>Imagine being an absentee landlord who leaches passive income off of your existing properties without reinvesting in the properties or constructing any new housing for decades. And then spending more money to undermine the construction of new housing and target small businesses with additional taxes. The man is how I would draw a cartoon villain of a landlord.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/x3bj8f/how_an_sf_housing_nonprofit_blew_almost_500k_on_a/imou7h7/?sort=controversial

>Because it has nothing to do with the greater good and has everything to do with ego.

No one owns themselves harder than a well intentioned liberal. We're just spectators.

>take taxpayer money to build more housing

>prevent other people from building housing to keep up your own profits

>embezzle that money to tax small bars instead

>refuse to elaborate

Based landchads

While he may have spent $360,000 in TODCO funds on the ballot measure and racked up $90,000 in bills before legal fees to remove the monster that is Prop. K, the 75-year-old in a Grateful Dead hat and Warriors T-shirt seems to take a certain glee in the criticism. Elberling rejects the idea that he should fund a counter-effort to kill it. Instead, TODCO—short for Tenants and Owners Development Corporation—and its political partners will simply channel their efforts into repealing and replacing the measure in next year’s election if it passes.

“Running a ‘no’ campaign? I mean, seriously, that I would be uncomfortable with—that’s just too fricking cute by half,” Elberling said. “You just say, ‘You know what, we fricked up. It didn’t come out the way we wanted to.’ Now we know that. Now we’re going to fix it. Now we’re going to get it right.”

He's fully aware that his idea is irredeemable dogshit that will kill what few small businesses remain in The City by the Gay yet does absolutely nothing to prevent it coming into force.

I hope Elbering is forced to live in SOMA (video game)

Portland is exactly the same way. There's a cabal of super-rich real estate developers who have complete control of the metro area and use their power to stop anyone else from building housing. But they spend a fraction of their income on bribes to the activist/journo class and that's enough to keep "progressives" quiet about them. There's r-slurs here who actually think that this is some kind of "progressive" city just because we've got a naked bike ride.

Spoilers: If over 80% of a company's local business is in an exempt category they are completely exempt from the tax. They decided "Information services" is an exempt category.

Smaller businesses are to be exempt. They decided a good threshold is $2.5 million yearly revenue.

Cool story, bro

Snapshots:

• undelete.pullpush.io

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

• ghostarchive.org (click to archive)

https://sfstandard.com/politics/san-francisco-housing-todco-amazon-tax-prop-k-guaranteed-income/:

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

• ghostarchive.org (click to archive)

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/john-elberling-tax-cheat/:

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

• ghostarchive.org (click to archive)

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