privilege years ago, years ago, to actually be working at the north beach family planning clinic for several years. so and i know first hand the importance of for people to receive reproductive health services. about harassment and it was hard enough for many of the young people coming to our or my particular clinic. and feeling comfortable. and so, for me, this is a real good balance of the issues that we are addressing today. which is, the right of women to have access, and the right of people to express their opinions. so, i am glad, i am able to co-sponsor today and strongly support this. and again, thank you for your leadership. >> thank you, supervisor, yee. >> and again, i want to thank all of the members of the

public who have come out for this hearing. on both sides of this issue. you know, for me, it has been sort of a very, very interesting experience to go through this process for the last year and a half. and i grew up catholic, so i am mindful of why certain people, you know, have certain views on this. and i certainly consider myself prolife. but i believe that being prolife does not mean that you don't respect the right of women to decide for themselves what to do with their body. and that is what this is about. that you can still be for choice, and being for choice does not mean that you are in any way, you know, against the dignity in the protection of human life. but, we are talking about here is that the fundamental right for women to decide for themselves whether to have an abortion but to access healthcare and i was very moved in particular by the very

personal comments of women, sharing their own experiences and their own personal histories, with planned parenthood. it is very moving to me, and i think that it is, i really appreciate the fact that people and these women are willing to share that with us. >> and you know, i hear, some of these anti-choice activists and i respect the right to express themselves and talk about how we should support women. well, i want to make a couple of observations. what is really striking to me about what we have seen is that, the very people who are saying that it is a simple, you know, peaceful protest, that there is really nothing harassing going on, are not afraid to point out that when, and ladies and gentlemen, who gave a copy of this picture, you know, who describe someone taking a picture of the protestors of the 40 days for life folks, as harassment and intimidation, i think that

those were the words that he used. and yet, there is no out rage over the fact that for the last year and a half, there has been video taping of every women and every individual who goes into this clinic including the workers. where is the out rage and it is really interesting to see that that was standard. that the very people who are not afraid to intimidate and harass are the first ones to say my rights are being violated. well it does not work that way. you cannot talk about protecting your own rights if you are willing to infringe upon the rights of other people. and something else that really bothers me to be honest is someone who represents a very diverse district where we have, you know, certainly some wealthy folks and we also have many, poor, working class, middle class women. is that when you see the protests that you see, the anti-choice, protests, they are

not happening on in the wealthy parts of the city, where wealthy women are accessing healthcare. they are targeting neighborhoods where you have low income women, working class women, middle class women that may not have the resources to access these services. and that is where they are focusing their protests. and i think that is wrong. i think that it is wrong because i think that what they are doing is going after the most vulnerable. the people that need that assistance, that need access to healthcare. and you know, i have no problem, people standing out information and you know they have a right to provide these pamphlets but if you look at the content of these pamphlets i respectfully submit that i don't see that many of the points that they make here are grounded on scientific evidence. you know, i think that there is a lot in this information and a

lot of tactics about the dangers of abortion and they have the right to provide that information but they don't have the right to intimidate women and so that is what this is about and so i want to thank all of you who came out and all of the different organizations, narol, of course, i want to thank, credo is amazing to see a company, of san francisco based company in every sense of the word to see what they are doing that the woman's political committee and the health clinic and so many that have come out. but more importantly, i want to thank planned parenthood for what they do on a daily basis. and i was very moved to hear that the last comment from the husband whose wife works at planned parenthood. you know, i am amazed at how brave the people who work at planned parenthood are on a single day you are putting your

own personal safety on the line because you believe in what you are doing. and the thing is that it is truly about respecting women to make those choices for themselves and i am so proud to be a part of this, my hope is that when it moves forward to the board of supervisors that we get an 11-0 vote and that it is signed by the mayor as quickly as possible. so with that, if we could have a motion to move this item forward? >> moved. >> so we have a motion by supervisor yee, we can do that without objection. >> thank you, very much. for being here. >> mr. clerk, is there any other business before this committee >> that concludes the agenda, mr. chair. >> thank you. >> meeting ajournd.

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. >> okay. i don't have a gavel but let's pretend i banged the gavel. i am tommi mecca and i am the chair for the lgbt aging

policy task force and the first business is roll call of the members. jazzy collins. >> present. >> jorge rodriquez. >> present. >> stu smith. >> present. >> and myself present. are there public comment for items not on the agenda? what's on the agenda is senior lgbt housing needs and concerns, so if anybody has comments on anything other than lgbt senior housing concerns and needs they should come up to the podium now. okay. seeing no comments we will proceed to regular business, and there is only one item on the jernd and if anybody would like an agenda. why don't you pass them out craig if you could and

also if you could bring a couple up here as well, so the discussion item for today is -- we're holding i will read the official announcement. the housing sub some of the san francisco lgbt aging task force is having a hearing into the concerns of lgbt seniors. this is part of the investigation of the housing needs of lgbt seniors. all lgbt seniors are welcome to testify about their housing concerns no matter the type they live in, rent control, or other subsidized units, a sro, a shelter, a home that they own, et cetera. seniors are welcome to talk about the shelters and difficulties finding a place to live and also

threats of evictions, actual evictions or other evictions and not safeo secure or has a infestation, foreclosure, any other concern to lgbt seniors, so to testify i don't see any cards around so i will ask people just to line up if they want to testify. you can line up on either side. it's probably better to line up on that side so we don't block the door, and basically we're going to give you two minutes but we're going to be flexible if you should happen to need more time, but we're going to ask you if you could to keep it to two minutes and finally if you know someone that couldn't be here for some reason they

