affordability it's true we're the largest global city in san francisco worldwide we're behind hong kong and the less affordable placing place to be in the world. i want to ask you consider the flight of the foster children that can't afford to be housed in san francisco by the virtual there is no consideration given to that situation to make the housing affordable >> thank you. i've lived in mission for 40 years and renting most of my life and still renting as an old lady. i didn't realize how lucky we were being evicted in the 30s

and 40s because it was more affordable. i meet more people ail the time who are being evicted. it's been heartbreaking and infoirt many of the families are being evicted and service workers who have taken to taking care of others. as a newer i worry about people's health living are constant fear and stress we're all worried about this and it's not going good for the health. homelessness is already a problem in san francisco it will only become 0 worse. the staircase differences between rich and poor the martin

luther king's are facing us evidence it's painful and please do something quickly. every week that goes by people are suffering a losing their homes >> thank you. next speaker and. >> i'm patricia caring man, i moved to san francisco in 1970. i've been living at any current flat in the mission for 2 seven years. i have no idea what's going to happen to me in august i'm a senior i get a year and then i have to be out. i don't sleep at night. i have a had a right time eating because my sum is in a knotty have been having panic attacks.

talking to others it's something that is good morning with all of us. the previous speaker talking about the ill effects of this it's true. i love this city when i first moved here i felt at home. i've been here ever since. when i first moved her i lived added 16th and market i got my film developed at harvey milk store. i have never miss an election i've always participateed in the elections of the city. i hope i can stay here and i

hope this is just the beginning because i know it's better than it was as far as the pay out goes it's not going to stop the problem. when you're trying to find housing they don't even have waiting lists anymore. i look at shopping carts i think that will be my next home >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm charley i didn't i've representing the san francisco's apartment association. we find this legislation problematic the first is the market rate for apartments changes everyday. to establish market rate and use that has a as a rate for two years is problematic and to have a market rate for the whole city is problematic and in the

excelsior it's different. one of the other issues i want to talk about is hardship that came up before. i want to point out a fundamental difference between landlord and tenant hardship that's the consideration of assets. if the landlord is filing an petition the property is considered if a tenant is nil i filing a hardship the tenants assets are not considered and then to help low income tenant to relocation we're asking this testing of the amendment. if the stated goal is for the higher location goal money needed then we ask for the

testing. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> after that supervisors. i'm stephen vincent i've lived in san francisco since 1962 and been an artist and writer and publish i've made contributions to the city and the state. i've lived in any residence on 23 reading street for 23 years. the building was acquired and i was immediately threatened with the ellis act the owner said he was going to do some improvements and if i didn't move he inevitably said he'd blow me out of the water he knew nothing of my history. this should be addressed the

only reason the ellis act is pled is for reasons to raise the rent and to a raise increase the value of the building. i think we're looking a major cultural rain train in this town. i'm not alone among afrtdz and teachers who are facing eviction this is a major loss to the city. we've created the capital that makes the city attractive and it it harsh to realize that this will be flattened line manhattan where my friend can't live my friends have moved to east bay or los angeles. what's questioned for the good

it's time to ask the human stock who live here and see what we can do to protect us >> thank you very much. next speaker. before i get to the next speaker i'll call more names. i apologize if i mispronounce anyone's name (calling names) go ahead, sir >> i'm john i'm a thirty year plus resident of san francisco i'm a senior and a volunteer rights council. i've heard so many heartbreaking stories. i want to point out that the housing rights committee started the rent control and that was in

1979 we're back where we started from here we go again. i'd like to say that the evicting the most vulnerable part of our community is a mark of a civilization that's lost it's sense of cult. we needed to look at those formulas and look at the results of what we do and that's my major point look at the outcome. if we are trying to preserve those people then do it. it fact is a culpability should be based on the number of balconies the real estate people are aware of and understand the value and that's the comparability can it should be >> thank you. next speaker.

