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>> welcome, everyone to the land use committee meeting. i'm sorry. let's start over again all right back welcome everyone to the land use committee meeting of monday, september 24th, 2018. i am katy tang back chair of this committee. from s.f. guv t.v., we would like to think charles and jim

smith. are there any announcements? >> clerk: silence all cell phones and electronic devices and complete speaker cars to be included as part of the file that should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon will appear on october 2nd second board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor tang: thank you. can you call items one through seven together? his bakery items item -- items one through seven are ordinances to amend the planning code to designate landmark for new hotel , local 77 union hall at -- and new appendices to articles ten and 11 for the warehouse historic district. the conservation district and p3 district and market mason conservation district and affirming appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: thank you. due to noticing issues for a couple of items, we will ask our committee to continue

all seven items to our october 1 st land use committee meeting and we will do that after public comment. anyone who would like to speak on items one through seven please come on up. ok. seeing then, public comment is closed. we can continue items one through seven until october 1st . can we do that? can someone make a motion? we will do that without objection. thank you. ok. item eight, police lease. >> clerk: item h. is the ordinance amending the building code to establish a process review for the building inspection commission and code advisory committee of legislation proposed by the board of supervisors in affirming appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: thank you. i will call built strong up here from the of building inspection. in a nutshell, this item is really codifying a process for the building inspection commission and the code advisory committee for any amendments that the board of supervisors make to the billing code. it has been done in practice but

not in encode in code. mr strong? >> thank you very much, supervisor. we appreciate you bringing this forward. we have talked about doing this for a bit now. as you have said, we are just codifying an already existing process and really doing it in cooperation with advice from our city attorney who recommended that we move forward with this. with the building inspection commission, they did vote unanimously just last week in support of this ordinance. we very much appreciate that. >> supervisor tang: thank you, very much. any questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none, we've all pulled at -- we will open up a debate to public comment. any members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can get a motion on item eight, please. all right.

there is a motion to send to the full board with positive recommendation. we can do that without objection thank you, very much. madame clark, please call items nine through 11 together. >> clerk: item number 9 is an ordinance amending the general plan to advise the bayview hunters point plan to reflect the india basin mixed-use project and to adopt appropriate findings. item number 10 is an ordinance amending the planning code to establish the india basin special use district. by amending the zoning map and making appropriate findings. item number 11 is an ordinance approving the developer his agreement between the city and county of san francisco and india basin investment l.l.c. in making appropriate findings. >> supervisor tang: i apologize. i think the captioning is not reflective of where it is at right now. we are on items nine through 11.

which should be about india basin. i believe supervisor cohen wanted to be here at this hearing. i don't see her yet. but perhaps we do have a number of presenters. perhaps we can go to them first. we do have matt schneider from planning, courtney from builds and someone from the economic and workforce development at the minimum. we will maybe get in touch with supervisor cohen's office. ok.

>> supervisor tang: i apologize. supervisor cohen wants to open up this hearing. we will actually go and call item 121st. -- item 12 first. >> clerk: it is the resolution supporting california state proposition ten. the affordable housing act on the november 6th, 2018 ballot and reaffirming the city and consent -- city and county of san francisco appeal for the rental housing act. >> supervisor tang: thank you. i do know that we -- we will just have to weighed a few minutes. -- we will just have to wait a few minutes.

>> supervisor tang: and moving down the line. we will go to item 131st

because some members are not here. item 13, please. >> clerk: item 13 is a hearing on whether we dry -- drive transportation are in compliance with the board of supervisors resolution number 9615 and the current neighbour negotiations with the local 853. and whether the correspondence disruption plan provision. >> supervisor tang: the caption is not reflective possibly. this is a hearing sponsored by supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: anybody here from the teamsters here. can we ask the members from the teamsters 853 -- we have really good news to report on the site and. i would like to let one of the members -- maybe we can do public comment on this item and they can come back. >> supervisor tang: we can do public comment on item 13. welcome. >> thank you. my name is adolph felix.