can submit written testimony. we will take written testimony and you can get an email address from one of us to send written testimony and i have written testimony from two individual who is these will be read into the record this morning and unless there are comments from the sitting members. >> mr. chair. no comment. let's proceed with the hearing. >> great. anyone else? okay. let's begin with the hearing. first person please. >> hi. good morning -- [inaudible] >> it's not working very well. >> good morning. i am tom [inaudible]. i'm a member of the advisory committee of the san francisco human rights commission and i am here to discuss an issue i had with chinatown community development and their lottery for mary hellen rogers. hi a low lottery number. i was called in for an interview. i received a letter

stating that lease signing would be january 15 -- lease signing, not move in. i was scheduled for spine surgery on that date. prior to that time i was walking with a cane or a walker. i went in and asked for reasonable accommodation to delay the lease signing and i was told i was supposed to move in on january 15 also, so one thing lead to another, and i wound up losing my place in the lottery and my apartment in mary helen rogers. that is briefly what happened. i have written testimony that is longer that goes into detail but it was a stressful, horrendous whole situation that they put me through and they wouldn't give me reasonable accommodation for the american disability act because i was having surgery on that day. >> are you finished?

>> yeah. >> can i ask you some questions. have you filed at human rights commission? my understanding is they have to give you reasonable accommodation. >> no. i didn't file with the human rights commission because i am on one of the committees and i didn't know if that was a conflict of interest because i'm on a committee so i didn't file with the human rights commission. i made a complaint to hud, whether that is being followed up or not i don't know. >> who is "they" that you refer to? >> chinatown development company and the people at the mary helen rogers. mark lopez and the property manager and i have talked to other people and apparently i'm not the only person they tried to force in there without -- without even viewing an apartment. i couldn't see an apartment. i

couldn't go into an apartment and they wanted me to move into the apartment on january 15, and i have a subsidy so i'm only allowed one residence and they wanted me to have double residence which means i would have to pay out of pocket for one of the places for 15 days plus pay movers. at the time i couldn't walk. i was using a cane or a walker and i couldn't do anything. >> is the current housing under china development corp? >> yes it is. >> is that stable? is that safe? >> i have issues with crescent cove because one of the employees called me a fagot and since that time i have been on the watch list with them, and recently we have a fire alarm testing and when i came become after the testing it really

looked like my apartment had gone been gone through. you live there and i am not concerned. if they want to look let them look because there is nothing to see. >> good morning. i do have a question for you. have you checked with any other departments, whether city, state, or federal department that you addressed with? any other department out of the human rights commission here in san francisco? >> well, as i said i didn't address it with the human rights commission because i felt i was on a committee i thought it wouldn't be right, a conflict of interest i thought maybe, but i did contact hud, housing urban development. >> what's the status at hud? >> they have not contacted me back. they said they would investigate and that's the last i heard of it. >> how long was that some. >> that was back in january right after this happened and

after it all happened it was just like the whole thing went by the way side so now i'm not eligible for an permanent in mary helen rogers. >> >> >> wow, i suggest you get back to hud and sometimes you have to stay on top of them. >> will do. >> any other questions from the thank -- sub committee? thank you very much. a resource right in the room. how many copies do you have? two. we can share them. thank you very much. next. >> good morning. i am bill hirsch and the director of the aids legal panel and provide services to people living with hiv/aids and as you may know 50% of the folks living with hiv in san francisco are older than

50. i wanted to make one point before i go into my presentation. while fair housing law does require a land lor to require a reasonable accommodation it doesn't say they grant it. it simply states that a conversation goes on with what would work with the individual with the qualified disability, but i wanted to first focus on the housing work that alrp does. we provide two staff attorneys who focus exclusively on housing. i could have a small army of attorneys working exclusively on housing issues. we handled over 630 housing cases last year. of our housing clients more than 80% are lgbt and more than 60% of our clients are over 50. we handle a full array of legal

issues, so everything from evictions to habitablity to rent increases. we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of evictions. many are for owner move in and evictions and as you're away the ellis act doesn't have to be filed in order for the individual to be threatened with the ellis act eviction and they have to negotiate with the landlord because there know there is no defense to the ellis act eviction so those kinds of evictions are on the rise and concern for our clients because there are many people in rent controlled unit for a long time who are at risk of losing their housing, but the other big challenge i point out is something we are concerned about and there are many individuals with hiv/aids who have been

living off of the income from a long-term disability policy. it's a policy that they either bought on their own or secured through previous employment and those folks -- >> i'm sorry, can i interrupt you because it looks like we're not televising and i want to make sure we get -- i'm going to call the guy who was in here earlier bud and see what is going on. sorry about that folks but we have no control over the television. >> i have notorious bad karma with technology so i may have brought the system down. >> i don't think so. i think there has been a problem with this all along. sorry, i'm having trouble with this. i'm having trouble with technology as well this morning. sorry

folks. oh we're back on. just like magic. can you go back a few sentences? >> sure. we have been seeing a dramatic increase in the number of evictions for what i would say are no fault evictions. over move in evictions, ellis act evictions. as you know for ellis act eviction there is is no defense so oftentimes we see people threatened with it so they don't face the actual lawsuit but they are forced to negotiate with the landlord to get the best terms of agreement to leave because there is no defense to the lawsuit, so we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of folks at risk of losing affordable housing because they have b