>> good afternoon. my name is a kathy. first of all, weld like to thank ace for the empowerment who work with the tenants so thank supervisor campos and supervisor kim and supervisor mar and supervisor campos for claund this item. memoranda rent are around $3,400 a month and 2013 data collected by the anti eviction map project makes use of ellis increased 1 hundred and 76 percent in comparison with other years. everyone except the splarlts say

they want people to stay in the city this will allow them to stay long-range we're in an emergency situation. form for a flipperer to have to face a payment of the subsidy for two years might give persons because of whether or not to engage in harmful general welfare of the city. the feature of our time is the widening gap between the rich and the rest of us. this rent attempts to push back against the tide of the greed we salute >> i'm rosemary a second-generation san

franciscan. any family has been evicted and we have no more to go and my question is: i grew up in san francisco i was not allowed to speak spanish so i learned english and landlord the pledge of allegiance and other people a good american and this is how i get treated there where are is values. that is what hurts me not the money issue where am i supposed to go i don't drive my family is here. where do they want us to go change sometimes is go and i've lived many decades her in san francisco i've seen many changes. however, it wasn't to humiliate people and throw people out and make people feel like they're less of a person. this is my final thing which has

it become a sin to be poor. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm sarah filling in for tom of the housing rights committee. first, i wanted to address the issue people bringing up mom and pop and the small landlord. we see almost no small landlord using the ellis act. the vast majority have brought buildings and flipped them in the first 5 years. they're not even landlords. they don't keep buildings and rent them out but resell the building as soon as they get out the tenants the majority are buying much u up buildings with elderly it's a huge percent of

splarlts. they have folks taking advantage of the will that that lets them make a quick buck off our community. so see i feel like we need to separate that minor minor exception the small landlord and be careful i see jeremy michael's is the only building that the landlords own in san francisco they own lots of of buildings in south bay they immediately ellised that and this is true throughout the city. roadway relocation isn't enough and the money isn't enough but maybe in a few years the seniors can move into low income housing. we're subsidizing this greed

when we have 80 put those people into affordable housing we pay for that we choose to make it so that folks had proper housing and instead we have housing for second larts >> supervisor kim. >> i was hoping someone will bring this up the majority ellis act evictions are happening under 10 companies. there's some comments about mom and pop but it's not mom and pop property owners but i was wondering if you have more of the numbers or anyone amongst you did >> the mapping project could come up with the data. >> okay. >> i know. >> maybe after public comment you could come back to us with

the data i have concerned with the mom and pop but if 98 percent of the evictions are happening under the office of 10 large corporations there should be less concerns about who the legislation is impacting. >> between 70 and 80 percent for people who have had the buildings longer but it's a few landlords that are evicting if they moved in 10 years ago even that little percent that owns that for more than 5 years those are huge landlords like that. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm alicia thorton my landlord is a speculator you can

see here billboards. >> my partner and i have until december 30th before being vooekd we can spring back i'm in my 40s she's in her 50s but i worry about the seniors i want to thank supervisor campos for bringing this to our attention $5,000 is not going to cut it thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i'm ms. gomez thank you for having this day. the court: thank you. supervisor campos and all of you for supporting this bill. i have been a renter of the same apartment since 1982. it's my that long time relationship (laughter) and san francisco is my great

love. i have learned everything i know about life living in this city and i become an artist in this city mentored by artists. artists from the mission district two artists that are fighting eviction right now. the people who are sharing stories today are articulate and brave. i know a man, we were not close but known him for many years he was fatiguing the ellis act eviction and took his life. i've been watching this for a furious it's heartbreaking and painful. i see the character of this city not just changing but vanishing and the families gone and the

worker families gone and artists begun. i've witnessed as an obviouslyer. a couple weeks ago any landlord was in the building making repairs he is a good guy but i heard him tell his worker i want to see how much i can get for this place i know my number is up i don't want to leave the city but yet my problems are nothing to what we've heard thank you, thank you next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm daniel whitaker and i was born in san francisco. i was raised in stockton but moved in 1982.

