about insurance for homeowners and these for instance, in homeowner is situations if i lo lose our insurance you could be defacility on our mortgage i look forward to a positive support from this board of supervisors constructive regulation is what we need. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. hello, i'm dennis i'm a homeowner in san francisco. i live with my wife i three children i run a creative agency and a small art gallery in downtown san francisco for the past four and a half years i've been an air b and b guest and use other home sharing platforms and stayed in dozens of apartments both in and outside the united states i became an air b and b host my reason was not financial it was to share a wonderful experience i've enjoyed there's some unique and special about home sharing the whole experience is like inviting a friend now as a host in san francisco i enjoy giving tours. but air b and b is not just about hospitality i started a new business based on air b and b platform i give tours. guests what purchase the art and if they choose as a souvenir or as a last minute present this is

much higher for homeowners. if you look at the red bars, those differences really largely dissipate. so most household types, regardless again of what your demographic stripe is have median income household between 20,000 and $25,000. the longer we live t fewer sources of income we have to rely on. so again, more financial stress across the spectrum. now turning to housing and financial security. one of the main issues we look at is housing cost burdens. this is the shared households spending at least 30% of income for housing, which is a typical measure of affordability. we refer to severe burdens as people spending more than 50% of their income on housing. we always get a question when we do a report. what do you find surprising? this part of the analysis though it is one we may spend the most time on is one that really gave me pause. if we look at renter households, among older households, the differences aren't that significant from the overall population. people in their 50s and early 60s, about half have h

. >> homeowners are blocked from pulling their green yawns have a new weapon. >> homeowners want them gone, a woman going out to save dozens of >>> covering los altos, antioch, petaluma and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >>> fremont police are warning residents of a scam. investigators say man posing as a city animal services officer struck up a conversation on wednesday with the elderly man. the victim asked the city worker for help to measure for the and then someone bull particularized the health. a safe was missing from the bedroom. >> the fake city workers was hispanic at 5' 7 with average build and dark hair with a tattoo on the left side of his neck a dark colored problem with three dots. this is no christmas of the accomplice. >>> the governor signed a pill to prohibit homeowner associations from penalizing home owners who install drought resistant landscaping. in january they will be barred from taking action against homeowners replacing lawns with drought tolerant plants. they will still be able to establish landscaping rules if they allow for low water plants. water u

she can move out and that leaves the burden to be on the homeowners association. mr. dale bailey tries to create a palm tree row he would have planted a different tree with all due respect to mr. bailey will i i acted on his own accord and never approach outdoor homeowners association we didn't know about the palm tree until it was planted in the ground we regret that mr. bailey didn't read it he has had american people empty plot and here's another opportunity to plant a tree in the ground and feinstein i'll respond to the signatures it's a simple matter for a signature form when they face to hardships day to day or year after year thank you arrest you mentioned in our earlier presentation that you would take attorney's fees to from others for those trees have you having had any interest >> we've haven't made offers we're saying in the board of appeals will guatemala's the right to remove them we'll reach out to the community we've got a list of signatures and can send a letter out to them to see if they're interested. >> thank you. mr. bucks any rebuttal? >> goo

just a homeowner own my own home i show be able to do things that are legal and pay taxed and trim the trees. also with the 90 day cap i take off offers to that this is my home i hope to retire and need the income i would ask the flower shops or taxis drivers or chain stores to limit their revenue i don't think it's fair to do that 0 homeowners. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm neil thank you for hearing us tonight. >> i will in the mission district i support home sharing i've been a homeowner for 9 years my wife and i employee employees so after 10 years of being in business a lot of the money go back into the business we raise a daughter who is that 13 months old. i am concerned about the privacy issue no address or name should be tied together on and on oil to make it easier for criminals as well as endorsement use the platforms anything t is possible. and there's one thing in terms of san francisco you won't be able able to stop this i encourage you to step forward and let's workout the details together thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm richard one thing

next speaker. >> thank you i want to take the opportunity to speak today i've been a tenant, homeowner and landlord and taxpayer in san francisco i work full-time and took time off to be here because hrgdz is an important issue i support i've worked hard and verified to be a homeowner in san francisco. i currently rent a flat out long-term to a young couple in the

