criminalizing enforcement issues on the transit an and those goig across town to the northwest section of san francisco. we believe the needs of black youth are strengthened. i will talk in the next minute or so. we found the system for obtaining the cards is inequitable leading to true and see and harassment. the clipper card is easy to fill out. it asks for nothing but verification of age and signature. it is still difficult to access assuming they know about it. particularly for the newcomer families they don't know this the an option. it takes weeks for the cards to be approved and mailed to their

addresses. they have to choose to not go to school or risk getting ticketed by sfmta. i get calls stating families are worried about free clipper and public charge. caregivers keep little ones home because they have no bus fare for school. if you don't have bus fare you can get a ticketed. undocumented families are afraid they are on a list when they hand over their passports to sfmta. i have heard about sfmta officials. while i am sure it is rare but it happened. asking for immigration paperwork and searching back pats. some encourage people to carry red cards to school to give it to officials. it is traditionally for ice agents. i have suggestions.

to get the clipper cardses that we distribute and hand the paperwork over for approval. for the sfmta officials not to be able to question without a caregiver. caregivers get passes when transporting young people. make muni free-for-all. thank you. >> james johnson. >> i am james johns sana regular guy. i have a quick story. i will start with and i have a video of something that is horrible i was assaulted by a muni bus driver multiple times. i was coming from my drug program which was requirement for me. under insurance if you had any

prior substance abuse and you need something orthopedic or serious surgery you have to do a vetting process, a drug program and stay clean and sober six months or a year. i had to do a year. i was coming from the drug program would not be allowed to get on the bus. the bus driver pulled in front of two poles. she seen me coming out of the building i am rolling up. you have to catch up with the bus there is no place to stop. when i said can i get on? she would have to power down and let the ramp down she said, no, you can't. >> a week later at 1:30 p.m. she

zook off. i called three one one. i field with the 311 process. it has to be flawed. i called, told them i was just assaulted by a bus driver. the bus driver took off and did not wait for a supervisor. i have four instances where i called and i have the reports right here. >> same bus line and same everything, then this happens. >> it is only 47 seconds. >> can i ride the bus, ma'am? i am handicapped. >> that is assault, ma'am,

ma'am, that is an assault. i am not moving my arms to take this bus out of commission. >> so anyway now this is a video prior to it so you know it wasn't phony. it has been happening. >> the bus will be coming at 1:30 p.m. the driver will allow me on the bus and i will have to report it. >> i am asking you a question. i am handicapped, you have no reason to deny me. are you going to allow me on the bus, ma'am? i am handicapped. i need to go home. can i get on the bus, yes or no? can i get on the bus, ma'am?

>> you have handicapped seats available. yes or no? can i get on the bus, ma'am? [ inaudible ] >> this went on for another minute. she did not allow me on the bus. she had to take it out of service because she closed it on my arm. this is all of those people they got off the bus and i was spat upon by three people. she heard the people in the back gettingetting royaled up. she said get your bus out of the way and spat on me. i waited. i filed a report. i have seen her since. that is what they did and that

is what happened to me. i would say the 311 does not work. they should have immediately contacted me. i was assaulted. the door was closed on my arm. i did file charges on this officer. i have that report, too. >> i am not sure if you shared them. >> everybody has got them. >> thank you. i have lisa lynn cost. >> thank you, commissioners. i am a san francisco resident and daily municipal neap rider. during the day i ran b magic. we serve the community of bayview hunters point. i am not a transportation

expert. we worked on two occasions with the two transportation authorities in san francisco. that is the sfmta on a project that was an 18 month project and most recently with the bayview community-based transportation project. specifically, the participator rebudget process recently. >> that being shade, bayview has five main lines 19, 54 and 29 and t line. for the four bus lines bayview happens to be the end of the line for those four bus lines. as up mentioned, commissioner sweet when you are at the end of the line most lightly it is not on time. we experience that a lot on the bayview particularly on the 19,

