canibalize >> we can't afford to lose further rent control and housing in san francisco. and the stocks have been diminished enough and can't be replaced and again, i can't say it enough that it is lost forever, we need to protect that, i am seeing more eviction and more elders that are coming into my office and it is heart breaking because these elders and people with disability are scared. they are scared, of being intimidated and it is, it is very life changing and a lot of these are ellis acts and i understand that the percentages of ellis acts, evictions has gone through the roof within the last year. i think that the legislation is fair and it does provide a solution to tic owners. s and it is really not about

putting tenants against the tic owners, it is about protecting current rent control housing for the future, while allowing current owners to convert to condos and being able to refinance. and holding accountable that caused a lot of this to happen and the banks from displacing tenants and the owners themselves by curbing the future speculation. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] . >> good afternoon, my name is marin asorena. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> i work at young displacement and i fully support the amended legislation and i think that supervisor chiu and all of the others who have worked so hard to craft a legislation that is able to take into consideration the needs of the tenants, and the need for tenants to be able to stay in san francisco, and i have been in san francisco for 40 years and i don't want to go anywhere and neither do any of my neighbors. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] . >> this is a call for housing of the human rights.

>> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> and i think that all of those that are against speculation especially speculation on the backs of our working of the workers that move san francisco, and make and our san francisco back bone. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> we are not the enemies of the people that are trying to make money, but we are the enemies of speculation and displacement and injustice. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] we are the enemies of all those who accumulate the profit and

capitols on the back of workers. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> we are the enemies of banks that accumulate profit and money, by raising housing costs and forclosing on family and tenants. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> we are not the enemies of tic owners that wish to own a flat or a unit inside of a building, but we are the enemies of all of those that have decided to line their pockets under the name of tic and displaced and evicted thousands from our neighborhoods. >>

[ speaking in a foreign language ] >> it is shameful that in the year that we are and in the city that we are being san francisco, there are more than 7,000 homeless families more than 7,000 homeless people and a lot of them family and children on the streets right now. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> i agree that property owners cannot be mother teresas and that they have their own interest but i think there needs to be a base line for human rights on housing, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> or ma'am, were you also speaking on your behalf. >> great. thank you. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> i have lived in the mission district for over 34 and a half years, and i am a member of (inaudible) hosta. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> i have raised my five children in the unit that i currently live in and everything was fine until five years ago i started seeing an increase in evictions and an increase in injustices done in my neighborhood especially to elders. [ speaking in a foreign language ]

>> in november, 2012, i received ellis acts notice evicting and stating that i and my family would be evicted the impass that this has on my family and the other tenants in the building which are also seniors is massive. >> this has caused an incredible amount of stress for me and my family and we are facing medical problems that we have had not faced before and we are an insecure place where

we don't know what is going to happen to us because it is not easy to find housing in san francisco and it is harder to find affordable housing. >> we ask our city government, and but you take us into consideration, and you work to insure that we are, and that us and our neighborhoods and families are protected against eviction and we are able to stay in our homes. >> the clock is still running. >> thank you. >> gale (inaudible) of district eight and the big compromise i read the amendments and listen to the tenant activists and service providers make their peace with, if they are willing to swallow this crap so can i in new district eight. we look to these people as

leaders of our community, working for tenant's rights and having renter's best interest in hand, these so-called leader of our community work with the people on a daily basis and know better than me, someone who sees the homeless people on a nightly basis, with the homeless at pearl and market street, or the countless homeless people sleeping in doorways all up in market street and into the castro district eight. supervisor weiner says that district eight has the most tics and so when this passes out of committee, and full board, only time will tell if this compromise has worked for renters and voters of district eight. i believe this should have gone to voters, and not to the profit or the political piggy banks of supervisors. i am sure that plan c realty

will be very happy with this compromise, the ultimate plan is to get rid of rent control and push more gay men out of district eight and eight to more homeless people and so i feel for the tenants and the tic owners are house flippers thank you. >> speaker? >> thank you, steve caler and with the organization on supports of the amendments of supervisor chiu, kim, and yee, we represent more people and most activations as their lawyers defending tenants against eviction and any other and definitely any other law office in the city. we have seen an increase in the last six months in ellis act evictions because of the hot real estate market. we need to do something to stop real estate speculation and these sets of amendments goes a

long way to doing that. you know, when the tic owners came before us and said, hey we want amendments to the condo law so that we can get out from under this bad tic argument, we said, okay, we will give you that, and when they said don't worry we will have and we will keep our tenants and a lifetime lease the one thing that we want is the sus expensing of the lottery to stop the real estate speculation and other reforms in the condo law to take the large unit buildings out of conversion is what we have asked for in return and this compromise is exactly that. it is something that where the tell ants get something and the tic owners get something. you know who don't get anything? the evicters, the large property owners and the people that can afford to have two buildings like the women in the front row and they don't get anything out of it and they should not.

thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is lori (inaudible) and i am a 38 year resident of san francisco. this legislation may have been well intended for the owners who have struggled to deal with the restrictions. but they are the only home owners with outrageous loan conditions by the banking trees and not alone in facing threats to the housing as the previous speaker did in an increase in evictions but intentional or not, without all of the proposed amendments this would open the flood gates to the real estate interests who have profited from the step by step conversion of rent controlled units to tics and condos, all of the amendments that have been offered are essential for this city to have any chance of economic diversity. sadly, our saturday is moving

rapidly to increased poverty and increased gaps between poverty and wealth. and san francisco has a high concentration of wealth and increasing poverty and a dramatic shortage of affordable housing, what we need is proactive legislation, and advocating for working class housing in this city, both current and future, not just as amendments offered in reaction to blunt legislation that was designed to assist those lucky enough to have 20,000 available in the bank accounts to reduce the long term debt and the legislation that would grace the wheels of speculation and fortunately they offer to this legislation goes some distance to restore vital protection and to make it more than an empty slogan and please adopt all of the amendments. >> thank you. next speaker and we do have three speakers in line, i don't have any other cards, so please

just get in line if you are interested in speaking in public comment. >> thank you very much for your patience this afternoon, my name is carolyn mcken that and my husband and i live in hate ash bury where he has owned the building for 38 and lived in the building for 27 years and we moved at various times for jobs that is what working people do. there is a lot of hyperboly in the information and a lot of exaggeration and so i want to tell you about my story as a tic owner so that you can have an opportunity to hear another side of it. when my husband purchased his piece of san francisco in 1975, he intended to leave in one unit and provide housing in the other two units the rental income was to be as retirement income. the rules changed and that turned out not to be an option.

our plan b is to convert it to condos, and sell them to generate retirement income. these amendments are essentially now pulling the rug out from under that plan, we are now 61 years old and we continue to work to provide for our retirement, but the rules of being changed in the 9th inning, please consider the quiet people who have not come today who need your assistance. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> >> hi, sorry. >> my name is tony (inaudible) and i am a voluntary organizer with 500 organizations for social injustice in san francisco. i also listen to friends in the labor and rights movements which i want an opinion on what is good or bad.

so i just wanted to talk for five seconds about condo conversion and what it means. condo conversion, i think without a doubt is the last protection of the rental stock that we have. for many different reasons, increases in condos will drive up the rental market. that being said i think that the moratorium is the best compromise that this has come to and i support it as amended right now with no further down the line compromises. i want to talk about the idea of crisis and the home owner's crisis and with respect to the many tic owners who are in foreclosure right now. the fact is that san francisco has been in foreclosure crisis for the last since the economy crash, last year was a bad year which impacted all of our rentals and there has been ways to look at organizing and supporting the community around that and i think that it is hard for me to see this group as being exceptional in wanting

protection with all due respect. and i just want to talk on the mission resident and right now, the average price of a 1, bedroom is like 2,000 or something, and somewhere in that ballpark and i looked at craig's list and the rentals have gone up since the last time i have done the shares. if we are going to talk about crisis in san francisco and what affordablebility is and it is a crisis in the rental market and for the working population that rents and lives in san francisco that we are being pushed out not just a talking point it is reality. being that this is the economic development committee i would imp lore the city to look for creative options are we being more condos or housing that people can afford. i think that you guys have the power to do that. and just very last, as a member of the san francisco lgbt community, i want to pull at

the heart strings where we have taken a creative and bold stand against law to make changes and i think that we feel that we can challenge other laws down the pipeline thank you. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, supervisors, sue von and i am supporting the amendments from chiu and lee and i think that it is our best option and it will shut down the lottery for buildings with five or six units and down the line. i am going to ask for one additional change and that is to include adopted family members somewhere in the legislation when i was reading it over the weekend, in terms of getting the lifetime leases and it jumped out at me, when i was reading the legislation over the weekend if you could find that. again, i remain reluctant to

support. they are the largest source of affordable housing and i work, where i work, most of my colleagues don't live in the city because they can't afford to. and they drive into the city to work which is exactly the opposite of what they want them to do and we want them to be in the city taking public transportation and we need to be focusing on increasing the supply of affordable housing and seeking to expand on the mass transit. instead our efforts as you can see are being diverted into this fight to preserve a little bit of affordable housing here in san francisco. and again, it is being created by the finance capital, and all of the things that have not been addressed nationally and globally. and i wish that you would like at fixing that, thank you. >> next speaker. good afternoon, supervisors, my name is (inaudible) with the

council of community housing organizations and as we repeatedly say we are a coalition of affordable housing developers and community development advocates and but we are also part of a broader housing movement that includes our brothers and sisters who are here supporting the alternative to this legislation, including members from the 8th housing alliance and the (inaudible) community development center and housing rights committee of san francisco, the san francisco tenantcy and the housing clinic and the community tenants association and kol man advocates ace, (inaudible) and many others. we are here to support the alternative, that has been presented on sponsored by supervisor chiu and yee, in supported by chius kim, mar, campos and avalos. and i think that it is interesting the introduction comments made by ferrill on what he saw as at goal for this conversion, he laid out three goals to support, the current

