ever been taken to the building he's taken to the rent berd and had it passed down to us. we've paid for every improvement ever done in 25 years and now we have to leave. thank you, supervisor campos, for mentioning my thought today. once the advocates and artists are gone, who will be left in our city? this is the heart and soul. >> thank you, next speaker, thank you, miss upton. >> i am beverly naylor, i am a musician, as is my husband, and we mentor youth in music in the neighborhood. we also open our home up every morning to a bris, we've been doing that for 12 years, many of them are here today, some of them have elected to come and stand with us. so i feel that we are really community activists in soipl ways in terms of bringing people together. i know many people who are here in support of us and our buddhist community also face the fears that we do. every day since this has happened my husband and i when the mail comes, we're, like, who's going to come look at the mail? it's a very scary time. in particular i want to bring up the tic loophole is a real concern that i think is facing beverly and i in that the profit to be made by evicting us and then being able to sell our units as tic units is most likely what our land lord is going to try and do. so that's a real fear. and i worry, i do worry about who will be left to live here. i know on our block we don't have any more children on our block. there's a school

right there but those kids are being brought in from other parts of the city. i don't know if that was one minute or two minutes. i don't see any more kids in the neighborhood. i worry a lot about our musical community, especially since there are less music being taught in the schools and i feel like my husband and i really contribute a lot to that, as do a lot of artists in the city in terms of raising the artists of our next generation in this beautiful city we live in. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you so much for listening to me. >> if you can speak into the mic to make sure we hear you, thank you. >> i came to support jackie and beverly but i was prepared up here when i looked around and found that there were not many african americans in the group and i know they are impacted by the situation. i have a personal story because i have a daughter who has mental

illness and no one has addressed that today, unfortunately. it's a real crisis in the city. my daughter is my heart and i'm doing everything i can to solve my own problem. however, i am finding that in this city i cannot consider moving to a 3-bedroom apartment, which i would need to support her and have her live with me and take care of her so that she is not exposed to whatever is out there. when she is discharged from hospital she is being sent to sro's and she is being sent to shelters because there's nothing else. there's no way that a person who is ill can recover in any way by being sent to these places. she is being sent there because there is no housing for the mentally ill. in addition, in addition, she is only allowed, she is only

given a certain amount of money which is not enough to get housing in this city. i cannot on my own move to a 3-bedroom apartment in san francisco. we are having to consider leaving the city completely and i love san francisco, i have lived here 5 years before she was born so i've lived here for 35 years and now i will have to leave because there's no way that i can go on in this situation. i really hope that we are recognizing the real crisis we are facing in the city of san francisco. it's becoming a place only for those who can afford. thank you very much. >> thank you. i want to note something. the letter that miss upton was referencing, i guess tes a question of perspective but it's interesting how the letter notes that the attorney for the landlord notes that after talking about the threat of the

ellis act eviction it says, there is a win-win alternative to eviction. i guess the win-win is for the parties to make a settlement whereby you would vacate your unit in exchange for a payment of money. interesting perspective, win-win. >> thank you, afternoon, i am a tenant at 1049 just down the street. i would like to say as a life long resident of the city i've never lived in a legal tenant -- residency of my own aside from my mours, my families, but the moment i moved out of their house i have

gone from garage to storefront and the latest housing i found was 1049 which i assume was legal. i feel there is an issue in the city with illegal units, there's a lot of illegal units and i think it would be great to address that in a way that makes the housing that is available there accessible for people. i know in our own situation finding out that we were living in an illegal unit and also having that play a big part in our own eviction was very, you know, discouraging and the nature of the eviction itself was very discouraging. i don't know how indicative this is of evictions in general but i have not heard of many evictions that don't follow a similar pattern of very very predatory and very very aggressive behavior. we had people in the building who were, moved into the building two months prior to the

eviction, i'm sure full well, not knowing they were going to be evicted obviously but the land lords most certainly have known they would be evicted two months later. we have a cleaning lady in the building who has been there 15 years at least, keeping the place immackulate, we appreciate everything she has done, she was asked to leave 3 months ago without any recourse and she has been not paid and myself having been, never seen -- put a -- i would go on but i do feel that it's very, very much an issue that needs to be addressed. >> thank you, sir. let me read a few more names (calling

names).

>> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is carl melindez and i am a member of just cause. i think it's time we begin acting in the well-being of our community. i have the opportunity to be privy to the problems of my community as i am a volunteer at just cause. one day i saw three cases come into our office where people were roughly evicted. when they came back home from work, even though they were completely up to date on their rent, they found that their locks have

been changed. of these 3 people, the one person, the one person's case who impacted me the most and made me so sad and so angry at the same time was a single mom with two kids. one of her children has asthma and the landlord didn't even let the mom ensure that she had all of her child's medication before

locking the whole family out of their home. after the tenant asked and asked and with the help of advocates this mom was able to go back into her home and pick up her children's medicine, but was unable to recuperate any of her belongings.

