here's some detail from 1999 through 2013 on evictions, all no fault evictions which includes lfx evictions and for cause evictions, which includes those where a tenant is evicted for not paying the rent or being a nuisance of some type. you will see a sharp increase of he will -- ellis act, the year by the way the rent board tracks is through february 28 so when it says 2013, that's rent board year of 2013 which starts march 1st of 2012 and goes through the end of february of this year. you can see there have been some peaks of ellis act evictions in the past, 2000 and 2001, that was the end of what was called the dot com boom when rents and prices of real estate were very high and escalating very quickly. again between 2005 and 2008 you see a bump in ellis act evictions and that also tracks with a general trend toward sharp increases in property rates and home sales values. and then the bottom row on the total, again, there were numbers of all types of evictions were high in the end of the dot com boom era and slowed down some 2003, down to 1,561 and in all the years since 2003 through 20

. 200 section 8 evictions. the development agreement that the city attorney hammered out with our land lord will call for 1500 evictions in the next few years. we believe it's a piece of paper that's not worth its weight in gold. there was no input from tenants and we'd like to see your legislation cover those evictions that we consider come under the development agreement. we also believe that the board needs to look at constructive evictions. we have a graup of tenants at 310 arballo that face what we consider constructive eviction because of a cell phone tower that's being put in there. we have tenants over near 800 brotherhood way that are constantly day in, day out dealing with the pounding going on with a condo development that's being built on brotherhood way. the plaster is coming off their walls. so we believe that there are solutions. i would respectfully disagree with the solution that you are putting out in terms of registering buyouts and doubling the relocation payments. we're calling for this boa

i work with seniors, i'm going to get evicted, i'm going to get ellis act evicted. did they give you any paperwork? no, just the same shit they've been doing the last 3 years, harassing me. that's abuse. well, when they write any letter, you come talk to us, you will get hooked up. there's no letter, it's degrading. you have to do something, let's do it. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, my name is alteras pearla and i have been living in the bayview district for 14 years. i have been there since 1999. somehow i could continue to make the mortgage payment but when the economy came down a lot it was even more difficult for me to make the mortgage payments so bank of america put the house in for closure and it was bought in 2012 by speculators and i was finally evicted in august of this year. it was really tough for me to leave the house that i had been living for 14 years with my minor son and three tenants and now i am living in the living room of my brother's house, which is not really that comfortable for all of us and is really, the situation has really

these ellis evictions are, ellis act evictions are affecting me because that means more competition. there supposedly our bmr is below market rate, rentals or housing and when you go and ask people treat you like second class citizens when you ask for that, for help. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thanking you for your attention. my name is ian haddo, i have long-term held a rental property which is also my home. i am at risk of being displaced. one of the most powerful questions i know is how did i or we set this up. so when i asked that question for my own benefit i shift my attention from other people and my desire for them to change their behavior where i wield no power, to recognizing how i have contributed to the situation and how i might change my behavior to affect a change and influence others to do likewise. a question which i have not heard being asked in this hearing or in any other situation is why are an estimated 70,000 rental units being withheld from the market? nobody's been surveyed, i haven't been asked, i have been withholding two or three re

this is clients they served who had been evicted for not just ellis act evictions but any type of eviction. of the 2,208 clients that they reported on, 49.3 percent were reported below the poverty level for san francisco, 41.7 percent were reported to have a disability, 12.7 percent were 62 years of age or more, 66.7 percent or about 2/3 were evicted for nonpayment of rent or habitual late payment and racial profiles on the right, 39.1 percent white, 21 percent black or african american, 16 percent latino, 8.9 percent asian. they did not provide other information but certainly the information we had reported that showing the concentration in particularly 7 of the city neighborhoods. that is the quick summary, we have a lot of information in the report, happy to respond to questions now or as the hearing proceeds. >> thank you very much, mr. russo, again i want to thank you and your staff for the very quick turn around on this report. just want to make a couple of comments and i want to begin by thanking all of the residents who have come out to this hearing. i know that there are a number

quote flip buildings and evict people. the high concentration of seniors in our district, i know there's a number of seniors who will be testifying in the inner richmond about 18 percent of the population are seniors in the outer richmond it's about 18.5 percent, way above the city's averages, so i know there are a high number of seniors that are renters in our district. currently there's a building at 15 ogt and anza that's a renter's building. i want to thank mat for a story he broke, a story of ellis act evictions from an investor who admits to real estate conspiracy. in this 4-unit building michael winter and others include a single parent with child and two seniors under threat of an ellis act eviction. if the tenants are forced out like the we family in upton and many families like them, they will have no viable options, or very limited ones as mr. russo's report identifies in san francisco and they would likely be pushed out of the city. these stories are not unique to the mission, to russian hill, to the castro, bu