> the homeowner was rather brave to do this. are cases where the best thing is too stay a live in this case. >> they don't recommend it. and the last customers was 19 years old and lives here in the city of santa rosa and again the second person involved in this home invasion robbery is still on the run this morning in all likelihood, they were in fact cut down and they were loaded into awaiting car before that homeowner woke up and realized they were inside the home. live this morning, alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> thanks, alex, new this morning, a judge in south africa has rule bed oscar pistorius cannot be charged with killing his girlfriend. he mistook her for an intruder when he shot and killed her and the judge has ruled out a premeditated murder verdict but she must decide whether or not to ivanovic him on a lesser charge which is manslaughter. the the judge will continue when a formal verdict is expected and the whole world will be watching that. >>> the search is over for that mountain lion. coming up, wh

i'm linda i'm a 45 year resident of san francisco i've been a tenant and most recently a homeowner but for the last 2 and a half years i've been mart of the home sharing because my hoouns have a property in the city where we've been able to do this without restrictions hosted people from all over the world for people that testified earlier about the experiences with children we provide strollers and baby equipment that sort of thing this is the kind of people we have staying in the home we can't do this as a full-time register this is why the flexible sharing is so important this house will not going it on the long term rental market because it has a large mortgage in my hoouns want to travel we can we have a right to do those sorts of things as long term residents of san francisco and people that contribute hundreds and hundreds of hours of volunteer work and are invested in san francisco it feels like an insult to be told you have 90 days to do this if i choose to flexibility home sharing is one of the ways we'll be able to have a quality of life and we will be able to help our child

> supervisor kim and i want to respond yes, i'm offering t suggestion your different if you're a homeowner so if you're a condo owner you would get a number of nights hosted and not hosted but if you're a renter there's a restriction this will protect the issue of protecting our rent control housing stoke in the event people are renting out it try homeowners living in are their home they can poesht rent those units out those are challenging questions i have a small concern in the future homeowners are going to start this as a business and now the house is valued at $105 million and not $1 million we're not readily o ready for that concern yet. >> two quick things first of all, whether or not the registration runs with the property i don't know that it does regards even if it doesn't and someone would buy a home and do a airbnb rental they could just registration in terms of the both the impact and combofshlt issues it is not really that different between single families and multiple united buildings when our in a multiple you unit building your impacted with the neighbors and homeowners do

next speaker. >> hello, i'm chris i'm a bay area native a san francisco homeowner and small business owner in the castro i'm here speaking as a small business owner. i want to touch on economic a lot of people have spoken not benefits they've received from sharing their homes i think one the biggest problems we're facing in san francisco is the increased cost of living and thing that help people in the arts or people who are making the 6 figures to stay in san francisco is a great thing we should support but as a small business owner in the castro i'm being asked for places to stay there's not hotels only two or three very small number of rooms so allowing for home sharing and allowing people coming to the neighborhood provides an economic benefit myself and my employees that we wouldn't otherwise see or the visitors staying in do you only hotels so i support home sharing and howe hope you find a reasonable way for it to happen. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, i'm a constituent with meaning i live with my boyfriend and we share a room supervisor kim i want to disagree wi

an awful lot of the expenses that you incur after an earthquake are on the property owner or the homeowner>> the folks who are part of this recovery, they're not all the we will that napa wine makers. >> the city of napa is kind of home to the people that make the wine industry and the tourism industry work. we've got a lot of apartments and low incomey#jÑ housing so we can house the workers. we're proud of being able to provide a place for them to live. so a lot of people that live from week to week foundves themselves without their jobs. some of the hospitality hotels were closed, some of the wineries weren't able to open their tasting rooms. so they've got a double whammy of having destruction at their properties and their homes and also being out of work for a while. so we're trying to get up and running. i have a business property owner who offered -- he had some restaurants. he offered free rent for the next couple months and he said until i get you up and open i'm going to cover the cost of your employees and be sure they get paychecks. so that's one property owner, but what a grea