i'm the business agent representing teamsters local 853 and i chaired the negotiations. i am happy to report that we obtained a recommended agreement that was ratified by 97% of our members voting saturday. now we have nearly 800 happy bus drivers. we want to thank the committee for whatever assistance they did to render that. there is no need to proceed any further with this hearing. >> supervisor tang: thank you for sharing that news with us. is there anyone else who would like to comment on this particular hearing? just yourself? ok. we will close public comment on item 13. i am glad to hear the resolution >> supervisor safai: thank you for coming out today. we did get a call. part of our intent of bringing this item forward west to shine light on some of the conversation and ask the parties to, essentially, get in the room and work harder. we are really happy to hear that

over 600 drivers have a wage increase of five% in the first year and four% in years two and three. this is a wonderful collaboration between the teamsters and organizations. we are happy that this resolution has come forward. congratulations to the men and women who are driving these trucks and the companies who negotiated you negotiated for a fair living wage. congratulations. >> supervisor tang: thank you, supervisor safai and everyone who worked to make this good resolution. with that -- >> supervisor safai: can we get a motion to file? >> supervisor tang: we will do that without objection. all right. ok. we will start 12. one of the cosponsors is here. supervisor supervisor fewer, welcome. we are waiting for supervisor peskin to get here. we will call item 12 now. >> hello. thank you, colleagues. i am a cosponsor and supervisor aaron peskin is the main sponsor

of this resolution that supports proposition ten, the affordable housing act. i think that since 1979, when rent control was first passed, we have had a rent control policy in place and at the state level does not allow us to actually even have the discussion about how we may amend the rent control laws or just re-examine them. so this is just a resolution in support of the state proposition that is going to be in the november ballot. though it does give jurisdiction the ability to discuss rent control and how they are affecting the communities and also to revise it if we so deem. again, the passing of proposition ten doesn't automatically change anything. it just gives the cities and jurisdictions an opportunity to actually design rental measures that actually fit their own

communities. so i would like to start off with -- hold on one second, please. i would like to start off this hearing by hearing public comments. let us open this up for public comment, please. anyone who would like to speak on this item, item 12, around the support for proposition ten, affordable housing act, please come up or submit a speaker card everyone has two minutes to speak. >> supervisor tang: public comment is open. please line on up. thank you. first speaker may come up to the podium. >> i strongly encourage you to pass this forward to the board. san francisco is a pro-

rent-controlled safety and we need to have all the tools at our disposal to keep the current residence here. thank you. >> thank you. neck speaker, please -- next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is george and i'm the president of the coalition for san francisco neighbourhoods. we support the repeal of costa hawkins rental housing act. also a majority of the board of supervisors supports the repeal of the costa hawkins act. the resolution is boarding the california state proposition number 10 of the affordable housing act, on november 6th, 2018 ballot. and reaffirming the city and county in support or repeal of

the costa hawkins rental housing act. acute parliamentarian trick to take this from the board and place it in the land use committee will not stop the board from endorsing this resolution before the election. the repeal of costa hawkins will pass on the november 6th election. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> afternoon, supervisors. lorraine petty here. i'm a member of and disability action. i am here to urge the board to support proposition ten to repeal costa hawkins. i think, for 23 years, costa hawkins has failed to tenants and it has failed the homeowners as well. it has given the green light to rental abuses and excesses. it has taken away our rights to correct them.

we know what is going on. runaway rent increases, costa hawkins has made them legal. mass displacement homelessness, evictions, speculation, costa hawkins as the enabler for all of these. and then it denies us the tools to address them. property owners are guaranteed the right to fair and reasonable profits. renters deserve fair and reasonable housing. without costa hawkins, we can strike a fair and reasonable balance. we are an innovative, creative and collaborative city. we can do a whole lot better than the people in sacramento who don't know and scent don't have our interests at heart. the sooner proposition ten is passed, the sooner we can all get together and work on solutions. thanks.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i am a district eight resident. i am appealing to you, supervisors, right now, by supporting a repeal of costa hawkins. today he would indicate that you recognize the fact that you have , along with your fellow supervisors, the ability to work together for the benefit of homeowners and renters for a good outcome. i know some of you are concerned about your constituents who are homeowners. this will not affect them because you have the power to put in place, write laws and write legislation, to help them. as well as renters who are being displaced in record numbers. i want you to be empowered to create legislation.