there are more ellis eviction folks who can get housing. i think the inclusionary program i think it's important to try to think through this. i did want to ask it's not that anyone who is ellis can jump the wait list. you can only get the preference when a certainty entity is accepting applications; is that correct. you can't apply to housing without being notified >> i'm with the housing and community development. i think you're correct. there are a couple of instances we're talking about hero. the inclusionary units low market rates each separate project will have a separate lottery and a separate list a created for the affordable housing there's a separate lottery for each now lease up. and there's a fairly well put together system for the new of new buildings, however, for the rerentals of the one hundred percent affordable buildings the system is not as sophisticated. not that we don't want the system to be more organized i think it was more organized it would be easier for all individuals to have access to that building. as it stand

i live in d1 and i know there are elders there that are fearing ellis act evictions and evictions in general. we have a member of sda that's living in fear of that. we look forward to working with supervisor mar's office in any way that we can to help with that. the heart and the soul of the city is what is at stake. we have been overlooked. the workers, the communities of color, latino, chicano, african american, we have been overlooked and it's almost as if we are an afterthought, you know. and it breaks my heart. i'm a fourth generation san franciscoan, i've been here a long time and i've seen what gentrification has done to our neighborhood. these proposals that you have to weaken the damage that's done by the ellis act, we look forward to working with your offices on that and, you know, making it more difficult, keeping track and data on these ellis act buyouts so that the city can react more forcefully in steming the tide because we don't want to, you know, like you said, supervisor campos, we're really fighting for the heart and soul of our city and we don't want to lose it. i

i don't know how indicative this is of evictions in general but i have not heard of many evictions that don't follow a similar pattern of very very predatory and very very aggressive behavior. we had people in the building who were, moved into the building two months prior to the eviction, i'm sure full well, not knowing they were going to be evicted obviously but the land lords most certainly have known they would be evicted two months later. we have a cleaning lady in the building who has been there 15 years at least, keeping the place immackulate, we appreciate everything she has done, she was asked to leave 3 months ago without any recourse and she has been not paid and myself having been, never seen -- put a -- i would go on but i do feel that it's very, very much an issue that needs to be addressed. >> thank you, sir. let me read a few more names (calling names). >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is carl melindez and i am a member of just cause. i think it's time we begin acting in the well-being of our community. i have the opportunity to be privy to the problems of my comm

hundred 4 had evictions from that and the highest there rate xashd to other kinds of eviction. the code today would allow tenants who have been 90 in their places more than 10 years to receive priority funded by the city of san francisco. the mayor's office of houser and a community development will administer this program will balance our affordable housing nodes. this legislation would impose several things it can only be used once and the priority will expire after 6 years if not used for new developments. only 20 units can be used for the preference and tenant have to meet the eligibility requirements. from my prospective i building there is a critical measure to stop people from becoming homeless in inform. we need to make sure that your residents don't fall through the crack. i wanted to thank the co-sponsors and my colleague and the chinatown development center folks and the tenderloin clinic and the san francisco tenant union for their work on this legislation. i also want to mention i have two technical amendments we want to clarify the first is to closure there are se

deincentivize evictions. i'll be really brief. so much of this is being driven by the lack of affordable housing for people of all levels. what we really need is a complete moratorium on any market rate housing until everyone and all income levels in san francisco can have housing. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is beverly upton and i'm so honored to also in my day job be the executive director of the san francisco domestic violence consortium. i've come before you hundreds of times over my last 15 years here to advocate on behalf of survivors of domestic violence and to find housing for them, be it shelter or low income housing or market rate housing to keep them safe. but today i'm here because my dear friend and i, jackie naylor live at 186 and 192 goth street and we've been there 23 years and 25 years in rent controlled flats and we started out a month ago yesterday by being threatened with an ellis act eviction. we were given an opportunity, you have the letters there, to negotiate but i can

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the incentive to evict between now and that date. the very issue it should be as dates date but i'm in - i see many michael in the audience. there's an ellis eviction going on right now in which the owner stated that he intends to messenger the 3 unit into one and it may be a small percent of ellis by we'll see some problems going forward >> commissioners, if i may the criteria as revising revised in the ordinance also in cases of messengerss whether or not the units are rent controlled. and for most of the ellis evictions that are take place the criteria won't trigger a prohibition only one unit is rent controlled >> thank you. >> commissioner. >> yes. just a procedural observation i guess. i know the legislation isn't written yet but wouldn't it be the case it if it were to go in effect i don't understand the language the commission wouldn't be able to consider it why would it come before the commission wouldn't it be presented and stopped >> the commission would be 3rbd from - we could bring it bruce as an informational item. >> i

and those again could be ellis act evictions or other kinds of evictions. so those items are considered and that's part of the information that is forwarded to the department of public works to the rent board. >> thank you. i had a question. if it's a case, what date in 2004 was it? >> november 16, 2004. >> and through pass skin's legislation in 2005. why do we look at eviction history from 2000 on wards? >> jonelle al ner from the city attorneys office. i don't remember now from those years that those pieces of legislation were created but i think out of an abundance of caution wanted a longer history as it pertained to a particular building to catch potential evictions. so as our supervisor chiu mentioned there are other provisions in the subdivision code that do apply to condominium. so there is sort of a question that is out there which is was this building, did this building go through an eviction process to clear it out strictly for purposes of a condominium. so that is part of the history. the experience that the city has had is when they receive app

