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How affordable housing in National City became a cash machine for San Diego County labor unions
July 9, 2025 // Public records show these same union leaders, who manage the coalition and the apartments, also direct political action committees that help channel rent and laundry payments into various political causes. Since 2016, about 11 cents of every dollar collected from tenants has been used to influence elections for city councils and school boards across the region, finance ballot initiatives that advance labor interests and pay these same union leaders six-figure salaries.