We have been remiss in announcing the No on 98 rally today, at noon, at Civic Center.

The Chronicle wrote a typically terrible article about it today, repeating the canard that rent control somehow stops people from building housing. The truth is that no housing built in San Francisco in the last 29 years has been subject to rent control. So unless developers were planning on going back in time three decades to sneak in some four-unit buildings, I think the argument’s pretty damn crappy. More likely causes of the lack of rental housing are the real estate bubble, but more systematically the way building housing for sale generates short term, rather than the long-term profits of rental housing.

But hey, it’s easier to blame rent control than to hurt one’s head thinking about actual financial interests.

Come to the rally today, and then help forge new territory in the on-track effort to get out over a hundred thousand pieces of literature in San Francisco. This week: the Marina!

Saturday, May 10, 11 AM at the Marina Library, 1890 Chestnut (at Fillmore, which is where the 22 bus runs)