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thousand units out and put them back into the rental market that will achieve 1/3rd of the housing units by 2030 so how much would it cost the city to build take $10,000 multiplied a one hundred million dollars bond that's the cost of 3 the house unites off the housing market thank you very much supervisors. >> good evening supervisors i feel lime i've been here two weeks ago the results of the statistics i'm not in that mind frame right now i really as a result san franciscan i was born here and went to school and raised any children and worked and retired from the san francisco i've never seen such a
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crisis or we've seen a lot of people come here from different places or having different cultures and masses of like the so-called hippie generation that are supportive but this is beyond sdruchgs it is distribution destruction and the airbnb a small part has an impact on the neighborhoods i grew up in a community no longer living in a community i'm one the thirds o two-thirds of this culture that rents and the remaining some percentage of people that live here because so many people have been adapted i think i support supervisor campos legislation and if it explicit glow the board i'll support it on the bottle i think this is we need more
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regulation in this city this is a small move not a dramatic thing to do it mate preserve our neighborhoods which the mission is right now the target of the whole east side of san francisco has been effected and especially those contingency that people like to rent and live there temporarily because their home like they have good restaurants, etc. but that's for the residents not for tourists we commercial lists san francisco and given it to the one percent i'm - >> thank you tech sf roberto hernandez you still here no bryan please come on up. >> hello supervisors bryan with the aids housing alliance there
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our several points i know that is a difficult place for you supervisors to be in i'm sure you've spent with time the airbnb approach educate on their view it is important to look at almost every tenant in the city ate the san francisco apartments association have gotten together and spent a who bunch of time together we're in agreement that's a rare thing and something to take notation of unfortunately ,those platforms and their business models don't allow for san francisco and this reports under counts the number ever units taken off the math they only have the opportunity to look at one approach people good from approach to approach and a to platform 50 days or 8 days on one approach we're
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seriously under counting the number of days off the market we did building and promote that trickle down housing policy which not a lot of us don't do we have to be consistent we can't say to build build build over here and try to sweep under the carpet all the housing it didn't work that way and also, we have to take into consideration the spill over of the loss of the rental units and have to examine the proposition for the harm for the proportionate good i'm under counting the quality of life is proved improved before i this business i have to look at people that are sharing on sro room people that are homeless and their harm versus you're good -
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>> roger are you here still all right. pam are you here and lawrence and next and jamie learner. >> mr. roger. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm roger the president of the western council that represents 20 homeowners associations in san francisco we support this is fair to homeowners that need extra money and to protect the single-family unit neighborhoods we've support the conditional use permit as long as it didn't violate the neighbors but this provides no protection to the homeowners that live here in zoned residential neighborhoods there's no question of before a
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short-term rental is allowed in a arrange neighborhood there's a approach to for permit right of action it only means that that hmos is have litigation even if a association files to file for cc&rs the violate can claim a violation average should be required to give the neighbors an opportunity to be heard as at the do with the zoning variance eye otherwise the city allows unauthorized bed-and-breakfast if people want to apply for a b and b license they should be encouraged supervisors that is a zoning issue please protect the
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zoning laws and the residential neighborhoods. >> thank you. next speaker. and hi, i'm pam i'm a homeowner with my husband in potrero hill we've been hormone sharing and the income allows me to start my own small business and year ago it allowed me to cut back my hours to take care of my baby that's how it helped us and been to meet a lot of the neighborhoods incellist the owners of a pizza shop stayed us with when their that in-law unit had a baby
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also, because there's no hotels as i said earlier downtown potrero hill and the developing area mission next to potrero hill we often get the small businesses we send the around folks their way we prefer to have a higher cap or no cap at all in order to stay and afford to live in san francisco and promote the mission in coastline. >> thank you very much for being here >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> what's your name. >> i don't think i've called you yet michelle go ahead and michelle (laughter) quickly i'm a san francisco resident for that 12 years i've been a
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homeowner for 12 increases years in the missions i provide professional career services for women help them previously develop i've rented out my bedroom to generate rental income but a year ago i broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years he moved out and two weeks ago i letting i was let go of my job in a pitch i don't know how to stay in san francisco and afford everything housing a roommate was not a possibility and airbnb was able to give me and provide that what i needed to tie myself over i stayed in san francisco and afforded the level of health care i nodded at the time i'm asking you from thankfully i was
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able to get employed i ask you not put the cap because other people maybe facing similar emergency situations and need more hundred and 20 days to recover thank you. >> (calling names). >> in the future folks take pride in writing our names on the card so i and other colleagues can read them. >> hi, i'm bill i sometimes work with the anti eviction map
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i'm also one the people that does some of the data scraping you've heard in our reports again, a custodian i'm gladly you brought up the numbers war where you say this i say that i want to clarify some of the numbers that airbnb has been stating to give prospective on what they may say in the future one april 23rd at the san francisco planning commission airbnb spokeswoman david owen stated every month airbnb pace a little bit over one million dollar in hotel taxes and every month the host makes between 5 hundred and one thousand dollars that same day in the morning he put-down out a statement on the
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website saying the will average host makes more than one thousand dollars each month. and he put out a previous statement the same thing april 19th well i did not see the whole page i've got to tell you there's no mathematical system ♪ universe where those two numbers live together if you're doing one thousand dollars a month as a host in san francisco the most of the tax that airbnb is paying is close to 7 hundred in you're getting one million dollars in tax each host is making over $18,000 take everything airbnb says - >> thank you.