a homeowner so he could hide. >> ambulances are taking too long and now the mayor's wife is one of the victims. we will tell you how long she had to wait in this exclusive report. >>> the plastic bands, it could take affect on what governor brown decides today. >>> the man accused of setting fires in alameda headed to court today, and one man said he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. ktvu channel 2 morning news continues. . >>> this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> good morning, a four hour manhunt in palo alto ended with the arrest of this man after he walked out of the front door of a home but this morning we have learned about a dramatic new twist in that case. we want to take you live to where this happened, coming up in just five minutes, janine de la vega tells us how the suspect be friended the homeowner in an elaborate attempt to evade police. >>> steve as far as the forecast are you concerned about fire danger? >> i am thursday and friday but today not so much. there is a weak system which is flying out of the picture but high pressure is on its way and will kick in

so suggest hoa the homeowners association. >> i'll second that motion. >> so we have two or 3 amendments and they were one was the landlord notification and one increase in the loiblt insurance required and one adding the homeowners association both comedy and single-family homes to 0 the definition of interested parties those are the 3 amendments. >> actually can you ask the implementation of adding that to the interested parties supervisor kim do you have a specific language or only want to insert that one. >> only that word anywhere in those line 24 through - 24 and 25 to page one and two just say it's the last one homeowner association is after the u.s. code it and matter which order of the interested party. >> it needs to be spechified te hoa. >> the only one that is covering the units. another question is the hoa listed in the listing i'm thinking of the condo building they only registration their building. >> that gives me a opportunities to clarify someone else when we're talking about posting the information on the database it is the only address and the entitlement that actual

. >> thank you i want to take the opportunity to speak today i've been a tenant, homeowner and landlord and taxpayer in san francisco i work full-time and took time off to be here because hrgdz is an important issue i support i've worked hard and verified to be a homeowner in san francisco. i currently rent a flat out long-term to a young couple in the mission district they went for a local startup and as a landlord i'll allow them to sub let if it's safe and agreed upon way with with my own home i moved to the outer sunset. there are so few xoomgsz options in my neighborhood and able to shape the visitors impressions of the city the people are oftentimes investing visiting family and caring for family members or experiencing a different part of the city some have never been to the beach and also my guests are attendee to 70 marathon and america's cup and dream forest and other conferences if you support those high revenue events i hope you'll support home sharing to provide accommodations to the of those are my neighbors and sharing my home helps me to contribute i invest more in my pr

thank you, supervisor i'm roger ritter of the twin peaks coincidentally council we represent 20 homeowner successors is in western san francisco we opposed others legislation as drafted and suggest two amendments that frail prohibit short-term rentals in rh1 and rh1 d single-family home residential neighborhoods people wanted to live in single-family homes in my neighborhood of balboa terrace approximately 10 percent of the houses have changed licenses i've spoken to many neighbors they live there to raise their family in a single-family home neighborhood at least prior get written consent of the homeowners organization in the f t r is actually going to be allowed in a particular neighborhood if the activity is to abstain if the airbnb is so good there shouldn't hi my problems with asking our neighbors i've heard about vigilantes the people in the western neighborhoods are single-family home owners they want to live in peace and security with their family and lastly supervisors that is a citywide rezoning allowing a commercial activity renting rooms in residential neighborhood realize the