so repealing costa hawkins would enable you to do so. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. first of all, my thanks to supervisor fewer for sponsoring this measure. i really appreciate if the land use committee would also get behind it. this is really important for a city that is populated by tenants at the right of 65%. we want to do good for the majority. this city is different, especially in terms of the makeup of the tenants versus homeowners. i am not a tenant but i believe that we have to take measures to protect our tenants and make sure that they will stay in their homes and not get displaced. repealing costa hawkins is the right thing to do. we do need to have policies that will address the majority of the

city of san francisco. if 35% of the city is made up of homeowners, that doesn't mean that 35% our rental property owners. we have a very small percentage of our residents that are rental property owners. why should we succumb to their will agree i do not believe that repealing costa hawkins will actually bring about horrible consequences for such landlords. again, i am here to urge you to pass a resolution to support proposition ten. thank you. >> my name is peter and i am a member of indivisible front san francisco. we support proposition ten and we want the board of supervisors to support proposition ten. an overwhelming majority of homeless people in san francisco were previously house in san francisco. they lost their home due to

rising exorbitant rents. addressing the lack of affordable housing in san francisco will go a long way to mitigating the homelessness crisis. the yes on ten campaign is already being outspent 10-went by deep pocket component -- opponents. an endorsement would be a great help. assets are to be mentioned, that measure in and of itself would not instill rent control. it would give cities and counties, like san francisco, the power to enact affordability measures for the constituents should you choose to do so. i hope you will. thank you. >> good afternoon. jordan davis. i am an organizer but i know it is right. i wanted to give a special thank you to supervisors came and fewer for -- for supporting tenants and a lot of bootleggers to the rest. the board unanimously, supported a resolution to repeal costa hawkins and yet mod squatters

flip-flopped on the important matter. as a member of the dwindling trans and queer community, we need to be able to have real rent control because contrary to media representation, we are not all a bunch of wealthy condo dwellers who wear expensive designer clothing. not only that, one of the most prolific organizers for landlords and against tenants rights as a horrible cretin. a deplorable who says transgender children rape little girls and says racist things about other black and brown students. which side are you on? are you for the renters or are you flip-flopping for and enabling racist? it is sad we all have to be here today when this could have been handled by the full board. thank you. [applause] >> hello, i am maria and i am from indivisible san francisco. as peter said, we support proposition ten and we want the board to do the same. we are facing not just the

housing crisis or an a for -- but just not just the housing crisis, but also an affordable housing crisis. >> good afternoon. my name is kathy lipscomb. i work with seniors and disability action as well as other groups. please, on behalf of the 62% tenant majority in san francisco , votes to recommend yes on repeal of costa hawkins. on behalf of those in shelters are on the streets, vote to repeal costa hawkins which gives landlords disproportionate power over renters' lives. please vote yes on behalf of those thousands of tenants already evicted you are forced out to oakland and elsewhere where they unwittingly got other tenants evicted and displaced in a domino effect. listen to us today. please grab this historic moment and helped tenants throughout the state. thank you.

>> tony, senior disability action and a district five resident. we don't have time to play games to commit and then not commit to sending a clear and strong message to real estate speculators, because this is primarily who this fight is geared or focused on. the big corporate landlords that are making much money on the backs of san francisco residents and residents throughout california. one of the previous speakers said that many people that our house -- homeless ones had homes , but because of the affordability crisis, it is priced out and we see dire consequences that have happened to people on the streets. people have died and ended up with no shelter. it is a complete disgrace. the repeal of costa hawkins will allow cities and allow local

municipalities to enact rent control appropriate to their area. san francisco has to send a message. there has been so much fallout and so many people have suffered because of the costa hawkins law that was a deliberate law we need to send a message enough is enough. thank you, very much. >> good afternoon. i'm a resident of the sunnydale community. we are in the remodelling revitalization. i fall under prop ten and pop sea because i need to make sure my ranch will be affordable and i don't get kicked out at the same time but i am trying to keep housing for my kids in san francisco. proposition c. is for the

protection and homeless of the -- protection for homeless to get out of the streets. this is patricia. she requires housing and she got placed out of the city. now her kids are still here but she does not live in san francisco. >> my name is patricia -- spee m.u.n. are you done with your two minutes -- >> supervisor tang: are you done with your two minutes? because i would have to start the two minutes for you. if you are done, i could reset the clock for the next person. >> ok, -- >> supervisor tang: you have one minute and ten seconds left. >> i think they want to restart the clock for the next speaker. >> my name is patricia alonso. i work with the coalition. i got placed out of san francisco and my children go to school each year. i work here and i don't think it is right that they had to displace me somewhere else because they had no housing for me. i had a voucher for subsidy and

i still got replaced somewhere else. i mean, i vote for proposition c. >> hello, my name is sophia. i work with the coalition and i also work at a dolores street shelter. i have a voucher in the city and i can't find any affordable housing. i don't want to be displaced by patricia in oakland because i work down here and my kids go to school out here. and i think we should say yes on proposition c. they are giving me only 30 days. and my 30 days will be ending on the first. >> supervisor tang: if you don't mind, speaking directly into the mic. >> my 30 days will be ending on the first so i need to find some type of housing or i will be homeless again. like i have been. it is hard.