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>> is there another speaker that wants to comment on that andrew is that you, please come on up. >> i work with the san francisco tenants union born and raised in san francisco it is indeed ironic as supervisor campos said as supervisor wiener and supervisor farrell championed a rhetoric of push back of the providing that data that makes this legislation enforceable and this concern about data privacy a reaction to text messages between agencies whether should i i didn't or racism i it cops it was dictated that got those bad overlooks if you have nothing to hide why are you worried about when a report
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to done to analyze the short-term rental responsibility e reports there's so many doubts of an objective analysis and perhaps that place a question on this might be advised to question with similar rigor their own idealogy it used this to suggest we need more housing apply for the basic facts as supervisor farrell supervisor farrell says of housing only when the data contradicts the how's ideal metrological you can't have it both because with that said, i strongly supported supervisor campos legislation we need to regulate those short-term rentals. >> thank you alex are you here you already spoke.
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>> okay chuck. >> welcome. >> thank you for trying to pronounce my last name i'm charles a long time resident of san francisco a recent retire indicator educator i pay 8 thousand there's a year to san francisco in property tax it is i think bunt to take care of my dabbled daughter my wife and i are spending several thousand dollars to model model our unit we're licensed as everyone else is spoken but actuality that the kind of regulation that is proposed the thirty or 60 over and over 90 or hundred and 20 days any kind of days doesn't admit my swugs with all due respect it didn't work for me
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we're not taking a unit off the market that was no unit on the mark overwhelmingly that unit is true of my people in the room i don't have time to explain supervisors why i'm not going to be able to rented it for hundred 20 dies or 60 days didn't work what i know that be true, sir and ma'am my story is no more than valid whether they agree but i believe in talking to the economic itself to limit the number of days is no way enough to solve a complex economic problem there's a ocean of problem between someone i am reintroducing to maintain their home in san francisco and perhaps in our district go who cleans out a building and evicts a bad tenants we need to know
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the difference tven the two one-size-fits-all limiting the number of days didn't limit this it is a bad what are you to remove a bad law. >> thank you oh, cecelia garcia (laughter) just kidding dennis. >> i like fruits too then take it away. >> i'm dennis a city planning commissioner i'm here as a private citizen one of the things i don't want to take away all the good work by supervisor chiu i've sat here painful listening to the data, etc. we don't is reliable data that's the issue important one area we need to focus on the bad actors how do euphoric on the bad actors you have to get reliable
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data the planning recommendation for hosting platforms lies the valid register number is the lynch pin the protective analyze report you'll hosting platforms need to have a valid register before lisa house i think there are different listing models i get that from hosting platforms so have it this will level the playing field for all hosting platforms is drives good and efficient enforcement and good plo seattle and seal beach is trying to do this we need to do it for the actresses that don't want to cooperate let's the city attorney shut them down
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we can prepare the city and the platforms and the hosts and outline compliance and everyone get time to adapt this is moving forward with that new type of arrangement i want to say complaint based systems terrible idea usual pushing your enforcement into me that's a bad idea and has got to go the city's job to enforce that with good data. >> next speaker. >> (calling names). >> hi, i'm a 31 year-old adult that grew up in benchmarking i moved to san francisco in 09 and this kind of sales contrary job you have a better roll call moved in with my cousins any cousins had issues moved out got
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someone on craigslist i was afraid of making rent i'm a pro tenants right. i shared the tenant rights to him like if i was a landlord charging exactly half the rents about 6 months in he lost his job it happened 3 more times and the next roommate had trouble making rents i couldn't make the rodent on my own i was a fan of new people and experiences and that is something that airbnb offers me it is an incredible service i decide how much of my space i went to an after party yesterday and walk in closest was the size of my entire closet i said i'm a host and average i understand if
