by 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'm not looking

for a permanent roommate supervisor campos is my supervisor but not wanting to support that low income folks and seniors to supplement their income i compromised with the certificate number one for those living in our homes scrape 9 cap how many days we can rent and casting a large net will have unintended consequences thanks for listening. >> good afternoon arrest my name is natasha i lived in san francisco where shared guest room awhile our family is visiting this is a disappointment the tax collector

said there was a influx of people i waited four hours to speak to a starve i was september from an employee to an employee because the computers don't talk to each other they said their information was outdated it became obvious the personnel doesn't know what we were doing depending on the person and often they contradict each i got fluted and walked uaw from the planning department it took four days to call back and another three weeks for that an appointment the estimated time was 2 weeks as of today it is 8 weeks signs or since i've visited the planning department

i started my organization it's been 3 months and not over yet and going through all the trouble frustrated i'm waiting inform registration and don't have short-term rental i followed the rules and instead i'm being punished the law is okay. so i'm asking you to figure out how to make it easier to register and follow the rules so to simply the progress and give this law an opportunity to work thank you. >> good afternoon i'm a host in the oakland neighborhood i moved out to san francisco a few years ago to pursue a lifelong dream

of living here it is an expensive city and supplement my income i rent rooms out many my apartment so i've had nothing but positive experiences you're going home sharing and it allowed me to maintain the home i love so, please let me continue to welcome the renters and the neighbors are staying with me as well please give us the change to see this law work i applied for my registration weeks ago and i was quite surprised to get a letter in the mail they want me to report taxes we're trying to work through this thing together i only host through airbnb i know

they've o mitsdz the taxes on my on behalf of this is a curve ball so, please let's give it a chance and work with the protective we all came together on tuesday >> thank you for the opportunity to speak i'm j p a long time resident of san francisco san francisco has been a place where opportunity has literally been in our backyard i've been active in business organization and proud to call this place my home home sharing people have discovered the opportunity that extra bedroom as the industry xroesz that is not hard to see what can be down to improve it to make sure we're doing 0 the

right thing to do but between business and government leaders and because of way those amendments have come about you've seen input if our community that's wonderful about home sharing and airbnb that touches airbnb it gives my friends my neighbors the ability to be small business owners in ways they've not dreamed of and participated in san francisco the hotel and tourism industry and allowed retina to stay in their homes and retire xhovnl and to reinvent themselves like hive not dreamed of that's a wonderful thing or less a friend of mine from 43 allergy he found a home sharing room yet near debois park a wonderful woman opened her home and served him

chose and saudi 3 days more and he shopped and used our transportation and ate at our restaurants and spent his money in your economy imagine more people like him and visitors like him visit our wonderful neighbors and neighborhood and residents so i'd like to make sure that. >> your time is up thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm bryce bennett from glen park i own my home with my husband as consumers we've been told to shop and eat locally this encourages people to stay at our home we make our place

forcible for people to visit we're legally refrmd we're none thirty the rental process is horrible it is way too difficult you guys need to correct that we rent out one spare bedroom in our home that norm would not be represented on the open market not renting to a renter rather see it go empty we make it affordable for people to visit by those people visit we've actually asked a few of the people and normally not come to san francisco if forced to stay in a hotel it allows those people that stays at our place to shop locally and creating more jobs with that money we earn from the airbnb that affords us to 35i our mortuary and property tax and spend out

more nights in the city that creates for jobs if you cap our days it stops the money flow keep jobs locally thank you. >> (calling names) boy i'm getting tired (laughter). >> my name is listing my mom and you are co-owners it's a

home i've raised my three children i support home sharing i'm a airbnb host for the loose 3 years and home sharing has allowed us to stay in the home and the cost of the about how far city and allows my college age children and elderly mom to come and go awhile providing us with the income and pay for college expenses plus we love our guests i'm registered adding the number of cap the majority of our guests prefer home sharing and have a friendly traveling experience most won't take a trip airbnb are supporting local businesses and paying tax adding a cap from the primary residence is unnecessarily

