they are clearly land devils

not land lords.

I am not saying all landlords are evil. Just all the ones I've ever heard about in this City. I'm guessing the good ones aren't talked about. Or he's just a shy guy. A non-random sample seems to indicate that SF landlords are in fact evil.

And when they don't get their way on one issue, they'll spend a fortune as a group to destroy a new hospital for the needy.

I don't believe landlords wonder why everyone who is not wealthy despises them. I think they just don't care.

From Curbed SF: Landlords Slap the Spite on SF General

Just when we started thinking that the SF General Hospital overhaul would go off without a hitch, some landlords have jumped in to ruin the fun for everyone. Why? Political spite, of course: It seems that city law allows property owners to pass on a portion of a water system tax to their tenants, but despite repeated promises from the Newsom administration, they are not permitted to do the same with a tax for sewer-related projects. This, they feel, is unjust, and a lobbyist for the city's landlords had promised to take their frustrations out on the hospital bond — and now that's exactly what has happened. So The Coalition for Better Housing has mobilized a well-financed committee to work against Proposition A, the $888 million bond that will fund the SF General update.

Curbed SF even reports that Supervisor Aaron Peskin actually said regarding the landlord lobby: "I'm not interested in negotiating with terrorists."


It should also be noted that fixing and expanding the General is entirely necessary for the security of the City--and for all of its citizens. (I.e. including the landlords who are spending money to stop it because they are bitter against the City for not being allowed to pass sewer taxes through to tenants.)

The San Francisco General Hospital is the only trauma center in or near the City. The nearest alternate trauma center, you know if you get shot or a building falls on you, is at Stanford.

Fixing the General is not only a good idea, it is essential to the survival of a metropolis built on a fault line.

This action makes it look like the landlord lobby is greedy enough and bitter enough to want us all to suffer and die in the case of an emergency. Perhaps they thought their reputation couldn't get any worse, so why not?