We’ve been shamefully negligent in talking about this (not to mention helping with the drive), but Ted Gullicksen, the SF Tenants Union, and other tenant groups throughout the state have gotten well over a million signatures for an eminent-domain reform measure that protects rent control.

This is one of those situations where landlord groups (led, I understand, largely by the owners of mobile home parks) used people’s concern about eminent domain to try to sneak in an attack on rent control. And zoning. And environmental regulations. It is, essentially, Prop 90’s evil little brother.

In order to address the issue of eminent domain, but without using it as an excuse to gut all popular control over land use, tenants and mobile homeowner groups up and down the state have been working to get this alternative measure on the ballot. Looks like they have succeeded. Now we have to get folks out to vote in what will otherwise be a pretty tedious June election (except, probably, on the East side of San Francisco and in Marin).

You can see more about the measure at saverentcontrol.net

The text of the anti-rent-control measure is here, in PDF.

I am pretty sure that this (also a giant PDF) is the text of the alternative, non-sneak-attack initiative.