thank you. >> hi. good afternoon. i work in the coalition on homelessness. i come today to support proposition ten. it really is one of the great opportunities that the board of supervisors can support in. to stopping the displacement. to stopping the evictions. so we have 700 -- 7,000 homeless people in the streets without housing. we have 13 hundred beds -- 1300 beds in the city of san francisco. we imagine how many we are putting in one bed in the shelter. it is ridiculous.

you guys need to support proposition ten. i want you to no kak we are working on proposition c. and i want you to support proposition c. too. proposition c., they want to generate almost $300 million for housing, to place 4,000 people and preventing homelessness. please support proposition c. it is the only way we can stop the evictions. thank you, very much. have a great day. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. i am a tenant. i have been a resident in the city for 48 years. i started my action with the hotel back in the days. we need to pass this proposition ten because the industry bribed

our politicians in sacramento while i was sleeping and pass this legislation. we need to overturn this and give power back to the people. we are 18 million renters in california. we should never be defeated. we need your support. >> good afternoon. i am with senior and disability action and north beach tenants committee. many of my neighbours in north beach, who happened to be homeowners, who happened to be landlords, are telling me that they are suffering because our community is being destroyed. people are being evicted. people are being forced out because the rents have been much too high for much too long. for our communities, for homeowners, for also, though small property owners who really want their communities back, just as we as mentors want our

communities back, you have a choice to support this proposition. to support it because you care about the many san franciscans that are currently suffering. under this very speculative, economic. i urge you, each of you who has not been quite certain, as to whether this would hurt or help your constituents, if you are homeowners, this isn't going to touch you. if you are homeowners, this could help you remain with a community that is there to support you through raising your children, through aging in place , and dying in your city. so please support proposition ten today. thank you. >> hi. my name is becky. i am with just cause, as you all

should no kak we have a tenant rights clinic and we are seeing multiple tenants that are being harassed and not having repairs done. all these different issues. and because their landlords know they can raise the rents if they kick people out. we have plenty of people with costa hawkins rent increases and we have one multimember family who is living in one place to gather and they live in single family homes but they are not covered by rent control. they are paying $5,000 a month in rent. they are scraping everything together and deciding about what their kids are able to get and what food they can habit based on the exorbitant rent. there is another family who has come to us, multiple times. there was a fire in their units. the landlord tried to not let them return. they have been trying to reach out to the landlord and they

only were able to find out that their unit was listed on a renting website. they contact at the landlord and let them know they saw that and were able to move back and. he tried to give them a costa hawkins rent increase and they were able to negotiate it down but now they have one again starting october 1st. if they have to pay, they can't afford it. they will have to -- they will become evicted. there is a six month old baby and one of their -- it is a mother and a grandmother and their children. if they get evicted, one of their sons will have to drop out of college in order to help move back and help support the family these are real-life consequences and we want to repeal so we can have local control and decide what needs to happen to vote yes on this. thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i i'm a retired high school teacher and a former member of united educators at san francisco executive board. i am here representing the 6200 teacher and para- educators working in our school. 500 teachers left the district. of the year before, similar numbers. we know there is a crisis we -- san francisco is desperately trying to recruit enough people so that we have a credential classroom teacher in every classroom. that is becoming more and more difficult because of exorbitant cost of housing in san francisco we have gone from a city, when i first moved here and 71 as a working-class city, to a city of have and have-nots.

trickle down housing will allow teachers and students and families to afford to live here, it was badly mistaken. we need government to step up and provide security, housing security for working-class and middle-class san franciscans. it remains to be said that we have, at least 2500 homeless students in san francisco. most people who are on the streets are living in the city. many of them were tenants. please support prop ten. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is alex. i was here for an unrelated matter. i am a san francisco resident and a small property owner. i own a two unit building where i live with my family and we rent out a ute lower unit studio i wanted to say, -- we rent out

a lower unit studio. we support prop ten and we support proposition c. it is important to protect the most vulnerable proposition -- of vulnerable populations. rent control has been absolutely not a problem for us as small landlords, because for the very simple fact that when we enter into a rental agreement with someone, the numbers of work. just because the market happens to go up a few hundred dollars or a few dollars per square foot in the intervening years, does not change the underlying economics that led us to reach the place that we did. i have kids in the san francisco public school zone. and what he was saying was right on. my son tells me about his homeless fears at the middle school. we have seen teachers and families leave because of the housing situation. we really need to do something and this is that something that we need to do.