54 and t29. also was mentioned similar to the hill it is photography issues which creates isolated community. the shuttle program was targets seniors and young people. as well as unreliability of muni on the evenings starting as early as 43. if i need to come downtown to get here by 530 i have to leave before 430. you have to wait half an hour to 45 minutes. this happens on most of the bus lines. the project we are involved with is infrastructure.

we the house community meetings throughout the last fiscal year about the service issues. unfortunately, the part we were part of did not address the service issues, it was not part of the grant for that yo budget. some solutions more bus shelters to have the arrival times for muni. also, at the very least improving service, not having people wait 45 minutes to half hour. you might have to wait five or 10 minutes. if they were on time they wouldn't need the waits because they would follow the schedule that is provided. thank you very much. >> robin crop.

>> if you want to leave your recommendations, we can take them directly. certainly, we do want to get that information to the right place. thank you. go ahead. restart the clock, please. >> san francisco resident and now with save muni. i want to talk about two issues tonight. first is julie's discussion of drivings. i want to say i had a driver on the bus who told us he had no break for 8 hours. the bus wanted to bring food. he says i am on camera i can't eat. >> i spoke with someone and he said wrong the driver could have taken a break to get food. i want to ask julie. i want to know if the drivers are getting communication about

rights that they could take a brace. the whole bus was concerned he was heavy. they are not getting bathroom breaks and not enough time to eat food. are the labor laws being nolled or if this is a deterrent. i know you were concerned about having enough drivers for your force. thank you for your report. >> i want to do my other feedback. for my second issue, i am a disabled person using paratransit and mini rail. some of us do use the muni also. it has not been accessible to me because i can't ride on the bench.

i can't ride half of the buses there is no forward faces seat in the boarding area. there is no accessible seat for me. i would like a representtro fitting of all is the buses so we have a shirt for them. second we are looking at railcar design for the next 30 years. it is important to have enough seats for the disabilities or the plans as they stand with only a couple of seats planned for the next 50 cars. they are going to eliminate us and injury us because i can a survey of 100 people last fall and 400 last month in muni station and i heard a lot of disabilities.

these folks are going side ways. many are comfortable. i heard about 30 reasons from disabled people why they need the forward seat. >> this is a very important issue about access for our city. i would like your help. they all need to approach the city together. >> edward right. >> i want to thank the members of the public here today and sharing their insights and thoughts on this issue. i am primarily here to listen. i wasn't planning on speaking. i did want to share our thinking on this. for transportation we are

thrilled to see this discussion with this commission and i would like to thank the commission for doing that. it is not a public good. it is also a human right. we see that in our district. our constituents are diverse. we have the highest portion of seniors and schools in the city in our district. we know that we have the largest section of above ground light rail service in our dippings triact that experiences the highest number of switch backs of any line in the system. to shed light on this, the number one topic we hear about from constituents is muni. that is because people rely on

pit. that is how they get to their jobs and access their livelihoods. when we talk about equity, reliability and service, it is important to keep in context what that means to people. it is the difference to making it to work on time. it is sometimes the difference between deeping your job or not. it is really does make a difference in people's lives. i wanted to share be that with you and i want to highlight a topic brought up by cat carter of did he havof the effort to ae support. supervisor mar is a father. he has a 13 year-old daughter. she tried to take the 29 to

school but after repeated attempts to get on the bus she found out it was too crowded every time she tries. thank you. >> edna james and michael perkins. if you want to speak, we have another card. that is great. owe are near the end of the car. >> i am president of my community action organization. i am a nurse at the community center. i wrote this in may of 2014. to the transportation. it hasn't changed. i want to say that the young man

who witnessed leaving him at the sign. they did this to another handicapped individual. i was sitting in my car and he had gotten up on the ramp at arch and randolph street. he was turned this way not in front of the car. the bus man just speeded across him and left him there. it was cold and everything. i felt so bad for that senior who was in the wheelchair that he had to it is up there for the next 15 minutes. i said in my car until the next bus came. she moved so fast and i made a complaint. they don't respond. you call 311 and get a message, a voice message.