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you want to rent out half ever that is a good way to get a roommate especially one you're not going to be getting an i think sight airbnb offers a one-million dollar insurance policy is helps the customer and host i'm a customer of airbnb if i come to san francisco i can assure you i'll not been able to pay $550 a night i charge 80 donors dollars a night and they find it nice and fair and guest rooms. >> thank you, mary listen are you here edwardo and others we're moving on to the next set of tone people (calling names)
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sir did i call your name? please come to the podium >> i'm david thompson i have a tenant that takes in guests 2 hundred and 40 days of the year it is the only woo to pay the rent there are many people like him struggling to get by to them unlimited short-term rentals are a god sent
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i urge you to keep the distinction between hosted and non-hosted rental spelled out in the law hosting when your there and restricted on the latter at times you're not there i realize there are abuses in the system and need better enforcement let's clamp down on the profiteders i stand with supervisor farrell on the idea of a establishing a short-term rental administration to deal with that problem. >> i'm afraid the planning department might not be up to the task which brings me to the new report from the budget and analyst office reporting to show how airbnb rentals have a
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negative impact anyone that is read the report knows how flawed it is just ask supervisor farrell i'll close by saying give a fair chance to the law that took effect february 1st, let's help my tenants to stay in san francisco think of this as an affordable unit measure use short term to live here long term thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> jennifer. >> hi jennifer coalition open homelessness. you know when airbnb when i first heard about it the quasi it was described it was kind of like a low income way to travel a hippie thing you sleep on people's couches and through a cat's on the floor clearly at
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that power point it is totally different 2 thousand units that are taken off the market in san francisco we have a serious problem a situation in san francisco as everyone is pooifl away of a huge housing crisis when it comes to people come out housing they have the most negative impacts of that housing impacts on them they expect their life expectancy to be short and large amount of families homeless and children are experiencing homeless and thousands and thousands of people that disabilities and a huge problem when folks make massive profit by rent out like hotels it is time to halt that
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practice enacts are devastating for the coalition at homelessness we see everyday what the impacts and what was drying up used to be casual living arrangements people could share a flat their drying up with the short-term rentals folks could get together and families take in other families those are drying up for communities as a matter of law people are living in horrendous conditions i'll ask the board to step in and pass the legislation to limit airbnb and the rest of the short-term rental companies >> okay keith is there a gentleman named keith tracey and jeff come on up
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tracey and others (calling names) i don't know what that go says it could be evans. >> tracey i'm a single-family home owner we purchased a home in bruno heights it is a small 3 bedroom home we've raised 3 kids my children attend the public schools over the past 5 years i've rented out the home and used the money to travel i'm not charging much i'm transpiring to
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cover the costs by the outrageous high represents we use average instead of cementing i don't want to deal with collecting the money and any problems like choosing who stays in my home i prefer a family i had a nice quiet family of 3 my neighbors were delighted and the house was quiets they took of our house and brought up the mail and they like staying there instead of the hotels because of the parks next year i'm rent italy out we'll have two kids attend college and 50 years tuition it will be difficult for my family we live in a comprehensive city so while earning more money awhile anothers to pay bills we're
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countered high other persons and don't qualify for financial aids mr. and mrs. please help us we're not taking hosting away from the city we rent our homes assisting the family homeowners to rent out conflicting the real challenge is my - >> thank you you almost got by me. >> next speaker. >> jeff and i'm not jeff. >> oh, nationally i can't i live with my girlfriend we live is a two-bedroom apartments and rent the second bedroom for 10
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months i'm standing in front of you not to put a cap on the number of days not rent but list our second bedroom onion airbnb the first reason is affordability we won't be able to go n live in the city if we can't list on airbnb for most of the year second and san francisco is a wonderful place to live we want to live here one of the reasons is you know it's a really hub for technology it is a hub for border movement in light world and big ideas moving forward this is important and brings up me to my second reason it is allowing me to pursue my calling that is to be in the fields of personal development i'm building my fold