. >> homeowner want them gone. come up next on 7 news. fight local woman going out on a limb to save these squirrels. >> plus congestion in coach. frightening flight that filled with smoke. tonight passengers describe the terrifying moment moments. >> and she started the scandal that crator of some of the favorite abc show and what she has planned for the thursday night now. >> if showers long gone just some clouds right now. let you know what this last weekend of summer will bring. but first here's jimmy kimmel. >> here's a sample what we have in store for tonight. >> the guy with the big must taivrnlt he has very blonde daughter. >> yes. >> no. that will be $22 dollars and 50 cents. $22.50. that's insane! jack. what? it's not even a meal? right now, at my place you can get my spicy chicken club combo. it's my classic spicy chicken breast with bacon and melting cheese on toasted sourdough plus fries and a drink for just $4.99. aww, you're just a big softy. nah, i'm still sad about the popcorn. . >> breaking news tonight. decision in the

news4's shemari stone is on the job and went to get answers from the homeowners association. >> it'srustrating. >> reporter: john albert says he can't barbecue in his backyard in the loft ridge limelight community in fairfax county. >> my backyard, which is essentially a sanctuary, is a paperweight, and it just doesn't seem fair. >> reporter: take a look. hornets showed up two weeks ago, and they've taken over, swarming around this tree. they can be aggressive, sting him at any moment. so, his grill, fire pit and lounge chairs are neglected. >> it's a complete loss of use of a space. >> reporter: here's the problem. the tree that appears to be dead is planted in his neighbor's backyard. it's next to the fence they share. john says his neighbor won't remove the hornets. i tried to ask him about it. hey, how's it going? >> good. >> reporter: my microphone and camera's on. i'm a reporter for nbc news 4. we wanted to ask you about the hornets in the backyard. do you have anything -- john told me he called a pest company. >> the company couldn't do anything because they wouldn't allow spr

police say the homeowner was shot once in the leg. >> the homeowner was rather brave to do this. these are one of these case, though, sometimes the best thing to do is sit back, call 911, report what you are seeing and he's lucky to be alive in this case. >> investigators say a 19-year- old suspect was found hiding in the bushes. he was arrested. police are still looking for the other man who got away. >>> sunnyvale police are warn about a -- warning about a group of men snatching people's gold chains right off their next. these two pictures were released by police. they are of the car involved and one of the suspected robbers at least. there are been 15 reported case of this and while most victims were women, one man was targeted. at least two of the chain snatchings, the robbers also pulled out a gun. >>> several residents in milpitas had to be evacuated after heavy smoke from a house fire. the fire broke out after 5:00 this morning on the 1700 block of dennis avenue in milpitas. firefighters say nobody was home at the time but several residents nearby were evacuated as a preca

i'm sharpening i don't think no one i live in katrero hill i'm a homeowner i host my unit and travel for businesses about once a month it was a way to make extra money. i'm sure you're aware of costs are going up and property taxes and other things and my income has remained the same i struggle as a single person it's been a positive addition for the extra $1,200 a month to apply to my expenses i don't run over 90 days i don't have a problem with the limits i know that one size doesn't fit all this commission needs to be careful about grouping things across the board air b and b is a global business they've done tremendous things for the economy their office are close, in fact, my hosts are the people young business travelers and katrero is booming we have change.org and so many new startup companies and no hotel facilities maybe like fifth and howard there's a need for travelers both toufrldz to travelers to be able to walk to the businesses and be able to support us and lastly this is a global business and issue san francisco needs to look at other businesses and criticize. >> than

. >> homeowner want them gone. come up next on 7 news. fight local woman going out on a limb to save these squirrels. >> plus congestion in coach. frightening flight that filled with smoke. tonight passengers describe the terrifying moment moments. >> and she started the scandal that crator of some of the favorite abc show and what she has planned for the thursday night now. >> if showers long gone just some clouds right now. let you know what this last weekend of summer will bring. but first here's jimmy kimmel. >> here's a sample what we have in store for tonight. >> the guy with the big must taivrnlt he has very blonde daughter. >> yes. >> no. no . >> breaking news tonight. decision in the historic independence vote in scotland. majority has voted against breaking away from the uk. no side had 55 percent of the vote to 45 percent on the yes side. so scotland 307 year union with england will continue. voter turn out was about 86 percent that is a record high. >> fight over ground squirrel hitting neighbor against neighbor in danville to

