my friends beverly upton and jackie nailer were evicted from their home about five blocks away from twitter a couple years ago. as i worked on a proposal for h.u.d. bash at the cadillac hotel, i began to see benefits of the tax break, i have come to support it. but i feel we have concerns with the homeless issues and with the drug epidemic and drug dealers in the neighborhood. and i would like to continue to support building more housing, both affordable housing and market-rate housing. i just want to see us build a tenderloin for everyone that protects low-income people but also pushes forward with building new housing and revitalizing the neighborhood. also in terms of my personal experience, i'm h.i.v. positive. i'm a recovered crystal meth addict. and to me, i really enjoy coming to work each day in the tenderloin. i work on the 300 block of ellis as supportive housing property manager. and it's really good to be getting to know people on the block and having block meetings with the captain and with the other housing providers and with glide and youth with the mission. i would like to o

for beverly upton, the executive director of the san francisco domestic violence consortium, it looked like another attempt to use his wealth to avoid punishment. >> he's used his money and influence this entire time since the very first day and today he finally got a message that it didn't work. >> reporter: he was found guilty of assaulting a woman in 2013 in his san francisco penthouse. that's a place he proudly showed off for newspapers and tv cameras but where later a video showed him hitting a woman more than 100 times in 30 minutes. beverly was not moved by chahal's plea for mercy today. >> well, i'm sure his victims begged for mercy. 113 times slapping, kicking, biting somebody, you don't think they asked him to stop. where was their mercy? >> reporter: chahal only got probation for the first crime because the video of the beating was not allowed in as evidence and the victim refused to testify, but just five months later he again assaulted a woman in his home kicking her nearly a dozen time. that was a violation of his probation and why he has to go to jail for a year. in a te