thank you. [applause] >> good evening, supervisors and audience. my name is ace. better known as ace on the case. i want to speak on the next item but since you were talking about the homeless, i thought i would be remiss if i did not speak. number 1, 1st of all everyone gets their titles. i am also executive director of a new organization coming out called case, community assistance service enterprise. i have been through the whole ringer from the middle class, down to the homeless. and even to your medical facility where had to have surgery on my head. i am a living witness about the homeless. but also, i stand before you as a black man dealing with issues on homeless where our community has been driven out of the city of gentrification, but i want to

say this, in closing, i am here on the case. i will be coming back to city hall and the pressroom. i will be covering these issues where our conservative press don't even get a chance to tell you about it. i will be on the grounds and talking about these issues from a to z-letter. i have 48 seconds. when you look at me, i am homeless. whether you believe it or not. i had to go through the shelters , the s.r.o. and then i had surgery so i am in a special housing but i am looking for housing myself. my entire family are well-to-do but they live all across the bay all of my family. i'm the only one here of my immediate family. i am 64 years old and i don't look it but i am 64. i am a senior. but i am here to tell the city and county about the bay, which i call city hall. i call it silly hall. but i think they will change it

back to city hall. i am from the fillmore. they call it the fill no more because we don't have anything. we can't talk about housing and none of that. >> hello. my name -- my name is sarah. i'm with the housing rights committee. this shouldn't be something that has had proposition ten. it only lets the city pass local law. all it is doing is giving you all permission to debate whether you have a better rent control law or a stronger one. it does nothing to mandate anything. in san francisco, this is a clear case of you are either for rent control or you aren't. you can't pretend to be for tenants and against evictions and not vote for this. we know katy tang, you have

never been for tenants and always been in the pocket of developers. but for the rest of the supervisors, including supervisor safai, apologies. safai. that this is a clear case. if you believe in rent control, you need to vote for this. because in this city, whether you live in the marina, the excelsior, the bay view or the sunset, we have a rent crisis. you aren't for rent control. if you don't value -- vote for our ability as a city of san francisco to have that rent control we need to stop the rents from going up. i want to tell you the story of my friend keith. he has been in his unit for 20 years and he moved in with his girlfriend six months after she moved there. she just died. his landlord doubled his rent.

he is moving out of his apartment. every senior has a target on their back because of the costa hawkins. vote yes if you believe in rent control, otherwise, you are making a very clear line that you don't stand for tenants and you do not stand for rent control. at there's only two sides on this. -- there's only two sides on this. >> all that was good. my name is leo. i may bay view hunter's point person. rent control. well, it seems like these people that own these places have a hammer over somebody's head and they will let that hammer go anytime they want. that is not right. that's no control. that is a control issue. it is not fair. i remember when i was about 14

years old and my grandmother was living at this place for many years. 30-50 years. all of a sudden, her rent went up and she can't pay rent to know more. her husband had already passed away. she had to move. it was a hurt feeling after a person who had been there 40 or 50 years of their life. i will just say that we need rent control. >> the female speaker was right. katy tang, you too, all of you. there is only one of you who is on for support for the most vulnerable people. low income and very low income that people have in housing. the only ones out there who have demonstrated and backing that is -- all of you, you have a press

conference and try to price fix and brainwash the community and claim that the new low income is $125,000 a year. and you have the nerve to talk about your board of supervisors. you are bigots. discriminating against low income bracket people. you have a housing opportunity at mission rock where says 15%, build 1,500 apartment complexes for low income bracket people and you deliberately priced fixed and made the lowest income at a range higher than the low income bracket and very low income bracket. people can't afford it. that is fraud. that means 225 of those apartments is supposed to be for low income bracket people. used a hispanic female and her child as a pitch person on the commercial four years to make it appear that she could afford to live in that mission rock apartment building complex when

you know god damn well her income is not high enough to afford to live in that and her teacher too. you always make housing binds for people in high income brackets. all of you. especially you, tang. it is for people who is making $125,000 a year or more and you are talking about it is affordable housing for low income bracket people. you are a damn liar. i moved to have you incorporate this and it is a matter of time before you end up at court. >> i understand. >> you are a god damn big it. -- you are a god damn bigot. >> thank you. i want to give the next speaker a chance to speak. thank you. excuse me, sorry.

