many landlords in the city are being motivated by high rents using loophole existing laws to evict tenants. the city needs to fix certain blahs tenants cannot speak english -- i personally know that we have members here today who are currently going through evictions because they have fallen victim to these leap loopholes.

so current housing crisis also making tenants in the city feeling scareds. we strongly demand supervisors to supported the eviction 2.0 amendments and stabilize your community. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. this is javier and i'm reading his pre-written statement. may, 20 is a i won a adu case against my landlord. these days i feel more atpeace, but i noticed that during the open house, the people that would come to look at the apartment were not latinos. there is only about three or four families left that are latinos. the landlord at times would

come into our apartment with the pre-text of pest control but use the opportunity to come into our bedrooms. sometimes she would tell my wife that her mexican food smelled bad and our apartment smelled like dirty clothes and would urge us to go do laundry. she would also make issues of my daughter bringing her soccer friends to visit and went so far as posting pictures of my daughter's friends for other tenants to report when they came over. i can't even invite my own family over, because it would cause problems. i didn't see any other option, but to good fight. in order we received five notices of breach of lease --

we're not used to living with three or four families and we no option to fight and we won. >> gracias. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> buenos tardes. >> translator: hello my name is maria silva and i think i'm a great example -- the

landlord in our apartment was trying to evict us saying that our family was too big, but it's just me, mys and two husband and two children.

>> translator: the harassment began about three years ago, but the biggest notice we received was the 25th of february. that is when we started the hard fight. i remember that that day i got home from work and i was really hungry, but i had to leave to look for help, because i found the notice on my door. this unlawful detainer left me frustrated with anxiety and depressed. during the whole time -- during the whole process, i felt discriminated against and harassed. where we were going to go? i felt anxiety. it affect the my youngest child. i didn't know my rights at the

time even after we won our case, the landlord continued to harass us through our attorney. she would make claims that we making our payments on-time, even though she was the one not cashing the checks. at times we would see her and we would grow panicked and

prefer to come back until she was come. i feel like my anxiety really affected my youngest child. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my my name is ross, and eye a tenants right attorney and i'm reading testimony on behalf of our client, jeffrey shelton who lost his home. i had an active life while managing my health.a single hiv positive gay men, it was a culminnation of a live of hard work. i asked my landlord if my long-term disabled boyfriend could move in with me. any landlord had my boyfriend complete a rental application and made some unlawful demands on me.

ohio next year the landlord began a campaign of harassment to cause me to abandon my home and installed security cameras in the building and would ask whether my boyfriend was living at the apartment? after a year of harassment i was served an eviction notice accuse of violation of 12 different ways. in vague acquisitions accusations of disrespecting the landlord. i received notices and incurred legal defenses and to object to these gross invasions of my privacy. my home became a construction zone. with no end in sight i eventually gave up hi my home and moved to another area.

eviction 2.0 could have aided in my fight to remain in san francisco. my story is an example of how landlords abuse their ability to evict and harass tenants based on agreements -- i'm hopeful if i have the opportunity to return to san francisco i will not be again forced to accept that [speaker not understood] >> thank you, next speaker. my name is bill. second generation san francisco native. my grandparents moved here a little over 100 years ago, one from spain, one from russian and where would i be today if i didn't have rights? you know, i think about this landlord deal. in my 70 years' of living in san francisco i have seen what people after 20, 30 years get evicted from a house, after they paid for it.

you don't only rent it, but help pay for that house. landlords are a big part of that, but instead of rewarding you, they evict you and that is wrong. i love san francisco and i hate to leave it. my kids are third-generation and i hope they stick around another 70-100 years. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> my name is cheryl chen and i oppose this. i represent a group of working-class homeowners/landlords. we have paid $100,000 to $1 million for the houses that we own. if our own money. it's not government money. who should decide who should be

in our house, especially for those who violate the law? not following the rental a[pwra-eplt/], do not pay the rent, disturb the peace and safety of the neighborhood. why can't we rent to the people who follow the law and who pay the rent? it's their duty to pay the rent. it's their duty to follow the law, follow the rental agreement. we would like to rent it to the people who follow the law, who pay the rent. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> okay, ladies and gentlemen, asa courtesy reminder, there is no applause, booing or chanting or hissing or any kind of auditory response. if you hear something that you like, just hold up your hangs fingers like this, the spirit finger also communicates to the people at home watching the television as well. thank you. >> thank you.

