next speaker, please. >> leila substantitanley with francisco tenants union. we have passed some rules that offer some protection, though not near enough. we cannot allow those who knowingly submit deceptive applications to flaunt our laws and profit by condo conversion. it's very clear, when the sheriff appears at your door with a writ and subsequently removed all your possessions, that is indeed an eviction. and in this case, an eviction of a 100-year-old elder. supervisors, please defend our laws and let it be known that san francisco does not tolerate this abominable behavior. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. good evening, president breed and supervisors. my name is curtis bradford, and i am from the tenderloin development neighborhood corporation, and actually i wasn't even going to speak on this particular subject today, although i was well aware of it, but i decided that i really had to get up and at least say something, because clearly, this is cut and dry. for me, there's not really even a conversation. i know a l

there are numerous, very serious and very false allegations made by the san francisco tenants' union. in an e-mail to a long list of various city officials, it is stated that we are doing illegal short-term rentals. we are not. it was also stated that we are sending mail is for the purpose of posing ago primary residents. we aren't doing that, either. a lot of allegations have just been made and these are falsehoods based on conjecture. we've very much respect tenant rights, and the applicable laws. and we have not as was alleged, offered money to -- to evict tenants. the d.r. request also alleges that our project is clearly another rent eviction. again, this is complete conjecture not based on facts. we have never heard of rent evictions before this and weren't even aware of the three month -- our aim is to reduce temporary relocation as much as possible. we have hired a construction management consultant who has done constructions sequence analysis that is included in your packets, and he is also here to answer your questions, by taking appropriate steps, we can limit temporary relo

. >> jennifer fever with the san francisco tenants' union. we've contacted you several times to express our concerns for tenants. we are seeing their units being disturbed by decisions made by both of those departments. we're seeing permitted issued that are going to affect the tenants' ability to stay in place. we're seeing dbi inex-speaks that are failing to catch out conducted outside of scope of permits. we're told that violations of the rent ordinance are not your business and that if a tenant has a concern they can get a private attorney to address how they feel wronged. i just don't understand this attitude. we urge both departments to sit down with the at strif law judge of the rent board to learn the rent ordinance, to learn what just cause is. invite some tenant attorneys so you understand what the courts are saying. you cannot simply trust owners to do the right thing. they're using renovations as the latest eviction trick. tenants are umm canning and finding that their apartments have totally gutted and they have nowhere to move ba