all right. thank you. next speaker, please. thank you for your patience. >> thank you, supervisors. i'm from the san francisco tenant union. supervisor safai has left but i hope you listens to my comments. at the tenant's union every week , we see people who come in his mother, his father, whose husband or wife has died or is dying. and they ask, will i be able to stay equally we have to tell them no. we have to tell them, because of costa hawkins, you're out of luck and you are going to be pushed out of your place because the landlord will raise the rent to any amounts they want without any restriction. passing prop ten and supporting prop ten as supervisors in the city is the single biggest thing that you can do to help with the crisis. it is the single biggest thing you can do for low income people , for homeless people, for middle income people, for

teachers, for workers, it is a single biggest thing you can do to help support san francisco in this moment. we have to ask you and you have to ask yourselves, which side are you on? are you on the side of renters? or are you on the side of the low and middle income people? are you on the side of labour? are you on the side of the california democratic party or are you on the side of wall street and the one% and the real estate dollars? because that is what this conversation is about. that is what prop ten is about. thank you so much, supervisor viewer for your support as a small landlord, for showing that small landlords can support prop ten. thank you so much to the gentleman who spoke earlier for saying that you are doing fine right now and that we can support renters in this moment rather than just supporting -- rather than only carrying about how much profit you can make.

this prophetess profits -- pop processes about how you can support san francisco and the ability to pass the laws we need the ability to update our current conditions. versus the housing rules and regulations being controlled by an industry that only cares about profit and the big players in that industry. small landlords supposed us and homeowners support us and this is a city at 62% renters and for every renter in the city, please , please, support prop ten and vote yes on this resolution. [applause] >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with the council of community housing organizations. myself and a few others came from a press conference for united for housing justice. a new coalition bringing together labor, community, faith , tenants, around a united

platform for housing. i want to begin by commending each of you for the work that you have done for producing more housing in san francisco. the work that supervisor peskin and supervisor kim have done around inclusionary housing. the work that supervisor tang has done around a density bonus on the conversations we are having with supervisor safai around educator housing. the meetings that we have had with supervisor fewer around bringing new housing into her district. but part of where we start with united for housing justice is that we need to begin by protecting tenants. by preserving the communities that we have right now and moving on to producing more for housing free future generations. that means, for many of us, for all of you, i would hope, supporting proposition ten, supporting the ability of cities to pass their own and not

allowing the real estate lobby to handcuff all of us and to keep us from having real rent control. because i know that all of you believe that housing is important. we need to begin by protecting tenants whenever, wherever, at all times so they can remain in their homes. i hope you will support the resolution. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am here to reiterate something you have probably already have heard and already know. but the largest labor organization in california that really guides us through our estate recommendations, the california federation of labor. voted overwhelmingly to support prop ten. they are the ones, the guide, the general labor council and the labor movement in the city. the reason why they did, reason they did it is they believe in local control over this issue.

this issue can be contentious, at almost every community. every community has different needs and different asks. this will allow every county to make the decision that works best for them. so the idea is we have whatever we want to do in san francisco, we hash it out and fight it out, and then we can make our own recommendations for our own residence. i just urge you -- residents. i just urge you that we want to take control of our own lives. let's let the counties decide, individually, what they can do. that is what the state and federation of labor is recommending and that is what we are recommending. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to comment on this item public comment is closed. we are also joined by supervisor peskin. author of this resolution. >> thank you. i apologize for not being here earlier but did not think this would come up until 3:00.

i will keep my remarks brief because i can see that you have engaged in a lot of discussion and we talked about it at the full board where it appeared to times and there has been public comment here today. i do want to highlight a couple of recent developments in the discussion around this topic. and chief among them, being the u.c. berkeley institute report released just last week. i wanted to read the executive summary because i think it's professionally summarizes why we are taking this matter up to date and by the voters are taking it up in november. so i will read this into the record. california is at a tipping point both the government and private market are failing to meet the needs of the vast majority of the 17 and a half million renters. skyrocketing -- skyrocketing rents and eviction an ongoing displacement are all part of a