the success fee that are general contractors pay for the homeowners is completely free. >> for the homeownerst is completely free? >> completely free. >> you get together the data about the various projects so that can be shared with potential future customers? >> absolutely. every project posted on our site, we get three estimates for. we have a very good understanding of the cost per square foot of renovating in new york city. >> is there a plan for a national rollout? >> right now we are just in new york. it is a $12 billion market. we think we will be in more cities very soon. >> i want to bring you back into this conversation. you're rising tide can lift all boats. is there some specific thing that you find people are most interested in having in their home, whether it he a remodel or an addition of some kind? what is attracting people's attention? maybe it could be these new environmental gadgets like the remote-controlled humidity and air conditioning. >> with the report that came out about the housing market's continuing momentum, we are seeing the type of projects people are doing ri

much higher for homeowners. if you look at the red bars, those differences really largely dissipate. so most household types, regardless again of what your demographic stripe is have median income household between 20,000 and $25,000. the longer we live t fewer sources of income we have to rely on. so again, more financial stress across the spectrum. now turning to housing and financial security. one of the main issues we look at is housing cost burdens. this is the shared households spending at least 30% of income for housing, which is a typical measure of affordability. we refer to severe burdens as people spending more than 50% of their income on housing. we always get a question when we do a report. what do you find surprising? this part of the analysis though it is one we may spend the most time on is one that really gave me pause. if we look at renter households, among older households, the differences aren't that significant from the overall population. people in their 50s and early 60s, about half have h

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now, officers have spoken with that homeowner. they don't believe he meant to harbor a criminal, so they are not going to charge him with anything, but they are hoping that this is a lesson for adults and stranger danger. if you don't know the person, don't let them in your home. reporting live, bob redell. >> good advice there, bob. >> a warning for people traveling to san francisco that will draw some big crowds and criminals. police say thieves are focusing in on cameras especially close to popular tourist attraction. and with the harley blue grass and fleet week around the corner, they want everyone to keep their eyes open. they say a photographer was robbed sunday morning and there have been other incidences of thieves stealing camera equipment. >> the new span of the bay bridge will be shown to the bridge oversight panel. you'll recall more than two dozen steel rods broken when they were tightened during construction last year. those failures prompted an investigation of more than 2,000 other fasteners or the bridge to deter

. >>> a homeowner had unknowingly hit the suspect. here is janine dela vega with more on where the search ended. >> reporter: police say the suspect walked out of one of the homes behind me here on everett court with the homeowner. he said he had be friended him. this is the photo of dominique annette from san francisco. he got on palo alto's police's radar just after 5:00 yesterday afternoon and he may have committed fraud at the bang of america. he hop add fence and officers established a perimeter called in k-9s and establish add search. after a half hour they spotted him walking out with a homeowner and when the officer approached he started running but another officer was able to catch him. he told police he found him in the back yard injured and he offered him dipper and a ride -- dinner and a ride to the train station. he believed the suspect did not fit the description. they are urging residents not to allow people in their home and it is fortunate that homeowner did not become a suspect. ktvu news news janine dela vega. >>> t

homeowner ship races have held up well. a slight decline in 55 to 79-year-olds and 80 plus has gone up a little bit. the 50 to 64-year-old group has seen the homeowner ship rate fall. it's not one that's likely to be made up in the remaining years before retirement. we are going to have that group go into retirement less likely to own their home. if we look at the overall net wealth picture between 2007 and 2010 the 50 to 64-year-old group saw yet wealth grow. the common theme in the report is the group of 50 to 64-year-olds and how much they have been suffering from the recession and other financial issues we have been having, less likely to find benefit pension plans. as much as we look at today's older households, trying to extrapolate from the 50 to 64-year-old group forward it's not a pretty picture. in terms of health there are a lot of figures in terms of the distribution of wealth by owners and renters. the bottom line is homeownerers have a quarter million dollars of net wealth for the typical to median homeowner c

