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host but as ass as an owner i'm feral of the property owner laws i have if you protects if i get a long term renter i'm enjoying the around but as a property owner i don't know how it's a massive conversion 4 hundred and 45 unit in san francisco the city of san francisco so we're talking about less than one percent of the housing stock i don't see a mass conversion that is a fear but if you want to talk about the housing situation there are 3 thousand new unit going up in potrero hill alone so there are many units going up in nay my neighborhood the final points
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you know we have only done thirty days it is easier for us it appeals to the hoa but just last month a woman came from london to be yoga certified and spend a bunch of money for the 5 weeks she choose san francisco and another man an intern an outstanding young man those folks wouldn't stay in a hotel it is too expensive see the vital that people come to san francisco they otherwise won't be able to it is beyond around beyond a housing stock it is really about the economic vital that those tourists and people from around the country and world deliver to san francisco so, please consider that at all
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thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm march i'm a tenant right attorney here in san francisco and just to follow the last speakers point the goal of vital shouldn't dictate who follows the law there recent laws when you want to have a rental in a zone people need places to live it is hard when you offer a unit that is not available for someone here since rent control was infected against with the fact there's a housing crisis and affordable housing niece to be protected that cannot happen without strict combroshlth the hosts need to be account and rental numbers before they list the property are 99 percent of listing are illegal in san
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francisco advertised on a daily basis consider a strict right of action if they're doing nothing wrong people have nothing to worry about and protect those living here living in building that is happening and increase the safety concerns and other problems lewis lives in a building we're helping him and morning star we're helping edwin please help us to stop the conversion of short-term rentals in san francisco >> hi, i'm edwin i've worked with the planning commission i have two complaints regarding the castro they had 10 beds and
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rented out those for 13 hundreds per bed per month we have 3 bedbug outbreaks and landlord was actually on their side so that was a little bit unique someone to protect his own property but one of the things that why one of the better experience was actually test zoning administrator hearing at the end of the hearing he asked the tenant that was under how many individuals currently in property she said 3 after the meeting we were all surprised the investigators went on site to verify is it they found 9 folks staying there there this is important that reveals there is an issue regarding how those
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tools are made available to the employees who were upholding the regulations part of the process included contracting bryan and include copies of the notice of violation issued by the participating and saying look this is your host they're actually this is proof their violating the recommendations will you concealing cancel their accounts their violating the service those certified they never took action that reveals their lack of cropping with the city as a lack of enforcement the dynamic tools at every level are important pawing but holding people responsible thank you. >> so i may wonder why i'm
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wearing a wig and sunglasses i'm scared my landlord will found out i'm here for years she's tried to move into our unit and evict my house mates and me there's a problem when i ask what she'll do without our rent she'll rent airbnb she built the an illegal unit for airbnb i don't know if strangers as i share my brashgd a intruders she lives in the building and makes our life hell it may seem like i'm young and can find another place to live i worked for the nonprofit and government i can't for the record the medium rent of 44 so
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a month others have been evicted and you or your family and friends could be next you could put your life on hold for years and not visit family out of town because the landlords says an eviction will come soon if you allow airbnb for one hundred and 20 days a year more people like me will get evicted even for full-time respecter for 60 days when rent control was removed the housing supply doesn't increase but the rent did i would love to know how many of you are tenant and what would you say yes to supervisor
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campos this is not an entire home thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon possibly good evening, commissioners david owen with airbnb this is a lengthy might want year with countless hours i want to thank the commission and all the folks that came out to share they're feeling every month everyone collects rent for more than one million dollars every most the average hosts makes between 1 thousand and 5 thousand dollars dollars a month we know that some folks in the
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city oppose home sharing but let's be clear about the motivation of folks that propose trojan hours legislation mass circulating as legislation we know that various city agencies put time into regulations and are well tensions this process is far too complex we've heard from folks about the difficulties people face and people that make it through the face are rewarded with nos from the to your they need to collect i want to address a few quick issues on the question of affordability impacts we know that home sharing makes san francisco more affordable and trying to pant the picture is a
