my name's jeff pierce. i've owned my home at the page street address since i purchased the unit nine and a half years ago. i'd like to thank you all for allowing me to present here today on behalf of me and my fellow owners at the subject property in order to appeal the department of public works decision. first off, let me say that there has been a lot of misinformation circulated about this building, so i appreciate the chance to set the record straight on several points of fact. after my coowner, mr. owens, bought the property in 2002, miss canada told mr. owens that she wanted to stay in the property. he responded in good faith and voluntarily offered miss canada a life estate so that she could continue living in the building despite the fact that he was taking the building off of the rental market to make it p.i.c.'s. from that point that miss canada was granted a life estate, she was no longer a tenant in the building. the building was taken off the rental market, and it could not legally have tenants

my aunt suffered a stroke because jeff pierce and another occupant pounded on her door relativelessly. the record said ucsf -- >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. >> in 2015, when iris canada refused to sign an agreement to convert the building into condos, everything changed. she was threatened with eviction. and from what i know from being at a lot of the protests and doing research, those threats never stopped. she -- iris canada embodies the polite of seniors and people with disabilities when -- who have suffered severe illnesses when threatened with evictions from her long-term homes. i kiss suffered three strokes when her case was underway and died in march 2017, a month after her eviction after the sheriff took all of her stuff out of her home and locked her door. this story is part and parcel of the current dire housing crisis in san francisco, the displacement of african american and latino families and people with disabilities and the worship of money over humanity. the applicants have tried to disappear iris canada but we will never let that happen. at another old iris,