. >> so move on to item 5 this is at 363420th street homeowners association vs. the urban forestry appealing the denial on july 23rd of a tree removal permit to remove two trees await replacement we'll start with the appellant. >> again, you have 7 minutes. >> do i put inhabits on the surface show. >> yes. facing up. >> i'm greg a purchasing and resident of 8 years on 20th street first thank you to the board to show why we're asking for that will you will respond to the briefs and materials i've witnessed the slow decline of the trespassed you may be hearing from people today that are tree hugers but those trees don't provide good things that's not true the hoa has talked about planting trees in the grouped and replacing the trees and containers we've doeftsd ample time to pros and cons in at least 5 meetings i lost count after that i want to she was we've considered outline possibilities and didn't make the decision lightly the department of public works brief stated many of problems have ground plant trees i need to respond because a complete discussion of thos

of days i share my home we only rent during the summer and holidays that can exceed 96 days as a homeowner i should obey to use my home as and fit i live in my home full-time and the second piece is the public reggie have no problem registering whatsoever but my private information should only be available for the city and you can see my information it encourages vigilants there should be a way to handle complaints and furthermore, i understand there's talk of reporting twice a year i think once a year should be enough and i also wanted to deliver those fair to share petitions that were signed by 4 hundred people and 4 thousand citywide i want to make sure that supervisor farrell got those and hoping you could use those - >> thank you very much. next speaker. and supervisors as well as the planning department i own my property bought a building 13 years ago and did the condo conversion and no evidence the two tenants that did live upstairs of their right to stay they voluntarily left on their own i gave them a lawyer one relocated and one bought a home i still give them financial compensat

for those homeowners looking for help, it was a disappointment. >> frustrating. really frustrating. >> reporter: now the service center, red cross service center is a much bigger help for people who have far less to live with, people who have been living all week in the red cross shelter, the service center is helping find them temporary housing, food and clothing if needed. mark matthews, nbc bay area n s news. >>> in gilroy, the usgs says there were a total of eight small magnitude quakes ranging from 3.1 to 5.5. people are alarmed and others didn't feel it. >> reporter: it's difficult to explain even for the usgs. you know how it works. there are time when is we get calls into our newsroom when we get calls for a 2.5 earthquake. but this one barely got noticed. this video from a market shows no signs of a quake this morning. that's the time when the quake struck. did you feel the earthquake? >> no, i didn't, sorry. >> reporter: only a few people did, like gina gonzalez. >> this was a strong roll, so strong that i got up and was waiting for the big jolt to come

the homeowner was shot once in the leg but he is going to be okay. this all happened about 1:30 this morning on windsor court. this is in the rincon valley neighborhood of santa rosa. following that shooting, those two thieves ran off and that prompted a major police search involving a helicopter and k-9 searches as well. one of the men was found hiding in the bushes and taken into custody. officers couldn't find the other young man involved here. police say the homeowner in this case really didn't want these thieves to get away. he even tried to detain one of them on his own initially. it's not something police recommend. >> in the heat of the moment, he certainly has a right to chase after the attack and attempt to detain him. this is one of the dangerous incidents we see, people breaking into holes, especially in these cases, there was a marijuana grow located in the house. it appears that's what the suspects were here, they cut down multiple marijuana plants. >> reporter: police say the homeowner in this case is really lucky to be arrive after th