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dangerous ohio beneficial it is how we addressed the affordable my time is going you may have questions i'm concerned about proposals and having to chat about those proposal but thank you very much for your time. >> thank you very much i'm going to call more names (calling names). >> good afternoon commissioners i'm michael i'm a long time san franciscan and we've heard a lot today that made me think about the regulations on wall street and,
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in fact, we're talking about affordable housing he heard someone on the opposition refer to the citizens opted but the problem with that the lack of regulations i'm in support of supervisor campos regulations and also the face this is not a discussion that is like legislative and the vanity of position i was in my home for 20 years and locked out after my landlady died and they charged $7,000 for anywhere unit and i'm in a lawsuit and hoping city hall is representing us or people that haven't moved here yet i'm hiv positive and i'm speaking to other hiv people that have been evicted we're coming because we want answers
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accountability eager to be held accountable to the thank you for your time. >> hello commissioners. i'm dust tin cal rerepresent companies across the government that are expanding opportunity for californians we currently are a participate as we know the imperial landscape it is enforceable to keep up with the nomination we find users where companies hike airbnb that are at the forefront of that existing time co-sponsoring to a recent study aforementioned host are using home sharing to
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supplement their income that encomes rapid shining population those issues as we discussed are not new the proposed amendments after 3 years of debate went into law many of the concerns aired today and the impact changes fall on san franciscans not the city home sharing hosts should not be burdened with the bureaucratic issues liquor the existing legislation itself specifically we feel the proposed data collections is previously unseen in san francisco is it allows the city unfettered assess tour our information additionally those companies are strong privacy protections and therefore government must provide a racial to collect the
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data those protecting the zoning lose it didn't define the private data time is running out i'll close cooling asked the board to reject this short-term rental regulation thank you. >> let me call a few more names (calling names). >> my name is alex i honestly own 0 house in san francisco my family owns property in san francisco one of the property cap for more than 70 years don't
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know why we went away and can't rent a property even though after a fight with tenants with the pay around more than 4 and the tenant not spend a penny get a lawyer it was empty for seven years and the short-term rental is very good it is a short-term rental path by the mayors idea after 1200 days is a good idea we we say let my family have a short-term rental otherwise keep empty so for another 10 years the problem if we rent out mayor ed lee we can't get better property san francisco is just a problem we have thirty thousand available units all my friends they own the property they don't want to rent any more the
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regulations is too crazy hope that you try to stop maybe supervisor campos idea is bad idea it will drive the lsd not rent out any more that's my idea i'm alex. >> good evening, commissioners henry with the president of the council district associations so for short-term rentals who are the people that stay at short-term rentals their visit from overseas they stay not in the city what do they do they go and enclosure out into the neighborhood and go to local stores and the shops and eat out so on top of that what else
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because you have no more people in the street this makes it safer because nor eyes out there and lastly the income that comes benefits the small business and benefits the city the long-term time tenants master tenants in the building that had two or three bedroom unit would rent out to people because the landlord doesn't want to both so those tenants can have people in there for a long-term and no one questioned them folks like myself had international students and we get paid we never paid taxes on that those tenants rented out to the other co-tenants they never paid and now the city is getting
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money that contributions towards the maintenance of our streets the infrastructure and stuff this is a good thing for the whole community not only the homeowners but everyone so once again we that that is a good thing for small business thank you. >> (calling names). >> hi, i'm a renter in san francisco i moved back to the city over 12 years i spent part of my childhood 11 months we were forced out off our rerlg
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home in almost a year over the last two years a shift in short-term rental to sublets and daily rentals this not as hard for me and my formerly housemates to find housing we have actually friends living on a temporary basis we all went to college and work here we are faced with disruptions and instrablt because we're fighting tourist over a limited housing supply that is where airbnb provpt i support of the supervisor campos legislation to regulate short-term rentals thank you. >> hi first of all i want to
