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no new housing being built for people that disabilities the old housing for being able to get rent out flats and stuff is it disappearing under around we're getting pushed out of the city it is important to be here we get our medical care here we get to see medical specialists ones with our city we lose our medical. >> any other speakers that need to be accommodated i'm going to start calling names if i hear our name called and your - yes.
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>> microphone. >> hello i'm good afternoon commission i'm a vision zero person and speak for no one else but myself i'm a coalition of one i'm american people airbnb host i live in high unit the room is my home sharing unit i take care of the guest and clean the rooms myself it it wasn't for a home sharing approach i wanted of would be homeless it helps me to pay my rent when i couldn't pay the rent on my oppose i was a person at save
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woo and other places to - i don't know, there should be a limit on how many nights in a unit because i'm there to take care of each and every guest there are people that like myself who i don't know myself as disabled i work and take care of everything on my home i have help with how website i ask you not put a 4ri789 only home sharing sites where the host lives there. >> thank you. okay going ahead and calling names
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(calling names) in any particular order. >> mccain republican howard i'm very concerned about the short-term rental of unoccupied unit in residential neighborhoods this is an essential the fact of the rezoning for residential to commercial that is turning every building into a potential hotel this didn't build strong neighborhood this is a lot of lip service given to families in our city how is a family with young children feel if the building is rented out to strangers will they feel comfortable letting their children play in the hallway would you
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my own neighborhood has lost neighbors to to be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars evictions and to fear of losing their homes to short-term rentals i did not want to be left in a city that is vacant except during tourist season i want to real neighborhoods not people that doesn't have commitment to the city i urge you to make short-term rentals as stringent as possible thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello i'm with alliance of californians for community empowerment and i'm here to support supervisor campos
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legislation first of all i am for hearsay and i think the term sharing has been misnomer sharing is like in something freely sharing does not mean the exchange of monetary funds i'm an old hippie i like sharing it means i have the couple come hang out with me sharing to me does not mean i get money i give my couple freely let's get over the double speak of what sharing means
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what it means airbnb and there are platforms that means who gets more money i live in the mission i've seen my neighborhood being destroyed and i'm telling you right now i am ready to breakdown and cry and i feel sorry for people who need the center income we need to look at the income structure of this world. (clapping.) >> we could refrain from the clapping we have a long day ahead of us. >> hi, i'm bill i live in
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hayes valley on the internet i go on the name of dust nolan if you up here it maybe hard to see i've been i'm one of the people that alex marches used to for the data that was done for airbnb i've been downloading data from average since october about 12 times those numbers are fairly consistent supervisor farrell mentioned the numbers are lower than they've been they're not really but they tend to go up and down with the percentages stay the same the percentage of the number of apartments compared to homes and their
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shared they're pretty much the same those nuns thirty percent over thirty percent of the rentals on airbnb are consistently done with people having 2 or more rentals 15 percent of the rentals and the hosts they match on airbnb are consistently arguing did you by people that list their home as not san francisco they're from denver, new york are mexican city from all over the world it is the same percentages all through the maeblt february 1st i've done four runs since february 1st since this law was - airbnb
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they don't take down their advertising. >> i want to polite. >> good afternoon. i'm teresa from north beach i'm representing the senior action i'm concerned about the enforcement in north beach alone because i'm seeing right next to me all those units that were illegal before and illegal today still going on granted they take down whatever signs were evidenced before some vacationing go on their clever my concern do you have a way of monitoring those listing if the
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city requires anyplatform they'll have to register that and this registration number will have to be on any listing no matter what platform this way how can you know there are 8 unit just two buildings away from me used as vacation rental every single weekend 5 days sometimes 4 days rarely more than that but all the time that is one street around the corner that are more around the other corner yet another two buildings represent out vacation rental we're seeing limousine dropping off 6 to 8
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people all the time all while families are there little kids running out into the street it impacts our character those are not neighbors those are people invested in our community. >> sorry ma'am we'll give you is another come up of sessions, sir with the telephone turn the telephone off folks you need to turn off the cell phones it is disruptive and imagining appropriate to the speakers and commissions. >> it is destroying the character the environment of our neighborhood and i just wish you had teeth no enforcement and none of these are list unless
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there's a registration number thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm marla i'm the co-chair of the north beach tenants committee north beach has been ground zero inform short-term rentals we've already gone through many, many vibrations a whole block has been turned into short-term rentals when dbi was informed of this and planning commission was informed they were literally nothing they could do the real estate a.k.a. agent who owned the 4 unit building said i'm not doing this and continued so 0u6b8 enforcement is steel important i'm confused why the planning department has stopped
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gathering information not only airbnb but all the short-term rental platforms they should be north beach is 16 blocks we are small and bordered by traditional hotels and traditional arounds we don't want to be turned into a hotel district and that is what's happening so the enforcement issue is huge you can create a department but a department that has no real enforcement what difference district attorney r does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank youistrict attorney r does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank youct ney r does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank youey r does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank youy r does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank your does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank your does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank you does it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank youdoes
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it make i support supervisor campos legislation thank you. >> hello, i'm a senior and 50 year long term resident i speak to urge to remedy the ordinance of supervisor campos i believe we need o the tight regulations with accurate funding above all want - we need to 60 day cap when making our decisions i hope you keep in mind those short-term rentals are no try by the people to the city they do the opposite they destroy the very thing that attracts visitors and the character of our neighborhood and community they drive our friends and families and keshgz into exile ill health and worse