i'm the owner of small rental property. i'm speaking in opposition to your proposal, supervisor kim. thank you all for your attention. i have own my rental property for 10 years. i am withholding units from the market. i am going to read aloud to you an excerpt from an item published by the bay citizen written by elizabeth stevens in april 30, 2011 entitled "small time landlords versus big time tenant rights ." in san francisco one of the toughest places in the country to find a place to live, more than 31000 housing units, one of every 12 now sit vacant according to recently released census data. that is the highest vacancy

rate in the region and 70% increase from a decade ago. increasingly small -time landlords are just giving up. i am one of them. and your legislation as proposed, supervisor kim, will not incentivize me to return my rental units to the market. i will continue to withhold them if your legislation is adopted. i predict more people, more property owners will join me, and that 31,000 units being withheld and kept vacant will increase and that will result with greater stress for tenants, increased prices for rental units. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello my name is betty,

resident of san francisco and a proud resident of district 6. i am here to talk about what is happening on yerba buena island with the city being my landlord. >> i'm sorry, you have to speak on i. item 9. >> i am speaking on item 9. we support this legislation and are proceed of supervisor kim's proposal to bring rights to the weakest and most vulnerable in our city. our community consists of low-income and very low-income members and in that sense, many of our community members are being harassed, and intimidated to depart from their homes in order to clear the way for luxury housing development. and in that, it's going to be too late for my neighbors, but

we hope that if this legislation is passed, it can protect not only district 6ybi community, but also all of the members of all of the people of the city of san francisco from unlawful behavior, and intimidation, and wrongful eviction. thanks so much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my my name is andrew long and i live in district 8, scott wiener's district. i am here to speak against this legislation. i think this is a housing-killer. there is so many things wrong with it, but i will start with first of all your through no-fault eviction. they lived in their property for ten years. their situation changed and they moved on. you think they are going to rent out their old place for what was rented for 10, 11 years ago when they first moved? of course not.

those units will become permanently non-rental and sold to new occupiers. in terms of the roommate thing, allowing more and more roommates is unacceptable. it's contrary to lease agreements. and you are just going to take nice buildings that have reasonable numbers of people living in them and turn them into slums as people start packing in more and more roommates. finally, the thing about the illegal units. you can be in a situation, that you have a property owner that is getting a notice of violation from dbi over and over again, for having residents in a commercial space. and there is nothing that owner can do about it. and in terms of this eviction thing, as far as giving the translated language thing is fine, but the other provisions i think will create more delay tactics for bad tenants to delay or defeat just evictions for things, like, nuisance and

lease violations and anything who has lived next door to a drug-dealer knows what a nuisance is. and all you are doing is giving more tools for people like that to stay in place and continue to deal drugs. i think you should kill this now. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you for having me, my name is allison and i live in castro, and i'm a teacher in san francisco at the san francisco unified school district. my landlord is currently being sued by the city of san francisco. i have lived in castro for ten years, nine of those years were just fine until a year-ago, when the owner purchased my property. at which points threatening and harassing texts and phone calls and letters came in the mail, accusing me of breaches of lease, such as having my partner move in with me, despite me having the right for my former landlord in writing that she could live

there and also her being on the estoppel. she asked if we were registered domestic partners and then came the questions about my dog, my yellow lab named harveyee milk, whether or not he can live at my home, despite me signing a pet addendum to my lease >> she continues to throw spaghetti to the roll because i'm rent-controlled and i would like to remain in my home and to continue to teach at san francisco unified school district, where currently there is over 500 teacher vacancies because teachers can't afford to live here. i would like to remain in my home and i would like to live in the community that i serve. thank you for your time. >> thank you for teaching in our school district. >> hi, my name is sarah, from housing rights committee. we have a housing crisis in san francisco. and we have an eviction crisis

in san francisco. some of these landlords want to pretend they are subsidizing tenants. i have to say i wish my wage went up with inflation every year. and i'm sure you all -- everyone else does, too. there is an eviction crisis because there is greedy landlords in san francisco. there is a line out of door at housing rights committee like there is at every group in town. i can't go to a park on the bus, to a bar, hang out talk to my neighbors in front of my house or baby showered without someone telling me about getting an eviction notice or getting harassed by the landlord. this law will take care of things, like, when landlords over and over make it clear they want the tenant out for more money and they usually often say that. they are like take a buyout or you know how much i could represent your apartment for? and turn around a couple of weeks later and give 3-day