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thank the commission thank you for your your attention it is grueling for hearing people on both sides the debate and thank the platt planning department for started out with things that were well-intentioned for legally engaging short-term rental and this legislation is fair and balanced view i also wanted to point out that i know your super busy they've put a a report that summarizes the proposal i highly recommend read pages 17 through 20 which sigh exactly what the recommendations and why they're recommending those things i want to address several the recommendations one of them to support of the one hundred and 20 days limits and to make it
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applicable to hosted and unhosted it is hard to make the agreement that hosted rentals take away from rentals in the city so it is important to regulate this by the planning commission their own estimate someone has to rent it for 2 hundred and 57 days short-term rental basis and in order to break even so the one hundred and 20 days i want to regulate this incredibly it will introduce one hundred and 40 days i really want to draw your attention to recommendation 11 the planning department is recommend to you don't mandate the data so they can royals correctly if you do that people will migrate to other platforms that will hurt comboermentd /*
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comboerment endorsement. >> good evening i have come before you several times in san francisco since 1969 i was part of a latino democratic club for the agenda for airbnb that relates short-term rentals and requires the hosts to pace taxes and very strong mechanisms added to it this included clearly the penalties against non-compiling short-term rental entities including short-term rentals permits for violators
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furthermore i'm asking this board approve the recommendation for the san francisco alice griffith agency be responsible for enforcing the compliance i'm no support of supervisor campos legislation and in terms of the legislation must have teeth we are all obeying the recommending regulation we should ask for leave for affordable housing it happens they're not regulate or assess penalties so easily and the construction of new unit the department has been serious violated without respect to violator and in closing what i'm
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saying okay saying okay my english is bad but we have attacking people we're not. >> thank you sir. >> good evening. i'm eric with san francisco latino culture in the mission latino had a huge displacement in our area of the mission district and have a larger incarnations the airbnb register in our area the way i see this were with with small business airbnb is a small business we have to get permits and department of public health and vitals them twice a year we hear all you have to do is a follow the rules airbnb is a business
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it needs to be regulated we're here in support of supervisor campos legislations if so well-balanced and fair our businesses are not doing well in the politician a lot of the clients have been displaced and some neighborhoods maybe making more money and other neighbors are not we're not profiting from airbnb's in the mission. >> kmhi allison park lee anderson son lived in noah valley neighborhood first of all, thank
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planning commission. >> i'll tell you about my housing experience having people stay at my home allows me to stay in san francisco home sharing makes that possible for me to be able to stay in my home and allows me to show people from around the world when san francisco is is allows a velocity a peak another what san francisco see i also suggest restaurant and take muni or taxis and patries i have questions about that reggie submit my registration the first week of march and here it is april 24th i have no answer and have made several calls to the
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planning department no response the other thing why one hundred and 20 days cap home sharing i'm sharing my home i'm not taking my home over the register arithmetic and the right of action we're asking neighbors to sue neighbors over homeowner rights is that good for the neighborhood isn't that what happened in east german i didn't also this requires may or may not information for example the planning commission wants to know who and when and when i'm there as well that is a serious invasion of privacy do hotels get that information in closing this restrictions make it hard for me and others to will hear insisted that what you say
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you're trying to protect? >> michael lion the support the supervisor campos legislation to actually have enforcement over this i really urge you not to go with the airbnb influence suggests of the mayor we've seen what happened when an airbnb influence for the original chow legislation that got us no where entirely unenforceable and this is the mayors repeating the same trying to have you've got to have at least people be registered for i can't see the
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argument of people needing to be able to do around which is threatening showing so much hours in san francisco the statement they need to have airbnb in order to stay in san francisco this is a very short-sighted kind of thing the process that makes it difficult to stay in san francisco is unrestrained capturing not only luxury housing gets built that is the greatest return on investment 80 to suggest you're going to stay in san francisco by having more unrestrained market rate processes going on i think this extremely short sided. >> high i'm with the quarter
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electro i want to address the commissioner who said something about empty buildings being an owner and afraid of getting bad tenants that's a risk you take when you're a landlord you take the risk you might get somebody bad big deal our making money off of them once again we talk about bad apples theirs bad one side everywhere i ask you to support supervisor campos amendment or whatever it is and mainly because we need regulation we need to know who's doing airbnb we need to know how often