i lived in any current residence in the inner sunset and in the past years i've worked in many jobs in a law enforcement for 20 years and numerous bombs and since then i've worked as a contract web developer. i unfortunately have the all two familiar horrible greedy cheap lousy landlords people that shouldn't own properties. i've had to call on them last summer they were motivated by high rent decided to evict me they are then harry's me trying to get me out they served me with an ellis act.

it was - i get the highest amount. this amount didn't begin to cover the flrtd expenses. i never once imagined moving from san francisco my business associates and families is here it's ground zero for any job. i'm asking you to vote against this and to keep 4r0er789 residents folks who love san francisco and decided many years ago this will be the home for them effort and being forced to move >> thank you. next speaker.

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> good afternoon. i am the receptionist and everyday i see tenants come in with ellis act cases swiss what they can do and their rights >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so after they come in facing those ellis act evictions

they're facing an incredible amount of harassment so tenants move from building to building trying to escape the harassment but we see that in every rental their coming up against the ellis act because those evictions are an epidemic. speeding i support in legislation i urge you all to as well it's going to help descend intents the speculation in our city and assure that tenants don't have to face the abuse

they're facing now >> thank you very much. before we get to the final two speakers you'll call the next batch of speakers (calling names) those are all the cards i have. and again, there are yellow cards right in the front if you have not filled that out. go ahead >> good afternoon supervisors i'm charles i'm a resident of san francisco for about thirty years. a member of the senior and disability action and the california alliance for retired americans. for all seniors and ellis being affected on the poor and worker class we're going to have a

demonstration to present the series of the egregious splarlts today, the gold rush folks are trying to get people out of the building that's the difference between the two gold rushes. capital only moral is profit they could care less they make a profit they survivor. and this government federal government has allowed the bankers who are the main people behind this industry to not only make a profit but which we're in reported i've seen to 50 percent reported in a quarter by the same firms that were battled out by the taxpayers and not a

one had to pay a dime back to us that they stole but the trillions they stole they hadn't paid back now they're making more money off of us. and this system supports it one hundred percent. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is a mark i've lived here since 1971. for the last 28 years thank you for taking testimony in increase payments to tenants that may not conflicted i use this term compensatory it's not a way to treat the owners to prevent people from making profits it's

a way to slow down the radical change in the face of san francisco to slow down the evictions. and in 1985, 29 years ago there was no interject bubble because there was not intreblt that was no highly specific active picking market. the problem was not contemplated by the legislators because the problem didn't exist all this legislation does is place a buffer zone between the tenants that are likely to be evicted and where their cooperations are small librarians large numbers they could choose the greed the correct appraisal where 12 people live in 6 united.

we were told by the city of san francisco it's $800,000 and the banks to $1.4 million but the asking price for this building today, it's 2.1 who would pay more the top price estimated by the banks and moth companies who will pay more speculators. we're seeing buffer it for us who will be thrown out of the city >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm here to speak for all of us in north beach in saying this particular legislation will give us a chance my goal a change to have time and money to try to find

another place ♪ our neighborhood hopefully so we can say in our community. i see this as a band-aid but the best band-aid we've got we need it now not yesterday. so that my son and i can remain in our community of 31 years so my neighbors i'm going to name them janet and martha and don and elaine and jeff and jennifer and maria and james, mark, jerry, heeding, tina. mary rose. lisa and mrs. lee and her son and others those are being talented with the ellis act or ellis act had already been

received we still could benefit if having help and relocating in our neighborhood so our community cocoon to north beach can continue being a kevin and vibrant diverse place. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. thank you for having us her. i'm sarah i was raised up in san francisco and in supervisor wiener's district i won of the many people being held activity along with in my neighborhood are we're licensing at the beginning of april. and we are among the many people who are facing that. i'm here today, i had to take time off from my classroom bee