broader crisis of widening inequality -- inequality that is testing our values and identity as a state. the consequences are far-reaching. people are being pushed out of their communities, into homelessness and away from jobs and opportunity. as a state, we face health, environmental, economic and societal costs that can last generations. the extent of these long-term harms will determine -- will be determined in part by how we respond today. this moment requires local governments have the ability to enact immediate solutions to protect tenants from unfair rent increases, as well as wholesale evictions. the report goes on to detail the several unique and essential benefits that rent control provides and in particular, in our current housing challenges. the report finds that rent control is cost effective policy with immediate effects and refutes the argument the rent control has negative impacts on housing development and is not

supported by research and easily mitigated by other policy and investment mechanisms. in contrast, long-term strategy to address the housing crisis, rent control is a critical strategy which allows us to stop the bleeding and the communities so that we can create a space to strategize as we have done in inclusionary housing and other policy matters. so i really hope that we will pass this and send it to the board. i think this board, in my experience, and i can say that having served on a number of different boards. , will grapple the costa hawkins no longer exists. with them i nisha of the policy that is before us that supervisor kim -- with them i nisha -- us to new construction, there should be a rolling effective date.

i actually went to the san francisco chronicle with a professor who was extolling the virtues of getting rid of costa hawkins that shared the policy point of view with supervisor kim. but we will grapple with that when the voters repeal costa hawkins and passed proposition ten. we show during the inclusionary housing debates that we can find that sweet spot and i think we can do that here at the san francisco board of supervisors. did someone just go out that window? is that what i just saw? deputy? >> wind. [please stand by]

>> supervisor fewer: and we need police officers and firefighters, and we need superintendents of schools. and the reason i mention that is because our old past superintendent renting a single-family home for $4,000 a month, in one month, his rent was raised to $7,000 a month. this is what we're talking about. i know that small property owners are different than large corporate apartment owners,

examine i and i am sensitive to that. but all this does is allow us to come together and look for solutions around our housing affordability crisis but also balance it between small property owners and large apartment owners or corporations. i think it is time that san francisco actually had the ability to do so. when i see in my own district that i have seniors who are 88 years old being evicted, they can't keep up with this market of rent, i -- i feel for them. they have lived all their lives in the richmond district. what is your answer to them? so i just urge my colleagues on this board to look at what's happening around you in san francisco. it's to tie our hands, to even have the simple civil conversation and discussion that is so long overdue about

how we can make this city once again a viable city for everyone and our moderate wage earners such as our teachers and our police officers and our social workers, and even the people here who are clerks at city hall, the people who work for city departments, they are all also suffering under our inability to actually address this issue. i hope this can simply get out of committee so at the full board, we can have a discussion. and when this passes in the state of california, we can come together, all of us come together and have a real discussion about what is equitable and how property owners can get a fair return on their investment while also serving the people of san

francisco that are so severely needed in order to run this city. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you, supervisor fewer. supervisor kim? >> supervisor kim: i just want to thank all the community members for coming out, but more importantly, all the organization workers that are helping to put proposition 10 on the ballot. this is something that we've been talking about for decades, the repeal of costa hawkins, and to get this on the ballot was incredibly blessed and work for such a long time. the work will be, of course, outside of the city and county of san francisco and making sure that we can convince voters that in this housing crisis, that what we are really seeing it an affordability crisis. when my middle-income friends who are attorneys have to live in hercules and commute all the way to san francisco, i just

feel we have no hope for so many of our residents that make less. and increasingly as housing prices go out of hand in the bay area, the most critical question in front of us is who gets to live here, and in many cases, who gets to work here? more than a building crisis, i really believe we have an affordable crisis. we can build as much market rate and middle-income housing. a home is something that is critical to our safety and our well-being, and there's no way for us to pursue economic gains, to pursue really our life, the safety of our families, if we don't have a safe place to live, and it's an industry that should be regulated, it should be a redifferent type of industry, and those that -- very

different type of industry, and those that live here should understand this is a very different limited profit in this world because of how we house people. this is just a repeal of costa hawkins. it does not set new repeal laws, but it would give san francisco the opportunity to debate those issues. for those that fear what the board of supervisors may implement, i think you need to look at our history over the last couple of decades to see that this board moves slowly, we really debate issues. there's a lot of negotiating, that we listen to all stakeholders, and we certainly don't want a structure of laws that are untenable for everybody, including our small property owners and landlords who provide this type of housing. i do want to remind this board that we unanimously passed a resolution in support of asse