the homeowner said tabb said he had been jumped. the homeowner helped him and offered him dinner and a ride to a train station. after nearly four and a half hours, the officer saw tabb walking out of the house with the homeowner and arrested him. >> while we discourage anyone from staking a stranger in your house, it appears he was trying to be nice. we're very lucky nothing bad happened to the person. >> the homeowner got an alert from the county by phone but he did not think that tabb fit the description. tabb is wanted in oklahoma for sex crimes with a minor. >>> san francisco police are investigating an early-morning robbery and shooting near civic center plaza. it happened before 3:00 at hide an fulton streets. police say the suspect confronted a group of men forced them up against a building and took their money. before leaving, he shot one of them. that 19-year-old victim was taken to the hospital with life- threatening injuries. >>> some scathing words for the director of the secret service as she testifies before congress t

next speaker. >> hi i live in berno heights as a homeowner and lifelong visitor. >> sir, i evaporatealled you yet but it will be in a few minutes. >> hi, i'm bobby lee i think you called me before i begin i want to make sure that supervisor kim gets this 2 hundred and 70 - it's for district 6 and i guess just a couple of points i want to really focus in on the registration that is being put if place i trial building if you make it, too difficult for the registration you want to implement into this new thing we're experiencing online with home sharing that that's going to be forced underground i mean if it becomes two difficult 40 in registering and i see and people being involved in the money pot craig's list i've all right said if it's too indemnify a techie will create an approach to be able to do this in the lines of being you know within the legislator leg loyalty in references to the permission in a sense being given by the city because of it's registration it comes down to the landlord and tenant i think the functioning aspect of this is below the surface of the knowing - cutti

homeowners won't have to do anything.the company has come under fire for not having to pay the same taxes as hotels do. >> in sacramento, governor brown signed a bill requiring on demand ride services the measure establishes new coverage levels a deal was struck, when drivers don't have a passenger in their cars. now, a report shows how many rides, taxi trips are down 65% to about 500 per month, per taxi. >> 31 employees were laid off today. the hospital blames the affordable care act for the layoffs. abc7 news is live. >> hospitals have been complaining about medicare reimbursement. for a hospital to say we're cutting because of the affordable care act, we haven't heard that before. washington hept will operate with 244 fewer employees. 196 people, or 12% of the staff left this year because they found another job or simply left. another 17 employees or 1% retired voluntarily after offered a receiverance package. 31 people laid off today makeup 2% of the employees here. that adds up to 244 positions that, according to the

homeowners won't have to do anything.the company has come under fire for not having to pay the same taxes as hotels do. >> in sacramento, governor brown signed a bill requiring on demand ride services the measure establishes new coverage levels a deal was struck, when drivers don't have a passenger in their cars. now, a report shows how many rides, taxi trips are down 65% to about 500 per month, per taxi. >> 31 employees were laid off today. the hospital blames the affordable care act for the layoffs. abc7 news is live. >> hospitals have been complaining about medicare reimbursement. for a hospital to say we're cutting because of the affordable care act, we haven't heard that before. washington hept will operate with 244 fewer employees. 196 people, or 12% of the staff left this year because they found another job or simply left. another 17 employees or 1% retired voluntarily after offered a receiverance package. 31 people laid off today makeup 2% of the employees here. that adds up to 244 positions that, according to the

the property line. >> reporter: homeowners who had defensible space was a key. it caused minor damage to two homes. miller-mccassey's suvs was burn in the back but not among the four vehicles destroyed. but what mattered most is her two dogs were rescued. >> guy, guys. >> reporter: the lack of wind really helped but hours after the fire responded embers burning in the tree near homes. crews say it's too early to say what caused the fire but it may have started in the home that was destroyed says miller- mccassey. amber lee, ktvu news. >>> further north firefighters are working to contain two wildfires that are threatening hundreds of homes. the fires have burned nearly 6,500 acres near happy camp. almost 700 homes are still threatened tonight including 250 homes that are under mandatory evacuation orders. it's extremely important that people in those areas follow the evacuation orders. >> so steep and so rugged it's just not safe to put crews in there. we can put crews in there and they can work. but if something goes wrong, it's very difficult to get the injure

