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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Mark Kreidler

A California Health Care Ballot Measure Is a Stalking Horse for Battling Landlords

The Madison Hotel is a single room occupancy housing facility in the Skid Row neighborhood of downtown L.A. operated by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Photo: Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

California’s Proposition 34, on the ballot in November, is about a number of things. It’s a clash that involves a couple of high-profile, heavily funded interest groups that have a long history and a bitter backstory, and it features a quixotic but pugnacious battler who has accumulated both foes and lawsuits through the decades.

What it isn’t about is health care. Which is odd, because Prop. 34, as written, looks and sounds like nothing so much as a health care issue.

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