[lightedman]

"Is the city government elected?"

We've had tons of voter initiatives totally steamrolled by lobbyists in Sactown and SF. We passed a law to restrict rent increases, a couple years later the corporatists got it shut down before it could become a law. doesn't matter if the citizens elect the city government when rich people and rich corporations can come in and literally bribe their way out of anything.

[phpisthebest]

I would love to read more about it, do you have a source of this bribing?

[lightedman]

The original law capped rent increases to 5%. Guess how that turned out for us? Instead, lobbying got it put up to double-digit percentage increases.