A few months back, we broke a story about a closed-door rental summit between landlords, tenants and city officials. And they didn't mince words. It is no secret that for 20 years landlords have felt that rent control tenants have been living off their hard-earned gains while the city encourages the economic injustice.
Many landlords are elderly.
They are a politically weak minority that can't fight for themselves. We're being boxed into a corner, and we're in a desperate position. It's gone beyond property rights, it's human rights. The allegations came as no surprise to city officials, who had heard similar indignant speeches in front of the rent board and the council for years. We tried to tell hem how we felt, how oppressed we were.