as far as sros go, i want to do an overview about what they are. we learned little bit from joanna earlier. typically, an sro is an 8x10 size room with a sink. some are smaller; some larger. by and large they don't have any cooking facilities in the building. some do have them on one per floor, shared kitche. there are a few hotels that have individual bathrooms. the majority of them are shared on the floor down the hall. we have always i've been at the mission sro for over 5 years, always large percent are seniors. we began the conversation about two years ago and the conversation was about the changing needs of people. a lot of people here in san francisco -a lot of low-income tenants - get locked into their home. that can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing at the same time. a lot of people when they move in, to choose a home a place that meets their needs, as they live there for years, as people get older, the disabilities change, obviously they become more difficult for people to live in these buildings. the way that the market is here in sa

there are a lot of people in pills and drugs, and there are people in sro's going through breakdowns.ng me and caseworkers. even to the castro people. to stop hunger. we are in a good thing. rainbows. common save san francisco county. i am a patriot for marijuana and the rainbow. did you know that rainbow grows in a rain -- marijuana grows in a rainbow perspective before it turns green. it grows everywhere except antarctica, which is the bottom of the world. san francisco, you have done something great not only for california and the proposition, lgbt, straight, everyone. god will use this to stop hunker. so today, i am right here. collectives are for people you have no money, poor people cannot afford it. thank you. and i have to say to thank america's black madonna for america's black madonna for performing at the super bowl.

i have lived in sro's, i'm sad to say, for a little over 22 years and i could go back in time, there has been absolutely no change in the living conditions in sro's in 22 years and often times what i hear the reason why is code enforcement. there aren't enough people to go out and check the sro's because the number of sro's so work is delayed or again there just aren't enough inspectors. and that's unfortunate. the other thing is to -- code violation, if there is enough teeth in the violation to make it mandatory that the owners do the work like with grab bars, i'm not worried about the nonprofits, what i'm concerned with are the privately owned sro's. those are the people that charge three to four hundred dollars a week for living conditions that i wouldn't have a dog live in, yet human beings here in san francisco do. and it's appalling. and i would just urge each and every one of you it not look at photographs of sro's, private sro's, but to go to one or two and see exactly what we're talking about. it would be an eye-opening experience, believe me. thank you for your time, i reall

sros available that they will know about. also access the supporting services. and increase disaster planning for seniors and adults with disabilities. we had a set of long-term goals, but i won't go into much detail. here is what we think that we need something to make sure that seniors and people with disabilities and sros have what they need but are less clear on how to implement. those include the ability to form a tenant council, not attended by management so that people can speak freely. affordable housing for seniors and adults with disabilities, proposition c is a step in the direction. on-site staff that includes maintenance and janitorial the people are not waiting and trying to figure out who to talk to. individual locking mailboxes, so when someone gets a bill or a check they can get it safely. wellness check, or "i'm ok" door hangers. someone who want to participate, if a neighbor does not see that this is someone they can check on. there was a lot of information. now i will go into more detail on the legislation that we are proposing. in the recommendations, we suggested having grab bars in bathrooms. in the server we found that less than half of seniors and people w

in district two that if we will go exclude because to be vulnerable and so forth i would ask we consider that as well. >> we can try anything you like. to be clear, sros were never en included. the whole point is they are the master meter. we are only going after single occupancy or individual meters. apartments with multiple meters we are going after. sros, master meter, they weren't there. no problem with that. the database we use, the pg&e database, i don't believe it has age in it. >> we can work together on the individual ones, because that would be important. >> thank you. did you get an answer with regard to the rates on reserves? >> we assumed that it would be a couple cents more per kilowatts. so for tier one, if we absorb and have rate payers pay for the funds, it would go from $9.50 to $11.50 a month, so a $2 increase for higher end. of course it goes higher. on average it is about $4 or $5 more per customer per month. we thought it was reasonable amount the city could kick in. it could be changed. >> so that is something we could as policy makers choose to do, is say let's have the program be self-sufficient, pay for itself. remove the cit

we would like for you to consider going forward. many of the sros are not accessible. that is one thing. and buildings and floors that are accessible, the preference be provided to people who are seniors and people living with disabilities. it is an important issue for this population. and a needed will continue to evolve. secondly, people who come in after hours at issues. what we hear our complaint driven. that can be challenging for people who put in a complaint and want a quick resolution. we think it would be helpful to have short time line for complaints when there are building or health code issues. particular for seniors. this issues that affect seniors and people with disabilities are pressing needs that need immediate remedy. it is helpful to consider around this population and how they will be able to continue to live here. and have quality of life. and being able to have that experience. with that i would like to bring forward a couple of our leaders from our leadership program. dan jordan and steven tennis (sounds like). >> hello, i'm dan jordan, a peer co

in district two that if we will go exclude because to be vulnerable and so forth i would ask we consider that as well. >> we can try anything you like. to be clear, sros were never en included. the whole point is they are the master meter. we are only going after single occupancy or individual meters. apartments with multiple meters we are going after. sros, master meter, they weren't there. no problem with that. the database we use, the pg&e database, i don't believe it has age in it. >> we can work together on the individual ones, because that would be important. >> thank you. did you get an answer with regard to the rates on reserves? >> we assumed that it would be