another day i took the time to count how many people were cuping into our office and i counted 30 different people who had come into our office only on one day with different cases. all of them were somehow an eviction. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is

anna guiterrez and i am being impacted by the ellis act. on monday our one year extension is going to be up. for a year, me and my son have been looking for a place to live and we have found nothing in san francisco. i'm here to ask supervisors that we do something to stop these predatory evictions that target seniors, people with

disabilities. this injustice has to end now. i have lived in the mission district for 35 years and i have seen too many of my neighbors evicted and it doesn't seem to stop. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> mr. campos, hi, my name is --. >> if you can speak into the mic so we can all hear. thank you very much. >> hi, my name is melissa and i am coming 6 generations in the mission district. i am miss placed discrimination. i am an army brat. my family has come to the mission due to displacement, thrown off the railroad when my native american -- i have a section 8 public housing voucher, my family has never been on aid, that was the only way i was able to reside in the mission

which it is now not paying out at fair market value. i have lived in a single family home for 10 years which there is a loophole. there is no rent control. i have 4 children and the only way i was able to stay in the neighborhood was with the help of my voucher. my father has now been passed on for 30 years, which he was a relocation supervisor of the native american disscent, a california indian. he was a navaho and apache. i am with the mono napono frieb. i am a native american of yosemite where san francisco gets their water. we were forced to live in the mission in order to live and not be killed. i have now

been homeless for 3 months. i cannot find any housing and i have worked for all boards for about two years. my family, we own the mohawk gas station on 25th and south van ness which was threatened to be burned along with all artifacts due to the 70's. i come with the reyes family and serve on the native american title board 7. if i can't find affordable housing there won't be a way i can stay in the city. >> thank you, i appreciate that. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is jessica manolo with the housing program and we work with over 800 clients doing housing case management. first of all thank you for

calling this hearing. it is definitely essential. we see in san francisco that affordable housing is lacking tremendously with endless wait lists. we have seen numerous families in the south of market where he will ils evictions, false owner move-ins and where landlords have offered these nominal buyouts. they have been long-term tenants for 2 to 3 decades and efficient departmently san francisco's rapidly rising of rents and displacement is atrocious. their families and seniors are being forced out of their homes in all neighborhoods of san francisco. these evictions, buyouts, really disrupt these families and seniors. we have it talk about really how it effects them mentally, the stress that it causes. the children, sometimes they are, you know, it disrupts them, you know, with their school work.

so, you know, we really need to find ways and the policies presented today are steps toward protecting and keeping families in their homes in san francisco and we thank you for pulling this together and look forward to really addressing this epidemic. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm sorry, it's confusing for me because i translate for everybody. but my name is marie and and i'm the san francisco housing rights organizer with casa

gusted just cause. i have been in rooms full of women, mothers, the caretakers of their families who tell me how they defy all kinds of mathematic logic who pay over 75 percent of their income for rent. i have talked it teens who worry about losing all their friends when -- not if, but when -- i have been in rooms that house more than 4 people, too many houses with mold, leaks, blood and broken windows. all the while i walk between 24th and 16th street on mission and see at least 5 market rate developments and that number is growing. more and more skaffolding in front of victorians. we're being organized in our neighborhood but it's for the people being pushed out. we

want renovation in our neighborhoods, we want cleaner streets, more trees and open space, but we want it for the people currently living in san francisco, the people that make this city our work force, our immigrants, our families, our seniors, our people of color. if these 10 amounts are not priorityized and are at the core of development projects in the city then the trends we have reviewed today are going to continue. supervisor yee asked what are the reasons for this? it's because housing is for profit, because people can make an incredible amount of money on housing. it's not for people, it's not for families. until that changes in our city, until speculation and the market is regulated strongly, we're not going to see a difference. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is henry ostendorf and i've lived in san francisco for 25 years. the city has been really good

to me, i earned a master's degree at san francisco state and i've been a counselor for many years mostly working with homeless and disabled people. i lived in a little studio on knob hill for many years on rent control and 5 years ago i moved into a below market rate unit in hayes valley just around the corner where these two ladies live on goth street. i've been really lucky, my housing is secure, i can't be evicted, i don't plan on being evicted from that below market rate building. my concern is so many of my friends, so many of the people i have worked with over the years are so fearful right now that it seems like a state of emergency should be declared around housing. there seems like there have been so many give aways for developers. i'm a real fan of inclusive housing. when a developer builds a building, put some people in it who can't afford market rate but that isn't

happening in many cases. the city is taking money, putting it into a fund, these buildings are going up like at 38 dolores street. insofar as i know they put money into a fund but that housing i don't believe is being built yet. i would love to see a time when developers give the money first to the city. if they don't want poor people living in their building, give the money to the city, build that housing then go back and break ground on the market rate development. let them prove that they really give a shit because i don't think they do (applause). >> thank you, next speaker. >> hi, supervisor mar, supervisor campos and supervisor yee, there's no irony for me that this hearing is being held. i will just mention that i am with senior and disability action and i actually was introduced to