inpuffy won't rent to long term owners this is not southern california the housing crisis other solutions are needed i'm i've been in compliance with the new legislation that was passed by number 5 at best it was a little bit confusing i'm being harassed by the tax collector and the sf official told me to ignore the notices from the tax collector i urge you to keep the fair legislation that was already approved and resolve issues with fascinating hosts registration with the planning department please support us we can easily survive thank you. >> good evening ever good

afternoon. i'm a registered airbnb host living think potrero hill concerned about the changes their disappoint not 3 whole most not 90 days and many hosts are going through the somewhat multiple step process of getting registered might have we signed up for this with the new perimeters in the legislation and the changes will fundamentally change that understanding and punish those of us who have stepped forward this represents the worse girlfriend bad faith and cruel switch tactic that harms residents and small business owners as a homeowner my biggest concern is changing the legislation by limiting the number of days one hundred 20

from the current 360 per year a 60 percent decrease many my ability to supplement my income this will place a strain upon me as well as another hosts as someone nearing retirement i'm 64 year-olds this is essential to make end meet would you appreciate having our benefits arley reduced i'm fairly sure the city won't replace my lost income if those amendments are adopted and encompassed on home sharing it is hard to comprehend how to be a short-term rental home will not change my home to

a long-term rental unit thank you very much. >> hello i'm cindy i appreciate this opportunity to tell my story no support of home sharing hive been a homeowner for 28 years city property tax that should maple something i have a spare bedroom my husband was a native of the san francisco and never thought he'd be able to own a home i have this - we did what it took to become homeowners we worked hard to put our names on the title of our home in 2010 a so-called friend defaulted me

from a home savings he left me with a pile of debt and airbnb is a beacon of light in a dark tunnel my hosting is an extension of pride in my city i looked at it to a day i'll be able to see a few giant games and go to the american people are a and blaelts i meet new folks for hosting and live my life the without thought of leaving airbnb represent to me and one hundred and 20 day cap is no acceptable it makes a big difference to me i remembering ask you have respect for me and

other people and not minimize the number of nights i can have in my home thank you. >> i want to appreciate you i can't believe you're still here milestone my brain is not working well but i wanted to ask how many people have tried to rent a place in the last year tried to rent there just two great so i was in my home for 20 years and born and raised in city government san francisco and my parents are homeowners i get it it breaks my heart the amount of people that use the term rent they won't rent to me is singularly what they are saying i had to leave my home and trying to find a home i'm a

teacher i teach children and volunteer in the city and use bart and go to walnut u restaurant all the things that short-term rental people do it i put a lot of money into san francisco and i don't presenter i do appreciate how much people are trying to do the right thing by registering and all the things they're talking about and i wish the process were easier i've not heard anyone say their begin airbnb having the registered people on there only i not heard that why is that proposal against it it didn't make sense they should let registered people be airbnb host and not

style the bad apples we have thank you for your time. >> i'm chris a long time san francisco resident and homeowner a landlord and small business owner i'm a member of a large number of neighborhood association and small business successors i'm here to talk about the small business community in the castro yet there is a strong demand from the population who lives here for small business changes and other kinds of businesses that comes here the castro has a limit space combroet people want to colonel to the city because of the castro and experience the castro and end up staying in other parts of city allowing the

home sharing there be or are a lot of them it brings people into the community and allows them to see san francisco through the eyes of the people that live there you know it is the unique independent businesses and the culture that brought me here in the first place so i hope you consider did small business community when you make decision. >> members of the planning commission thank you for the opportunity to speak i'm alex in san francisco for 17 years in noah valley i love san francisco because of it's external and diversity like many of the san franciscans i wasn't born here but ioof been hosting in my home it is a tremendously rewarding experience i've connected with