we looked at the message and blaugh blaugh blaugh and that is it. this is a complaint i really made on behalf of this mantanting there. the other thing we had a problem going under ground with the m train and eliminating the symptom for an overhead bridge. don't think about it. we have to fight that. the small houses around there was not built to go to the foundation. you would put a lot of homes would be shaken, you know, for that. it wasn't built for you to go undergrounds. we could not stand the vibration there. stop for the intersection at

beverly. when it comes across 19th avenue. you have the seniors tieing to come from the timber church were there. other bega school then they are coming for sergeant. it is three ways and that is the muni stop and that is not good. it provides sitting benches at lake view and mount vernon. this is not done. i am saying that is all i want to say. thank you very much. >> thank you.

>> i want to encourage ms. james to give her list to the transit director to give it to ms.kerish ball if you could do that, that would be great. i want to thank the members of the public for all of the community work and effort that you are doing. thank you. >> next is michael perkins. then we will take a break. i work with the community cent center. everybody has mitt most of my list i will cut this short. i do have some seniors that used to visit the center. basically they do not have the

transportation to get there. most of them live on the hit also. -- the hills. the buses can't get up the hills because of the steep grades on the streep. if it is possible maybe you want to look into purchasing paratransit type vehicles to clear the corners so those seniors living on the steam grades can make it on down to their appointments or anything eselse they may need to do. thank you for your time. >> thank you for being here tonight. the last cashed is david hooper. >> good evening. i serve as did president of the new mission terrace improvement association and on district 11

council with ms. jameses who is right 99% of the time. there was an extended outreach to bring the information to the community if district 11 and to talk about the transit equity. my immediate neighborhood does okay. it depends on the j, k, m. and the 49, 49 and what i see is district sheila. people mu don't have smartphones who are not in that world, who don't twit are knots included in any of this. it is apparent if supervisor moore can take his daughter to lowell because the 29 line is not working that is great.

that is the exception people have to take their children to school on public transit. we have has as many as we did 50 years ago. it is for people raised somewhere went away to college. they ride the schoolters, too uber and take lift. they have no experience at muni. their kids will not have a customer base. unless we do something and figure out a way to address the new apartments near the reservoy other side of the freeway. wwe will be raised. i work for the post office i

started working as an paymentter. i retired at central control. it is apparent that some things can be excluded when the huge metal down happened. these have dressable. when i started it took me what three months before i got full pay. that was a great contract. they got rid of had it expended to five years. it is difficult to get operators. you charge them $3 per day near the division, that is $700 each year out of their pocket. i think we can do better.

it is realizing some people are not connected to this vibrant economy. >> that is all the cards i have. we will not end the meeting as we usually do, however, i will note at this point there is a note that the next discussion of transit at the hrc meeting might be october 10th. i am thing. i think everyone for staying here and to the staff for staffing this. maybe we should have time for more robust discussion. as evidenced by the fact we have muni through the whole meeting. let's discuss that offline and do this in a way that is going

to yield th to improve equity in transit in san francisco. i know for some people they would look forward to join us on the tenth. i suspect it won't be a meeting focused on transit is. we will get back through the same channels when staff figures that out. >> i want to acknowledge and thank s.f.m.t.a. i appreciate that brittany and cathy. i want to thank kathy for her out reach and engagement. we will follow up to see what is

the best daytime for the next meeting. thank you all. >> thank you everyone. good night. slate, and as soon s

it comes back on, we cans soon s start. okay. good morning, everyone. we're going to start our september 23rd rules committee meeting. i am supervisor walton, and this is supervisor gordon mar. chair ronan will be here in a little while. so i'm going to go ahead and start the meeting. our clerk today is victor young, and i would like to thank jesse larsen and matthew from sfgov tv