bulldozers cut across homeowners yards. many times the bulldozers got there just before the flames and sometimes just after. >> let's go, let's go. >> reporter: the department of forestry firefighters treed to knock out the fire. the fire was faster than they, ultimately. because the fire was expected to break out at the other end instead of this one the force that remained near loyalton was much lower than yesterday. so the firefighters here had their hands full. >> we've been here about three days now. worked a double the first night. >> if you had known what this was going to be like would you have done it any way. >> certainly. >> back up, back up. >> sometimes the strategy was to stop the fire before it reached the house. >> reporter: sometimes to let it run through except the house. at least the fuel that was allowed to burn will not burn again. it's close to the house now as you can see but people are already tied up trying to do a backfire to stop this one. there just isn't enough people to be in all these places al

the homeowner received an alert but he didn't think the man fit the description. an alert police officer saw them leave the house. there was another short chase that ended with tabb being caught. given, you saw his mug shot. he has been booked into jail. officers have spoken with that homeowner. they do not believe that he meant to harbor a criminal. therefore they are not going to be charging him with a crime. police want this to be a lesson for adults in stranger danger. don't let people you don't know into your home. >> thanks so much, bob. >> breaking news right now in the business world. ebay and paypal we just learned are parting ways. >> tech reporter scott mcgrew joins us. what does it mean? >> it means paypal can get out there and chart its own course. you can pay by paypal at home depot, for instance. but this allows paypal to really flex its muscle and take on square and apple. apple just announced apple pay. this is the new battle ground. your wallet is the next hot thing being like social networking was just a few years ago, and once again the bay are

proposition 8 allowed homeowners to get a temporary reduced assessment. as prices go back up, if a home that was reduced increases in market value by more than 2% per year, then its assessed value can go up by more than 2%. >> some people may receive some significant increases. >> reporter: gus kraemer is the tax assessor for contra costa county and says some homeowners will see greater increases than others. >> the percentages are all over the map. it's not what community you live in. it depends when you bought your home and when we reduced the value. some people's values are only coming up 2%. many people's are going to be 20% or possibly more. >> reporter: it's basically the downside of a rebounding market. >> i sold a home in concord, one of the nicer areas of concord, about three years ago for 675, and those are now going in the high 8s to low 9s. >> reporter: like they could with assessed values during the down years, property owners can appeal their new values if they think they have gone up too much. in lafayette, laura anthony, abc 7 news. >>> th

and this year covered by business insurance company so it's homeowners insurance if you do a goldstein service the difference between a regular rental and a vacation ail rental is 7 to $800 a year it covers it and a regular homeowners policy. withstand i want to say that a lot of the issues the rent ordinance already covers that people can't make more money than their proposition of the space that ordinance is in place for rent control units so i don't understand the pressing issue and i also would strongly oppose the 90 day cap and the registry that seems xooefgly overbearing parts of the reason my parents emigrated was to get opportunities and i've done this i was an engineer i still do that but this is an important part ever my life that's come to be because of the opportunities in this country and i'd like to add as a traveler air b and b levels the field i can stay in homes and have access to places where someone as my income i would be relegated to a hotel or room but now that people have generously opened up their homes. >> before i get to the next speaker we've received an infl

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next speaker. >> my name is carolyn as a homeowner and a single-family i understand the concerns of the speakers that claim the importance of the short-term rental to continue to live in san francisco louver the negative impacts of the short-term rental i think the enforcement is the biggest issue in the rh1 and other areas most questions related to apartments and landlord not to the rh1 or rh1 d areas the legislation includes the landlord notification but what about the residential notice that who will address the concerns in those areas a june san francisco chronicle documents the housing the impact on the san francisco housing supply the store notes it favorites tourists over san francisco tenants and residents the oral quotes the results compiled in may 2014 by the harvesting company connote chief strategy officer states there are chronicle housing shortage and the around model has a significant impact 2/3rd's of the 5 thousand rentals were for whole houses and with pricing averaging 8 hundred plus dollars a night what is the insensitive to make that affordable legislation contradic