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i urge to you recommend supervisor campos ordinance i want to protect our long term permanent housing stock i ask you two questions first what kind of city are you charged with protecting? a city of resident who contribute and care for the city or a city of strangers second question which will triumph when is more worthy to prevail the long term residents of san francisco or those who wish we were gone thank you. >> i'll call a few more names
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(calling names). >> commissioners good afternoon. i'm antonio for the record i represent senior and sdablth action and the heritage foundations i'll urge to you recommend the supervisor campos recommendations we do need to 60 day cap i see the need to deincentive vision zero much of the behavior and that's one way to do it one of my colleagues 450i89d we have lost 5 thousand unit from the market i don't want to call it the market i want to call it the community 5 thousand units are you kidding me the boy wonder at around do - no they doesn't think the consequences their business mold was going to have in this community wehat have died recently that could have lived in some or some of
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the unit this business model it messing with people's lives it is changing the character of neighborhood you know out of this need to be clever and to make lots and lots of money and break the law and oh we fooled them again that's why those reasonable proposals by supervisor campos are so much needed right now because they offer at least some checks and balances to an out of control situation 5 thousand unit in a situation where this is the tight it and worse rental market for renter in decades it is a state of emergency we don't need this we need to clamp down on those bad actors the situation
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is out of control thank you. >> good afternoon i was born and raised and still living in the tenderloin there's only a few of us left someday it it be will a museum from a lifetime of living in the t l i've not as decide gusted with any city this is is the topic at hand i beg you here to not be so easily bought by airbnb as a mayor and supervisor farrell have already been i ask you to not 80 be fooled by the sharing economy authoritative i urge you to move
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to the recommendation laid out the the supervisor campos we need to limit the rentals to 60 days and hold airbnb accountable and charge them fines for illegal listed on their we went and the stand up to the point of interest elitists we need to regulate thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i will in the marina own a two-bedroom home i never listed it no one lived in. >> home my wife and i will and live on a limited income i have emphysema and by july - with airbnb help us to keep afloat me
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renting one bedroom in my one unit home didn't effect the city i ask you to please don't throw me in the same bucket for people president to rent through airbnb i live in one bedroom that barely pays my bill so let us have the full use of airbnb service thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the founder the home sharers of san francisco a support group for the hosts we have 17 hundred folks i'm the co-chair the democratic club i want to ask you to not adopted those
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protections more seriously their harmful to the city and county of san francisco in the brief time i have i'll highlight a few concerns number one the caps on short-term rentals will do nothing for growth it makes no sense to cap all rent hosted or unhosted the estimation to bleed that the source of income for low income families the expansion of the prior action to include the hosts is truly offense i have the right to take hosts suspected of violating the ordinance directly to court so extending the rights to neighbors pits neighbors against
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neighbors a southern so preserve the quality of neighborhood that flies in the face of those concern the bureaucratic is not more effective we oppose to the private information and those of our guests this data disrespects our privacy right and there is less to achieve those enforcement ends the ordinance already requires hosts to report out data annually a same change for penalties for miss reporting plus the - >> thank you, sir our time is up. >> hi and keithi livebuena vista
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park it has been a problem in san francisco so it is not a new problem people make it ought to be i brought a copy of my home sharing registry i'm a law-abiding accept i went through the registry as i was supposed to and file it mostly about the treasurer and i ask any changes to the legislation not effect people like me under are a few people that abuse the law but we shouldn't those of us trying to do the right thing shouldn't be punished the private right of action will although my neighbor to sue me if i block his broifr i
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derivative i want to make sure my rights are protected that's it thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, i'm jim and from what i've hearing it sound like i've been the enemy i've been here thirty years now i'm unemployed i want to share my guest room on airbnb but can't rent to a roommate i have a family that comes but i need help and this legislation seems to be making me the enemy if you really want me to move out of the city and sell my how is it will going go a a millionaire it has a great view
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into a mega mansion you want to stay here this is the first city in the world i've felt comfortable in as a gay man, i lived in virginia you can't imagine what is it like in virginia as a gay man please, please try something i've recommend and filed out all the paperwork they said my paperwork is in order you have to wait a month i've been waiting three weeks i'm still waiting thank you. >> good afternoon and thank you for hearing us today, i'm chris and residents in the lower heights district 2 whether you rent or own our home or simply
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visiting san francisco is a very expensive city home sharing has helped me to sustain those high costs and also beneficial for local businesses guests frequent enabling shops and restaurant and curbside cafe in the fillmore district are many that agree as a law-abiding citizen i applied for a certificate on february 2nd, and carried that confident to the planning department that was a staff member i had an appointment this is was the first appointment available i received confirmation my document were no order i would receive the phone call i
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received a phone call my documents no longer qualified and followed up with several phone calls and e-mails since the 27th of march and yet to receive a rely though my taxes were paid by airbnb they sent e-mails to collect so i ask you commissioners to streamline this process to that i may continue be a law-abiding citizen this is bureaucratic process. >> good afternoon my name is karen and i'm is certificateed home sharer muslims lived in the western
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edition for 39 years and want to continue to live here we are both in our 70s retired and open a fixed income being a teacher and social worker you you know very well, that that didn't permit us to live here though we were smart to budget for long term care insurance the cost of living is out passing with the insurance company will cover home sharing enables to us to put money aside for care. >> i've been reading in the paper how the water and electrical rates are going to go up for our home not for the abusers we want to make sure that the
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abusers of airbnb just liquor with water and electric are not let not able to let go we know that the board now it considering doing the very same thing what i would call citizens united on the local level i hope you will reilly consider what it is doing to families like us and others you've heard from today i'm sorry that the supervisor kim took out the what was the 3 unit - >> thank you, ma'am your time is up.
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>> let me call a few more names (calling names). >> okay good afternoon, commissioners my name is kevin i've lived in the sundown district for 26 years have a couple of the ones and we have an in-law unit studio we the in-laws say in the rest of the year it is entry we signed up to get legalized we did last week we got our number 207 thank you we're now legal and glad to be legal and appreciate the legislation in