for staffing this meeting. >> completed speaker cards and copies of any documents tob included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted on today will appear on the october 1st board of supervisors' agenda unless otherwise state. >> chairman: thank you. can we call item number one. >> item one is the ord nan and the administrative code to add a preference and city affordable housing projects for tenants temporarily evicted for rehabilitation work, to provide evidence of complying with the tenants' right to reoccupy such tenant rental units. >> chairman: thank you so much. i forgot to announce we have our guest, supervisor peskin, who is here to talk about the substantial amendments for item one. i'm going to pass this over to supervisor peskin. >> thank you, supervisor

walton. and i want to thank you for waiving the 30-day rule. this is a proposal to amendment the housing preference policy to accommodate tenants displaced by temporary capital improvement conditions, which is quite pronounced in areas of the city that have older rent control housing like the corner of the city i represent. san francisco's existing rent law a allows landlords to evict tenants temporarily in order to provide capital u78 improvements, and sometimes they are mandatory, and sometimes they're voluntary improvements that the landlord undertakes. i think many of us have heard about the phenomenon of remolding evictions, and in some cases, the gold plating, with capital improvements, that are not

just about safety and inhabitability, but are really aimed at driving out tenants. under the rent ordinance, these capital improvement temporary evictions are indeed intended to be temporary, and the tenant is entitled to return when the renovations are completed. and the law, as it exists, generally requires that the work should be completed in three months. but the law allows landlords to extend that period without limit. for example, one project you'll hear about in district 3 threatens to displace four long-term households, most of them seniors, for at least a year without any increase insistence or offer of replacement housing. and there are many such evictions pending city-wide, as well as in the northeast corner of the city, and as you'll see on his heat map i'll wave at us colleagues, there is a header map that is happening in the city, and they happen throughout the city, but are

concentrated in districts 3and 6, and there have been so far 400 of them since 2017. so given the challenges of finding housing for even those at the top of the income scale, for many working families and retired seniors, a temporary capital improvement eviction notice is a disaster and often leads to -- just the threat of them can force buyout situations. so the proposal that is for you would make tenants facing capital improvement evictions eligible for inclusion in a new tiers for displaced tenants. with this reform, tenants receiving capital eviction notices can apply for affordable housing without having to wait years for a unit. i think the support would not require any additional subsidy because the tenants could utilize the relocation assistance to cover increased rental costs. and eligibility would be

temporary because when the renovations at the original places are complete, the tenants would be required to go back to their original unit, and those units in existing affordable housing would be freed up. so we need to develop more comprehensive reforms to protect tenants from these abusive practices. in addition to the neighborhood, but the preference policy, i'm offering some amendments, which i distributed to you. first on page five, at line 24, in the eviction clause, at subsection 11 at the bottom of page five, you'll see the insertion of the words "that work would make the units hazardous, unhealth, and/or uninhabitable while work is in progress." on the next page, page six, this would cod fee codify existing policy at the rent board by the

insertion of the words "the landlord will only require the tenant to vacate the unit for a minimum time required to do the work." at page six, further down in subsection "a," i would ask the committee to consider adding the language, a subsection 3 there, and provide the tenant a form prepared by the rent board that the tenant can use to keep the rent board apprised of any future change in address. on the same page, subsection "c," and this is quite important language, is some direction to administrative law judges at the rent board to consider whether the landlord has delayed in seeking the extension the reasonableness of the landlord's time estimate, what work is reasonable and necessary to meet state or local requirements colonel safety or inhabitability, and whether any tenants have objected that the cost of securing

alternative housing would cause them a financial hardship, and other extraordinary circumstances. the board may grant or deny an application or may approve a shorter time based on the considerations of the facts of the case. so this is direction to the a.l. j. and finally, further down on page seven, there was language that i initially proposed that i am now proposing to strike with regard to the requirement that no certifcate of final completion be approved until the landlord has provided the tenant an offer to reoccupy the unit. and the reason for that is that many of the types of work that are done don't require a certificate of final completion, so that language need not be in there. so those are the amendments that i'd like to offer. i would like to thank a broad coalition of folks who have brought this to my office and contacted other members of the board