notices for things that clearly they haven't cared about the last how many years. they didn't care about the parakeet or landry or shoes in the hallway until suddenly they think they can make more money. this is why we need this legislation. this legislation is about every tenant group in town saying what ways are landlords using loopholes in the law to trick people out? this is about greed. the last point i want to make on illegal units. landlords who rent out illegal units rented them to these tenants to make money. they can get a demolition permit, give relocation money and ask for 60 days still under this law. we're just saying that you can't give somebody 3-day notice for something that you rented out in the first place. >> thank you. thank you very much.

next speaker, please. >> tony robles from the heritage foundation and senior and disability. the landlords that are suffering hardships that they are offering somehow benevolence, if that were the case, we wouldn't have a need for 2.0 tenant protections. these protections that have been proposed are reasonable. now very recently we had some 20 filipino-americans that reside on natomas street get hit with 3-day notices for very innocuous reasons. it had not been for the close-knit community that included services like senior and disability action, asian pacific islander outreach and

west bay filipino multi-services, you know, these families perhaps would not be able to stay in their homes. district 6 of the course is part of the youth and family zone are sda zones and other agencies and it remains the home of vulnerable populations including low-income filipino-americans and for areas targeted for wealthier residents. progress should not come at the expense of the poor. that is why these new proposals such as having notices put in english, and other languages for people that are mono lingual, taking away the landlord's profit motives for evicting long-term, underserved tenants are all reasonable things. we're coming upon august 4th, the 38th anniversary of the evictions of the i-hotel and let's pass this in their memory.

because it was out of control now and it's way out of control now. they are off the chain and we have to reign them in, because they are out of control. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. romoro from mission development agency. i'm a mission resident. i just want to say thank you to supervisor kim. everything that we can make to keep rent control and keep tenants in san francisco is valuable and deserves all of the support of the public. i really appreciate what you are doing. for every unit that we are building we are losing also almost a unit. and this legislation protections the most vulnerable tenants in the city. for the landlords that start this business of renting, they know the conditions.

and they are just blind by the greed of money and using these tacticks to destroy of the diversity of this city. we cannot allow that to happen, and people will come every time here to the city hall to reclaim this city as a city for diversity, for working-class people living in these neighborhoods. i hope that you understand the message very clear from the community for all of the city. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisor kim. my name is hong and i appreciate you listening. first of all, i oppose the proposal, because i think you didn't focus on the main problem is the demand for the

housing. thank you for thinking about how to protect. protection is good, but this way it will create even more restrictions of the rental stock. basic economics, you know that the invisible hand -- this is the basis [pwa*-eubgs/] basic rule. 95% of the tenants -- [speaker not understood] the 99% who obey the law, so you are going to reduce to

rent -- -- no surprise. the landlord pay the tax more and more each year. the city should make less law to restrict and deep the incentive for more affordable housing. >> thank you. next speaker. remember? no applause. next speaker. >> my name is tracy.

i'm a small property owner. i strongly oppose the legislation no. 9. let me tell you some sad story of the small property owner of san francisco. small property owner of san francisco between the san francisco government and the tenants. city government is too much on tenants' side. keep making so many unfair laws against the property owner. some have bad tenants who don't pay the rent for a year. landlords should be paid -- $50,000 or $100,000, but the

bad tenants can get free lawyers from the city. because the unfair housing law, so many property owners don't want to put their in-law market or the house in the market. that is why the market rent the rent goes too high. when school, departments, libraries, teachers -- -- small property owners have been the easy target for unfair predatory

-- >> thank you, next speaker. next speaker, please. >> hello. >> translator: my my name is jean. i want to protect my house. i worked so hard and i don't want to rent to bully tenants. i was threatened by the bully tenants and lost $365,000. my name is christie. a small property owner in san francisco.

i am here today to oppose the rent amendment 150646. the first part of this amendment requests landlord after certain vacancis to set new base rent. this presents a big disadvantage to homeowners who want to rent units or their property after a long period of time. according to sfgate, the rental price in san francisco raised 10.6% compared to the national average of 3% in 2013. if this ordinance is passed those homeowners will be less motivated to rent out their property. therefore, decreasing the number of properties for the rent in san francisco, a city with an increased population is really bad. okay? secondly, i strongly