appear to have no chance in the November runoff against Democrat Josh Becker. The state senate district is less than 20% registered Republicans. The local rent control "sneaky repeal" headed for the November ballot is not likely to pass. But turnout is always key. And money can speak loudly in campaigns. The sneaky repeal will not be opposed by the local mobilehome park owner who just spent big money against Measure D so he could argue that underlining Measure V (part of the city charter) does not allow rent control in mobilehome parks to be enacted by the city council. Although there currently is statewide rent control of many housing units and no evictions during the current pandemic, the matter of rent levels and rent gouging will likely be an factor in the selection of city councilmembers in the fall. Plus, passage of school bond measures T (MV-Whisman) and G (Foothill-De Anza) should draw some candidates for the governing boards who might actually insist that the new borrowing and spending authority be used wisely. Remote learning should become an option - if not the new model - for schools and community colleges.

From the bar chart above, it appears that Shelly Masur got more votes than Alex Glew.

Gary,

Notice we are getting no advertisements to promote the landlord ballot measure for November?

Probably because they have their hands full regarding AB 828.

Also, they realize they are in a losing situation, the primary votes were most likely to benefit Measure D but to lose by a 70% result was just amazing.

you will get all the votes if you promise the following:

free health care.
free food.
free rent.

I knew this was coming:

My new landlord that bought my building in 2016 was trying to use a group called Zeus Living to outsource tenants in my newly rent controlled building.

We have only 11 units, 6 of those are currently occupied by those who lived here prior to October 2015 so our rents were reset after the new landlord jacked them up $900 in May 2016.

But the COVID 19 hit, and now Zeus Living has not paid for both April and now May rents on agreements until they get a renegotiated rate. Zeus has not been successful at my location. Units have gone empty for at least 90 days every year. My calculations are that under those conditions, they cannot make up for the cost of the units and make a profit.

I can almost be sure that the landlord is having discussions with them. Given that AB 828 is about to possibly entitle them to a 25% discount, along with me, I think my landlord must be dealing with a serious problem here.

Can you imagine if all of a sudden almost half of your building isn't paying rent? And this is not a tenant strike, but a corporate one?

I wonder what is going on with my landlord now.

I just read that the Landlords are PROMISING to suspend Costa Hawkins in this article from COSTAR (Web Link

I guess they KNOW that the ballot measure to repeal it is going to pass this time.

I wonder what information they have.