of su supervisors, ranging from the town community development is center to the san francisco tenants' union, the housing rights committee, and others who you will hear from during public comment. >> chairman: thank you. with that said, we will now open item one up to public comment. if you have public comment, please come and line up to my left, your right. and you have two minutes. >> good morning. shelby, housing rights staff attorney at the asian law caucus. the asian law caucus supports supervisor peskin's proposal for three reasons. >> first, it will support those cleent clients are particularly vulnerable to

evictions. when our clients receive temporary eviction notices, panic sets in. our clients have age and disability-related needs, as well as cultural needs, that create tremendous barriers to finding appropriate temporary housing. it is critical for our clients to remain in san francisco, and a preference will make it more likely they'll be able to find safe and affordable housing in the city. second, we support the preference because it is temporary. preferences will not solve the affordable housing shortage in san francisco. but the creation of a temporary preference that supports tenants while their lan landlords complete renovations, will increase the extension.

a landlord who seeks to displace an elderly tenant living on a fixed income should not be authorized carte blanche to spend an entire year doing work the that to tenant's unit in if means that tenant will be homeless for that year. we strongly support the amendment that would require the board to consider hardship when the renovations are not mandated by applicable law. i also have written assumptions that i will give to the clerk. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, i'm marilyn knight of north beach tenants committee co founder. we founded the committee because in 2013, there were 20 plus of us who were being evicted on one block. i urge you to support

supervisor's peskin's amount for the relocated tenants in the preferable ap affordable housing programme. there has been prolonged rehab projects that have forced tenants to relect relocae to other cities, far from their jobs, medical and social support and other support systems. this move is particularly hard on seniors and families with school-aged children. three blocks from my home, a six-unit building is set to undergo a major rehab project. many of the tenants are seniors. and this would mean a relocation of who knows how long because, though, technically it is three months, it can go on for a year or more. susupervisor peskin's legislations, making them part a performance of the

preparational affordable housing program gives them stability and allows them to stay in san francisco while their homes are being renovated. then to return to their communities, thus ensuring they did not become relocation refugees. the stress of relocation is great, even if it is one's choice to relocate. through supervisor peskin's amendment, we can make relocation less traumatic for our residents who have contributed so much to our city, our beautiful city, although very expensive city. thank you. [buzzer] >> chairman: thank you, ms. knight. >> hello. my name is hannah chum, and i'm a housing staff attorney at api legal out

reach. being displaced from your home temporarily is more than the issue that is being presented now. the way the ordinance is written, there are not enough protections or resources for tenants. for example, if a tenant is being displaced for 12 months, and the rent board is allowing these extensions without any room for additional location or resources for affordable housing, it makes it very difficult for tenants who have been living in the bay area, and in san francisco specifically, to be able to stay here. these tenants are being displaced from places they've called their homes for 20 or 30 years. and then they're expected to pack the majority of the their life in a matter of 60 days and somehow find a temporary place for potentially a year. we support this because this is temporary, and also it provides families, who have elders or individuals with disabilities, or tenants who are monolingual speakers, to have additional resources. in most cases, landlords

are including additional repairs that should have been done previously, but they wait until it is too late and then there is a violation of the building. this increases the supposed amount of time tenants are posed to be displaced. we support the amendment by supervisor peskin so tenants will not have to be displaced longer than they should be. thank you. [buzzer] >> good morning, supervisors. my name is rose beriessa, and i'm a navy san franciscan, and i've been a teacher for 20 years. i'm here to support my brother david, who has been living in a veritas apartment in the civic center for the past 23 years. he was given a temporary eviction, and he actually did ask for some assistance from veritas, and they moved into a temporary housing in the

