We all hate that 98

With words and music by Tommi Avicolli Mecca and performed by the Peaceniks (Diana Hartman, Jenny Wiley and John Radogno), "We all hate that 98" is a song that denounces the effort by big landlords to repeal rent control in California. Feel free to sing along with us: "We all hate that 98, but 99 is fine. We all hate that landlord scheme to make those profits so obscene..."

How much money do they need to satisfy their endless greed
all the buildings that they own and still they want a bigger bone
and your mother's home lalalalala
CHO
all the seniors they'll evict to make them feel so good and rich
all the kids and single moms shoved out the door into a ditch
without a hitch lalalalala
CHO
now I wonder if their dough will buy them joy and a conscience y'know
if their plan works really well I hope it lands them into hell
where they'll all dwell lalalalala

We all hate that 98 but 99 is fine/ we all hate that landlord scheme to make those profits so obscene
so obscene
so obscene
hate 98!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• prop
• 98
• rent
• control
• 99
• california
• june
• election

[Redpony68]

Thank you California voters!! For seeing through the devious scam that the Pro 98 slime were trying to pawn off as 'reform'.

98 went down in flames!! 61% against it!

[venicefire]

If a landlord had the right to evict drug dealers, gang members, loud tenants, everyone would be a lot happier and there would be better communities. In Los Angeles these people are protected and a landlord has to pay them to leave their property.

[yetanotherforest]

Almost everything you have posted is untrue. Most of the funding for 98 has come from small owners (10 units or less) who make up over 90% of the CA rental market. You are also cringing for no reason since absolutely NOBODY loses their home under 98.. that's the point! Even rent controlled tenants get to stay in their existing homes with the same protections as before. Under current vacancy decontrol law, when a tenant vacates the apartment goes to market rent.

[yetanotherforest]

It does not get rid of the "just cause" provisions. You are either sadly misinformed or outright lying to people. All existing rent controlled tenants are protected just as much as they are today. Nothing changes for them and in fact even today when they move out, rents can be raised to market under the current decontrol laws. The ONLY think that changes under Prop 98 in the new market rents are no longer under rent control. It will just slowly be phased out, is that what you are afraid of?

[Redpony68]

The biggest problem with Prop 98 is mobile homes. Mobile home owners own their home, but rent the space. My grandmother lives in a senior community, and her park owner has already said that when she sells the rent will go from $620 to $1,200, thus making her home worth nothing. He believes that he can then aquire all the mobiles by default and sell the land for development. For this reason alone I am voting NO ON 98, YES ON 99

[ShayePier]

Wealthy landlords spent millions to get Prop. 98 on the ballot to eliminate rent control and other important renter protections like the fair return of deposits. 98 could also stop future water projects, destroy local land-use planning, erode environmental protections and lead to higher taxpayer costs.

[desaltz1]

Dear zjustman, 98 will put people on the streets as it does void current rent control contracts by eliminating the "Just Cause" provision. It will have landlords jamming the courts as fast as they can to get the rest of us OUT ASAP. Working class people have to be able to live in this city. SO door poor & disabled. California is not just for the wealthy.

[desaltz1]

Prop 98 will affect disabled, low-income families, police, fire, schools, and neighborhoods. It will change the face of California. If 99 does not go far enough for you, put a ballot measure that does not evict millions in the process. 98 is the deceptive measure to THROW OUT renters protections. 98 is DANGEROUS to Working class and poor Californians. Mobile Park Multi Millionaire Sam Zell will make an ADDITIONAL FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS by raising the mobile park fees on FIXED INCOOME SENIORS

[zjustman]

Will 99 prevent small business and farmland owners from losing their property to private interests? NO! How about people who have owned their home for less than a year? NO! Ask yourself why such a weak proposition was drafted and it becomes clear that 99 is a trojan horse aimed at defeating prop 98. 98 will not leave people on the streets as it does not void current rent control contracts. 99 does nothing to protect against eminent domain abuse period.

[desaltz1]

Prop. 99 is the straightforward solution PROTECTING AGAINST EMINENT DOMAIN ABUSE. It provides simple, powerful reform by prohibiting government from using eminent domain to take a home to transfer it to a private developer.

Prop. 99 places this vital protection into our state Constitution to ensure that the government cannot remove it without a vote of the people.

Unlike Prop 98, Prop. 99 has NO HIDDEN AGENDA.

Homeowner, community, and senior groups have united to support this critical reform