tv [untitled] April 30, 2015 5:00am-5:31am PDT
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 /* 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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son lived in noah valley neighborhood first of all, thank 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 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
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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 they're doing and so they can pay their fair share of taxes oh, there's too much this and that but the navigate they're trying to cheat somehow and i don't think it is right people they're going to be doing airbnb sharing our house is one thing having an entire empty building to do at&t park a wrong
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do we want people to live here or tourist to come hornl honesty to god it is simple decision. >> >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello, i'm a 18 year san franciscan resident 14 in the mission i'm a homeowner and small business owner and father of two and i've been an around host in the mission for the last 3 years the income that has jade from airbnb has loudly my family to cover the cost of health care because i'm a small business owner i pay for health care on my opinion my own it is not clean up any cap or restriction on hosting puts a real financial
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strain on me and my family the unit we have a tiny in-law unit that didn't have a kitchen is booked between 90 percent of year i need that to cover the health care costs my kids the positive side for them is that their world citizens they get to meet folks from all over the world my guests are pumping real dollars into the mission and supporting small business i don't want to be a landlord or want a roommate as far as the registration san francisco is a green city i don't know the process requires you send physical copies instead of a digital copy we all are urging e billing doing this is beyond me although this issue is
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incredibly important but living in the mission and being imposed to gang and drug dealing and trash and other things in the mission is worse i respectfully ask sxoomz and other city officials to focus on those matters as well thank you. >> hi, good evening. i'm barbara first of all thank you for the opportunity to speak a year and a half i lost my job and am in school and working and starting a business this income is critical i've deeply concerned about the proposed amendment to remove the against distinctions within a host and non-host i submitted an application on the existing law and spent over $400 i'm still
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waiting for my permit i feel the city is betrayed that undermines the spirit of law the path and non-hosted in my view can be under stress we're not giving the law a chance to work anyone that hosts more than one hundred and 20 is someone like might have that needs the income i can't understand why the city imposed pain it is not - there's plenty the tax laws i can't understand why the city thinks to have a invasion of privacy and invite people to spy on each other my folks were in world war
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ii and they saw people pitted against each other in san francisco asked to report on families in their short-term rental is a violation of our rights please consider the situation as people like myself thank you (clapping.) >> hi 5 years ago my family and i moved to san francisco i'm decided to make san francisco our home owe purchased a home it is a highly real estate price we took out as much money to roommate the house san francisco is supporting small business and entrepreneurship that's the
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reason we love the city i started my own business last year and helped out to achieve their business because of human resources we're able to go for our dream since my families don't have health care we're paying high premiums in addition to a happy i didn't mortuary and property tax living in san francisco has been more expensive and more friends choose to leave the city if not nor home sharing my fiance and i can't pursue our dreams when the legislation was passed last year, we felt the law was fair for homeowners and renter but not fair this is completely different this 90 day cap and it
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won't help us keep our home we hope you stop punishing homeowner and expires that are chasing the american dream. >> if we could please refrain from the clapping. >> i'm a registered hosted and leave in bruno heights i've been renting to numerous people before my unit i'm representing is legally vacated by people that teach at a university in the midwest upstairs people went or work in nonprofit and my tenants i give them good rents i was glad to hear in regards to other than last year here at
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city hall and supporting airbnb i must say it is strange to note that with new lose looming that the people that will be informers and neighbors and situations like in eastern belgium where people snitch on each other having people over i want to mention that with airbnb and thanks thanks to airbnb many people found out a footprint in the city and happy to eastbound here even though airbnb was there in the 80s i was happy to be in a neighborhood house so-called boarding how is it was a wonderful union where different people from all over the world san francisco was open
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to new ideas. >> my name is a brad i'm a remedy host i live in twin peaks neighborhood with my husband a student and owns a small business i am a recent graduate and starting a new phase-in life i came to san francisco 5 years ago i've lived in my home i'm a registered and activity - with adult children in college home sharing made it possible to live ♪ amazing city home sharing has put us in a position to become a homeowner in san francisco which is another dream we couldn't have entertained without home sharing we've render our home in twin
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peaks as home sharers outside of the tourism in san francisco we also able to introduce our guests to twin peaks and innovating and other neighborhoods that might be frequented by guests we've taken the actions to legally share our home we ask you to let us do what we love in the city and we love doing by continuing to make the registration more streamlined there are more people that want to registration my experience was a positive experience i'm happy for that and to protect our privacy and the rights as tax paying citizens in san francisco >> good evening my name is greg zip my wife and i are from the
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hate ashbury neighborhood we're retired and lived in the neighborhood over 22 years and sharing our councilmember krekorian home for two years it makes it affordable to live in san francisco sharing our home is not just about the extra income but good for our neighborhood for example at christmas the neighbors didn't have enough room to host her mom and dad from chicago because we share our home we're able to hope other neighbors a soon to be bride by sharing our home with per by itself prince they were able to help the nerve bride because we share our home we provided a home for the gentleman that leaves near us
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his mother and father were happy to stay nearby to care for their son home sharing has brought us the world to our doorstep we've hosted families from all over the world and many cities across the united states so they see san francisco and recommend many local businesses to enjoy i'm very concerned about the private right of action that pits neighbor against neighbor as an examples has shown home sharing is good for our neighborhoods and thank you >> good evening. i'm a single-family residential single-family i have a home in betsy we managed to raids our four kids my children attend
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public schools in san francisco over the past 5 years we've render out our home and travel when the kids are out of school prior to airbnb we used craigslist i preferred airbnb because of the peace of mind note o not cleaning money last summer i had a in my quiet family stay 3 months the neighborhood were happy our house was quiet and next year i will rent out our home because our kids are gone to college 50 thousand in tuition that is difficult for our family we live in the most expensive city in the city we - to live and pie
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bills we're considered higher earners we don't qualify for aid my kids we'll rent out their rooms i can't rent to the rooms to a full-time tenant because the kids come home at break but my diet will be a spanish teacher i pay my mortgage and property tax it frustrates me by capping the number of days your forcing spokesman to rent out their homes on craigslist not safe to cover the expenses thank you you. >> okay some more names
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(calling names). >> hi commissioners lisa i've lived in the mission for 35 years and currently the president of the liability hills association if you ask why roughly 6 thousand people in the city are renting some of all their i living space the extra income helps the critical shortage of housing didn't neglected affordable housing in favor of luxury condo that is increased the cost of everything so city recipe are reacted by
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renting they're available space to travelers and tourist around has facilitated a way to afford the high costs of living here i spent years paying off a 40 years old working hard to have a roof my neighbors encouraged me to sign up for airbnb a great way to sprument my income they pay the property taxes and that economic curb on is great you may call me and hosted rental my that is a bedroom will not be part of the housing stock airbnb is fine for a few days otherwise my grandkids need my room this is not a hotel i'
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