tenderloin. he, at that time, went to the corporate offices and signed a good samaritan lease, which said after six months his rent could go up to market value. this doesn't work for him. and that is coming up in october. while extensions continue for work being done, which were capital improvements that needed to happen on this building. so this particular legislation is not only helpful to my brother, but to anyone else in a situation like this. he works part-time. he supports the arts in san francisco at playing piano, and needs to be in a central area, and he lives on a limited income. so something like this is so very helpful to support everyone in this situation. thank you for your time. and thank you, housing rights and the tenants' union. bye-bye. >> hi, good morning, supervisors. my name is pak ing.

and i'm here on behalf of my parents. my father is 92 years old, and my mom is 87 years old. they both have been living at 819 lombard street since 1979. they were earlier given this temporary eviction notice, earlier this year, to move out from their half of the building. and the rent board authorized the landlord a one-year period of time to fix all of the violations. however, they -- i mean, because the assistant housing program is so limited, they were not able to find anything else. and they contacted the assisting housing program of the city, and they told me that because they were temporarily evicted and not permanently evicted, they were not qualified

for the assistance housing program. i think this resolution is very useful for the situation like what my parents are in. because the rental market nowadays, they basically cannot find anything out there. their income, both, totaled, is less than $1600 a month? where can you find housing for that amount? [buzzer] >> i think this program will help. thank you so much. bye. >> good morning. my name is steven way. i live at 819 lombard street, apartment "a," and we the tenants who live in the building, were served temporary eviction papers so the landlord can do repairs on the building. the prospect of relocating, even if it is temporary, it is nothing, if not a near im pocket in

impossibility in my estimation. the reason i say that is because we're all on fixed income, and there is nowhere for us to go unless section "a" would be available. i'm not on section "a," and more than had of my income goes to rent, which they're trying to increase. it has been a hardship on myself and everyone because of the lack of repairs that were supposed to have been done, but now is delayed and now it is causing the situation where they have to do the work. i think that supervisor peskin's legislation would be very helpful to us, to everyone. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. >> hello. i'm the interpreter for mr. lim.[speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter]: good morning, i'm josh

lim. last year i had a stroke, and now i've become disabled. i'm 56 years old today. i rely on my $180 for retirement. i live on lombard street. since 1975, and it's now 44 years. my landlord turned my safe home into a different building and tried to evict us. i only have $900, and i can't afford to rent somewhere else.

and all the places we reached out to, said it is complicated for us and not convenient for us to live. and because we are poor, it is very hard for us to go to the tenant house, because we're so poor, we can't afford to buy somewhere else. we hope the government can pass this legislation to help tenants like us. and i also hope that the government not allows the landlord to do repairs for

a very long time. if it has to be 12 months, we have to be homeless, essentially on the street. i don't know what to say. thank you so much for your hearing. [end of translation] >> she just wants to show up and support the tenants. and she also lives in the building, sorry. [voice of interpreter]: and i don't know what to say. >> chairwoman: you can say whatever you want, but thank you so much for coming.[speaking foreign language] [voice of interpreter]: i hope that you can help us. thank you. >> chairwoman: and thank you so much for raising

such an incredible son. thank you. >> good morning, everyone.[spean language] [voice of interpreter]: my name is kim lu. i live at 825 lombard street. i lived there 21 years. i'm a senior. my landlord tried to temporarily evict us. and it is very inconvenient for me. the rent, outside is very expensive.