my guests and they act like locals they're not tourist they pat news our industry i share my primary my family home that allows me to fund a company i couldn't have done this without slayer for 9 months now i'm barely off the ground i've taken a big step to hiring two full-time employees and using that income to represent in the city when the board of supervisors finally allowed us to do what we do and make ends meet i registered i had great hopes it struck a fair balance limentd to it to our primary residents if i can only share it

it can't effect the availability of housing if the city i pay my dues and pay taxes local small businesses don't need more red tape i ask you not to change the rules i urge you not to treat us infairly we are san franciscans and trying to make end moot we're pay attention and we vote thank you. >> (calling names) >> good evening. i'm steve

arnold's a san francisco native my came from oregon our 3 girls were born and raised here we lived in the sunny neighborhood our second house a 3 bedroom two blocks away in the in case of time as our girl went to high school now we have a empty nest we had to borrow for college we lived we've earned this through sweat equity and have a right to use our home as we see fit requiring the guest it has a positive effect the airbnb selection process weeds out bad acres and the strangers can be

interested we proudly began our registration and support the t ot the city collects from airbnb the current recollections make sense their crafted to allow san franciscans to use their homes as at the includes please keep this principle in mind. >> thank you. >> please note i beat the buzzer. >> we appreciate that. >> thank you commissioners for giving me the opportunity to speak i'm a registered - i moved to san francisco and bought our first home in sunset i didn't side we stated in the city when others raised their kids in the subsidiaries we wanted to raise our children and san francisco

is diverse we raised our children awhile putting them through college we want to use the extra money from renting other families and young families are struggling to stay in the city please don't take this opportunity by capping the number of days i ask you not put a cap on the number of days hosts can share their home. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm ashley my supervisor is scott wiener thank you. i've lived in the castro for about a year i plan on spend the rest of my life in san francisco so i'm not actually a host but

an advocate for the traveler everywhere i go it connects me to people and gives me a sense of their community about a year ago i used airbnb and had an amazing experience you know, i didn't think i would end up licking it because the people i stated with teresa and her husband welcomed me with open arms and basically the way i saw amarillo is the way i want people to see san francisco we have an authentic side and home sharing provides a local view of the community we want to people to experience the walk across the around bow walks putting a

cap is detrimental think about it if you don't let people stay that will not have as much money people want to make their ridiculously high mortuaries this limits the time and reduced the amount of visitors and sharing that with the world we should cherish to cherish it together thank you. >> good evening bobby san francisco tenants union i don't think that is the mayors affordability plan to turn residents of san francisco into hotel workers or the mayors housing plan to take affordable units off the market as a matter

of fact the mayors derivative says the option to preserve affordable housing and that's a primary derivative earlier last week, i testified on the difficulty with fire violation enforcement objective the city is to the presented to have tourist coming in places not equipped with sprinklers as though their hotels if the mayor voted he'd support this as a fair balance note that airbnb is not a city proofrp it if the city need a platform it is not a city car share it is a copy looking to do an ipo later in the year with powerful voices behind that

so real affordability would be not turning residents into hotelers and avenues for them to do that if that is what they need to do not cave one hundred 20 days is 4 months out of the year the people say they won't rent to renter are telling a big story here. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm pam i'm speaking because i think i might offer a unique prospective i went through the process thirty years ago almost thirty years to become a bed-and-breakfast and been doing that from my home almost 28 years 88 do the math so i just want to say that's an

incredibly positive experience and i'm completely aware as a natural foe to those foe bed-and-breakfast keepers but i'm not i recognize real clearly the need for this type of lodging i'm basically a referral agency and i used to have a a lot of folks in the neighborhood i've no place i'm give them back to airbnb it is huge that i have that place to refer to there's a definite need ucsf alone i have almost inclusive medical people that come in to interning

usually 3 months or more we need it that's all. >> next speaker and hi there i'm trying to keep this short i've been host for almost 6 years from airbnb a guest room my wife and i rent out i came here to encourage you to give the law we argued about for 3 years time to work and in place over two months and we need to give it a chance to see if it works during the first month obamacare now 1 seven months more than thirty million at the beginning of a new law