supervisor campos as a result of an ellis act eviction. we both witnessed a man who had been living in his home near saint luke's hospital for 47 years, he had his mother and grand mother who had both lived in the same unit and he was the last remaining of his family and after 12 years of successfully so low fighting through the court system, the investor brothers got two $400 an hour attorneys who ended up allowing the ellis act eviction to occur and this man at 82 was thrown to the street, literally. so this kind of unfairness obviously needs to be addressed and i do appreciate the work of mr. ammiano and mr. leno in this affair, but as i recall the legislation that was brought forth by mr. leno was

vetoed and several other of them have been vetoed by jerry brown. so we need to increase the pressure on the governor of this state as well related to ellis act evictions and i certainly applaud everything you are doing here in the city. i will also tell you that i know two disabled persons and one senior who are all receiving in house pressure. the senior is receiving pressure regularly and constantly and has for years from his land lord to move out of the building because he's been there over 30 years. my friend, who has been in her rent controlled apartment for 35 years, is disabled, as is another disabled woman that i know, have been long-term tenants and they are being pressured by inside forces. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is anna marie, i have lived in the mission district for 18 years

and i am being offered a buyout for my apartment. i have been offered or told by the lawyer that if i find roommates in the future he must approve them and he will serve them with a 614. that tells me whoever i find as a roommate he will refuse because i won't be able to afford the rent. i said i would consider talking with a buyout but i'm not going to be bought out of my 24th street apartment for less than $650,000 and i hope he knows that. anyone who has been a master tenant or anybody that has a master tenant relationship to go to the rent board and find out what the law is. i would really appreciate it if there was some way you guys could work the system to make it illegal, unconstitutional, the ellis act because it's unconstitutional. we deserve life, liberty and happiness and that's not happening. wet ellis act first

went through i worked as a counselor for the tenants rights union and i am still in shock it could have ever gone through. if anything, if they are going to keep it they should add that anybody has kicked out by an ellis act that the people who are kicked out get 50 percent of the profit from those people for the next 20 years because they might hold on to it for 5 years but then they're going to sell it for, like, 5 million later. and i invested for 18 years so how much investment, i could have put a down payment on a house. this is something, an addendum to the ellis act. if that's going to keep being constitutional they should allow 50 percent of the profit to go to the people who are being kicked out for the next 20 years. or they can make money somewhere else. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, thank you very much, my name is jonathan stoker and i've lived at 1049

market street for the last 3 years. and on or around september 15th we received a memorandum email from our property management and they informed us that they were sad to inform us that they had lost their long protracted expensive battle with the city and that due to city hall's overly restrictive policies that they were going to have to vacate the entire -- that we would have to vacate the building and they were sorry, nothing they could do about it. so we immediately came down to city hall with our torches to find out what was going on and we found out from dbi, very sensible, seemed like sensible people, that this absolutely was not the case and that it was the first they heard of it and so it was being completely misrepresented. so now about 65 units at 1049 market and subsequently it will be 1067 market are under threat of eviction and the deadlines

are coming up a couple days before thanksgiving and subsequently a couple days before christmas will be my group. and i just hope there's something we can do about this, tommy and the hrc has been side by side with us and a lot of us, there are disabled people there, elderly people, school teachers, unemployed people, under employed people, we really like being there and hopefully you can do something to help us. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. >> hi, my name is tommy meckum with the housing rights committee. i'd like to give a response to something you brought up, supervisor campos, about the numbers of cases we're seeing that are on record. i think they're as low as they seem in comparison to maybe what happened in the late 90's is because in the late 90's we weren't having the buyouts and the threats that are pushing people out. i think

if we calculate in the buyouts and the threats we definitely have more evictions than we did back then because a buyout and a threat of an eviction that drives somebody out is an eviction as far as i'm concerned. i'd like to express my support for the legislation that's been proposed, the repeals and reforms of the ellis act, the legislation being proposed by the antidisplacement group, i hope all these things happen and they have an effect on the speculation that's happening in our city. i know people have talked about the lack of affordable housing. it is avery real problem. i have an idea how we can address that too. i think when we are developing these community benefits packages with the developers and with the tech companies we need to think about charging them a fee for coming, for doing

development and for coming in this city. that could then be paid to the san francisco land trust so that the land trust can acquire buildings and that those buildings will be affordable housing forever. the biggest obstacle the land trust faces is the lack of money to buy buildings. real estate is very expensive. if we made the developers and these tech companies pay, pay for the privilege of being here and for developing here and we put into land trust we could make a lot of housing affordable forever for san franciscoans and for people being evicted. thank you. >> i'm going to read a few more names prrp (reading names). >> hi, my name is tom rapp, i

moved in san francisco in 1988 with my band. this is where my roots are, this is where i have made so many great friend ships and had so many good times and this is where i want to continue living. i am living in a rent controlled building for 15 years, my roommate who is a disabled senior has been there 27 years and we are being ellis evicted. we were being offered a win-win situation and we are being harassed and threatened. the ellis act is being abused at the expense of the character of the city. you are the law makers and i can't help thinking there must be something you can do to not only stop future abuse of ellis but to help the people who are currently in the eviction process. thank you. >> thank you, sir. next speaker. >> thank you for having this hearing. my name is