we need to stop those evictions and curtail them such as probable. as jean noted we'll be coming forward to the board with new pieces of legislation we think will put a severe dent in the number of evictions. right now we are fully in support of this legislation. thank you supervisor chiu and co-sponsors >> next speaker . >> i want to say i support david choosing legislation. i don't see how a city can function when only 10 percent can afford to live in the city. i wish you a lot of lucky think you will succeed thank you >> next speaker >> . >> (speaking foreign language.) >> so i'm mrs. lee i'm here today because you know i was also a victim of ellis eviction. my landlord used the outlines to evict me i found a place to live with my family. i'm glad for the community support and the city government and also the board of supervisors. i'm really here today to not talk about myself but those still out there still being evicted and displaced. i recommend and suggest that in the city we really need to think and to look deeply in how to address the evicti

we want to add protections for the no fault evictions. in item 6 it deadly with mergers and conversions and have those mergers is the most significant ones we've seen evictions and loss of housing. so we've offered the amendment before you that restrict the mergers of no fault evicts and this was supported by the planning commission and think as well, in number 7 it's illegal non-conforming issues. those are not to be confused with illegal units they were built 3 days before the building codes liquor a 3 unit building that was made for 2 units. a lot of this is rent control housing we want to make sure the planning commission said we could have reasons for landlord who want to evict renovate and rent or sell it a higher rate. we were asked to make the amendment to make sure those alternatives would not be available for 10 years. the planning department is here to give you a full presentation we ask that be put on holdful until after your recess >> you want to continue the item in two weeks. >> yes. >> i have a question. the purpose of leg

real estate prices are going up and tenants are being evicted. we go through this periodically because san francisco as we all know is a wonderful city but this is a really, really important issue and i really applaud our department for being creative in hoping to work with the owner of this building to encourage not evicting the current tenants or changing the occupancy. i'm be looking at the a b notice i notice you're putting in the work we've had sort of i would say not successful history of trying to accommodate artists and protecting folks in the building. we in the 80s came up with the work ordinance that was supposed to let artists have studios and provide affordable space for people to do their work and live in. for many reasons it didn't work it was being misused and played upon and jefferson created important evictions. we need to proceed very cautiously and make sure we're doing what that was intended to do. the work ordinance was as opposed to preserve liveable space for people to live and work in the same areas and not have to pay ex

, that they were going to be evicted. for five months we lived through unbridled abuse, lockouts, guards who demanded identification for us to enter our homes. one of us afflicted with aids is now homeless. our evictors, native san franciscoans, well connected san franciscoans abused us without fear of repercussions. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. blue. >> supervisors, i am diane carpio, resident of the city and county of san francisco for 20 years, my daughter is a native. yeah, there's -- this is definitely a huge, huge, issue, the bigger -- the other piece of the puzzle is the affordable housing aspect of it. and you know with all the funds that we're going through hud and the office of redevelopment and i mean -- it's just appalling that it's gotten to this point. then we had the bid's which the city gives businesses increasing assessments and that impacts all the residents around it. there's realtors, formula retail realtors under the guise of various llc's and they are all connected here and there

most of those ellis evictions people are given a year; is that correct? for ellis act how much time are people allocated >> it's a year for elderly and disabled. >> and so what's the time. >> only 60 days. actually one hundred and 20 and unless there's an extension from the elderly >> good questions commissioner borden. i think it starts to possess more questions. commissioner hillis >> i support the ordinance in the recommendations just a couple questions for mr. chewing. the population when with your building new affordable housing for the affordable housing we've built where are people living now are you - have you studied where people are living now? >> no, we have not done any formal studies. we do have the requirement that for them to be role competitive they've got to live in san francisco many of them do and depending upon their income and staying are relatives some days they're living with those. sometimes, we have applicant that are living in shelters at the time their applying. oftentimes they're living in overcrowded quarters so their sharing

no fault evictions include evictions by which an owner takes a unit off the rental market in san francisco that's for 5 years minimum and if the unit is placed back on the rental market within the 5 years the first tenant has the right to move back in with the first rental rate if on the market in 10 years the second 5 years they can be charged the full rate after the first 5 years >> commissioner i would add that jefferson a no fault there's rules for the no fault if the tenants at fault if they're not adhering to the rental contract with no violations p there are more restrictions on how they can be evicted. >> good afternoon legislative aid to john avalos. thank you for considering that. the commissioner is interested if keeping the maintenance of the 10 year moratorium on the merges. we're interested in having that obey retroactive. we're open to a clear line where the date is easy for the planning staff to apply and you evaluate. one of the reasons for the 10 years is the displacement we're hearing more and more of a need for action. the 5 year eviction rate didn't seem to be slowing