i hope this legislation will stop these temporary evictions. i hope you can help us. thank you very much.[speaking fn language] [voice of interpreter]: good morning, supervisors. my name is rita. today i'm here on behalf of c.t.a. "dear supervisors walton and mar, the tenant association fully supports supervisor peskin's proposal. they claim that the evictions are ti temporary, but the effects can be long-lasting. finding other housing is

often impossible for immigrants, families, and seniors on fixed incomes. the problem is made worse because too many landlords are improving buildings, only to attract the wealthy. we are losing too many friends and neighbors because of the evictions. susupervisor peskin's proposal will help provide temporary housing for seniors and families. we strongly support this proposal. the tenants' association. and for myself, i have seen cases that the landlord has been renovating for over two years, and it is now going on. and the tenants can't sign papers to leave because the rent is too high out there, and the tenants are literally living on the construction site. so i hope you can support supervisor peskin's proposal so we can make sure that tenants can have a safe place to stay and not get evicted because of the construction.

thank you." [end of translation] >> hello, my name is sarah, and i'm here from the housing rights committee. speculators and sleazy landlords are using renovations to terrorize and harass tenants in so many different ways. you all and other orgizationorganizations have mat hard to evict tenants, which is something you should celebrate, but some of these landlords are using these tactics while they fancy up a building so they can make a lot of money once they get tenants out. at the same time, they stretch out the work for a very, very long time. and if a landlord makes it too hard for a tenant, they think they're going to leave. and sometimes they do. and for seniors and for

other tenants with health issues, this can be deadly. i mean, how can you find a place that might be for three months, but might be for six, that might be for a year? how much stuff do you know you can take? where will you be? this is why housing rights committee -- this is an imperfect fix, but we're really happy, supervisor, that you took this on. this is really important. thank you. we really support this piece of legislation. >> chairwoman>> we've been concd for a while about temporary relocations being used as a tool for permanent displacement, and we've been in conversations with some of you for several years, trying to come up with ways to semifinal this problem. solve this problem. we strongly believe we

need more affordable housing, and not just a reprioritizing who gets it and who doesn't. we believe in this case a temporary preference sees this rent control union in the long run. when a tenant knows they can come back, it greatly removes the stress. and it removes the incentive for the landlord to day, to see whether or not -- and to test the waters of the tenant, if he was a good tenant, if he is able to make it back or not. and with that removal of uncertainty, the tenant -- this degeneratio legislation wod remove the fear that tenants have that is leading them to take buyouts before the renovations even happen. we've been calling these renovations evictions. it is one more way that

landlords can scare tenants into leaving. we're hoping with this legislation, as well as the amendment, to consider hardship when giving extensions of time to landlords to make these renovations, that we'll finally see a reduction in this kind of eviction. thank you. >> ken fujioka, from the adult center. thank you for this hearing, and thank you supervisor peskin for bringing it forward. i wanted to address three topics that thus far were made. perhaps emphasize them or perhaps that haven't been covered. i would want to emphasize that the city currently that has no safety net for tenants who are being displaced by these temporary evictions. many times -- and there are different forms of these displacements. some of them may be for

legitimate rehab and upgrade purposes. in fact, they may be advancing a public purpose, such as the seismic ordinance, or for that matter, some of the evictions are being motivated that owners will add a.d.u.s, and they're going to displace other tenants in order to support that project. the city is not owning the fact that those policies are actually displacing tenants. and there is no safety net for tenants, except for the mi minimal paultry elections. i know there are concerns about how do we make our affordable housing program pick up the slack? and speaking for the part of my organization that does affordable housing, we understand this is a challenge and i've talked to our staff, but we understand in order for us to address and mitigate some of these hardships, we need to step up to the plate. so we want to do everything we can to

address that issue. finally, i wanted to underscore this issue of the threat. because there have been 400 of these eviction notices served gins since january 2017. some are short, and some are long-term. and behind that are also fraudulent evictions that are not being actually filed with the rent board. they have landlord notices -- [buzzer] >> chairwoman: can you finish that thought and then i have a question for you. >> sure. it is a tactic of some landlord attorneys to issue an unfiled notice, claiming a temporary eviction, and i have a copy of a letter from a landlord saying we're going to evict you for nine months. you've already rejected a buyout. you have one week to accept a buyout, because we're doing capit