tic owners to refinance and to protect the buildings and third to create a pool of money for affordable housing, and then went on to state his opposition that he would not support the community alternative stating his objections that there was a ten year moratorium which does nothing against three goals at the beginning. and that there were owner occupancy requirements in the future that again do nothing against the first three goals and something that was a little hard to understand, that new tic owners would in the future would not be able to get into a lottery that is into the past, which did not make much sense. i think one of the things that we need to all agree on is who we are trying to support and i think it is very telling that we did not see very many tic owners posed in this legislation, in fact it is

what... >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is ron smith and i want to vig yusly support what has been proposed. as a walked from the castro i passed four huge construction projects under way, one, 115 modern luxury condos and i also passed 2 people who were struggling up the grade toward the recycling center with their push baskets overloaded with recyclables. i passed in the option of, i passed in the afternoon, i was

for lunch and i was sitting there having a bowl of soup, three people got up from the table next to me and started to leave. and a man came in from the street and immediately started scoop up left overs from their plates and he was immediately taken away. it is difficult, i passed 27 other people who would be classified as homeless in this city, i am a retired teacher and i know and i have read the statistics about the numbers of children who are living with their familis in cars, now. and i'm saying to you, that we definitely need restrictions regarding the kinds of rental properties that are available to us.

it is something that we cherish and i would like you to consider that and for all of those people who are down and out and unable to be here for themselves. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> i also wanted to say that i actually marked my car and i am kind of confused i want to mark it support the amendment for it and against the tic conversions and also, (inaudible) for the sake of this argument (inaudible) affordable housing from san francisco and what we need is rent control housing and $500,000 and now $800,000 for a median home and ranging beyond for those people and some of us can afford to rent if it is rent control and so if i would like to have the rent control to stop and i also wanted to address what the previous speaker said and something that you said about that she has never seen a

tenant out and i have done it and we don't wear labels. and i don't know how she will know if we are tenants and also to force the land lords to force to keep up to you like they should. next speaker. i am a counselor with the san francisco union.. san franciscoan woulds say that they love the city and it was diversity. as counselor with the san francisco tenant union i am a diverse group and i must say that i disagree with the comment that the tic owners are the true middle class, it is true that the middle class is shrinking but i can tell you that if you are most concerned about protecting that group you will find them among the

tenants in san francisco. along with the groups they are the victims of bogas evictions and it saddens me when i see productive, talented responsible citizens that are driven out by the attacks on the affordable rents. and we elect our supervisors with the hope that they have the wisdom and the vision to preserve the city that is loved by citizens and also others all over the world. >> today we ask you to be the supervisors for the true, san francisco. not the supervisors for the real estate speculators. preserve the essence of san francisco, and keep our city diverse, and by stopping the loss of affordable rent and support the amended legislation, thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> members of the board, i am with the china town community

development center and i want to speak to a couple of the issues that supervisor ferrell raised and address the issues that was raised. first off with respect to the ten-year, minimum suspension, the reason that we need the suspension is because we need to cool out this market. the purpose is not related to the number of converted units. we need the suspension, even if there were no converted units. we need the testimony earlier today by tenants who are being evicted and the seniors who are being displaced by the evictions that are used as a direct result in the defects in that law which allow to the creation of the tics without respect to the number of condo lottery slots that are created it is an unsustainable path of growth that tic speculators have created. that is why we have more than 2500, a backlog of more than

2500 units in the current lottery. and so, we have a speculative investment real estate market which is generating more and more tic sales and based upon the evictions of the tenants that we need a ten year suspension is to clear that market out and send a message that they will need to wait a while before they are going to be able to convert. secondly with respect to the increased ownership requirements. we need this, we need to, it is very clear and also because of this current buffer, that we cannot allow the number of tic, and continuing on the creation with the existing cap on lottery, we need to target the group, and the purpose of increasing the ownership requirement is to direct, future condo conversions to ownership units that is the very type of ownership that mr.

ferrill promotes. that is why we need the two protections, a minimum ten year and narrow the future lottery. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> can you hear me from here? >> it would be better if you could pull that down. >> great. >> so the people on tv can hear you too. >> good afternoon, supervisors miem the jessica layman and i am the senior director of seniors action, we build together the people to build a voice for those community and we are very concerned about the loss of units and the rise of evictions we hear about people who are being evicted or it seems like the popular thing is to harass the people until they leave so-called voluntarily, it is nobody choice to leave a unit that they have lived in for years when they feel like

they have nowhere else to go. >> so many of the seniors and people that we work with don't have other options people are talking about having to leave san francisco and that is where the support networks are and get the resource and services. we need to protect the communities by protecting the rent controlled units and so we are concerned about this and the condo conversion. we do support the compromise and we think that it is meeting the needs of the people involved and looking at protecting the poor people and the tenants in san francisco who desperately need affordable housing, we urge you to support the compromise. thank you. >> next speaker. >> housing and (inaudible) committee of san francisco. when the original legislation was first introduced we were told that the purported intent