free housing and i just wanted to talk a little bit about the work we do at the mission sro collaborative because we go out into residential hotels in the mission district 5 days a week and do direct outreach to tenants who live in those sro's. and what we find is that there is land lord harassment happening in sro's and i'm sure it's happening in all other housing types in san francisco. the way that the market is right now is a disincentive really for tenants to be able to bring up any of their concerns for repairs or modifications that need to be made within their rooms. what i hear from tenants, you know, week after week is that they are afraid of retaliation from their land lord. they are afraid that for simply standing up and asserting their rights that they have under the rent ordinance that they are going to be targeted by their landlord for some other action. thinking back to 2008 with proposition m, i know a lot of us had really high hopes that there was going to be sort of a major sea change in the way that, in the way that land lord and tenant disputes was happening and with retaliation but

meetings about common problems in sro hotels and many of us do outreach, it is difficult to address all the concerns that exist, particularly when so many problems go unreported. many city-funded agencies are placing seniors in sro units. this is an enormous opportunity to discuss have the ability issues. our recommendation is that any contract between those city agencies and owners should include a standard of have the ability that is enforced. while this seems basic, many tenants are intimidated when they have concerns over their building. so, many of these concerns do not go reported. let's say that a city department funds a non-profit agency into non-funded sro's. they should require in the contract that they only place people in who are up to code would have the ability standards. in addition, the agency coming to the agreement to place units should require the owner to provide units that are up to code in free of infestation. we recommended inspections and enforcement of this contract language. the addition in the enforcement of this type of language would increase the number of units that meet have the ability standards and make sure that fi

supervisors to spend the week at teh sro's, and to start at the ambassador, where the band played on in the 1980's. you can get in touch with the roots there. there is stuff going on in our neighborhoods that people just do not respect each other, and sro's, they are not homeless people, but that are single room occupancy. if we could just have our rooms and double size, so we have more sizes here. i am amazed that you already know this. my neighbor on the four that i've lived in the, and i really hope that you all can pull up the proposition about the medical marijuana, proposition s, so thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> i am -- in the bible, a king in israel, and it was interesting how this worked itself out. he took a box of broyhill, cracked it over the head of one person, and this was a private and personal meeting. the profits and gehu. and elijah ran out, full speed out of the door, and there were several generals of the king in the room next door, and they said, why did this crazy guy come to you? what is he talking about? and he said, "he told me i am now king." with christ. they put down their garments, every one of the generals,

the addicts who are trying to go clean, the elderly residents of the sros are terrified to go out on the streets. and the people that are supposedly the beneficiaries of this are getting preyed on by other advocates. so i think in some instances, the aclu has lost eight common sen -- lost a common sense balance of rights and responsibilities that has made the effort to the reclaim urban spaces and return american cities to the vitality that they should have and can have as new york city demonstrates, the aclu has made that more difficult. >> well, steve shapiro, i guess this is time to call on you. steve shapiro is the legal director of the aclu for a long time. right? >> right. >> would you like to respond to that, lost its balance. >> let me just say the aclu does not support squalor. we occasionally support depravity. but we do not support squalor. and you know, if what we are down to is debating how the aclu responds to policing tactics and broken windows strategies, then i think we have already reached consensus on about 95% of what the aclu does. so that's a pretty good scoreca

when the housing inspectors go out -- with the sro task force, they can meet on a daily basis with thoseiduals when they are going into presidential tells with respect to bedbugs, heat, and all the other violations within the housing code. yl6ú=tiwhen it starts to rain, l have leaky fixtures. sometimes, when the inspector leaves, we do not always know what the conditions are in the buildings. we will work with them on a daily basis on that. they provide us with reports. those are discussed in detail at the monthly meetings. we participate with them on additional things. you talked earlier about community meetings. we are invited throughout the year to various groups community meetings. the group that was just up here -- we have been invited to their meetings and we have participated in that. we also participate in other training sessions that may be spearheaded by another department. when the health department does training on bedbugs, we make presentations on that. we are there on an annual basis on the panel. there are some things that are not specifically in the budget, but my time an

way that is very straightforward, that's implementable and also importantly that's going to be cost effective for sro operators. what we are presenting to you right now is still a work in progress. as i have said, we are working through some of the technical issues around the installation of the grab bars in particular. we have miss johnson here and rosemary boske who are going to be able to talk through some of the technical issues that we hope we've been able to come up with answers for and we are going to take this legislation, once it's in its most advanced stage, out to the owner community to make sure we have buy-in. one important facet that we're going to be baking into this legislation which will become effective 30 days after its passage is that notices of violation won't be issued for the first 6 months because we want to be sure operators have the time not just to become aware of the installation and install the bars but to do it in the right way. we're going to be creating a technical assistance manual with the help of the mayor's office on disability that will be distributed to building