so speakers andrew long, victor flores, jose chan, michael lyon, ben caty, hennie kelly, beverly upton, jackie naylor, please come on up. >> yes, my name is andrew long, i might possibly be the only rental provider in this room at the moment. i have been coming it these kinds of hearing for over 15 years. different supervisors, different faces, but same issue. the reason we're having an uptick in these kind of no cause evictions is because of 30 years of bad housing policy. we have seen a continuous ratcheting up of the rent control law on owners, especially small owners including the extension of rent control to small owner-occupied 2 to 4 unit buildings. we have an annual increase allowable of only 60 percent of cpi, which does not keep up with costs or inflation. this has caused rents for long-term tenants to be quite low, which is great for them, but it doesn't keep a building up. your rent control laws need to be more even-handed with the land lords. you are driving land lords, especially small land lords, out of business, and when they go out of business having to sell their prop

. >> jason collins, ej patente followed by michael lyons. >> my name is jason cohen, i have been a tour guide in san francisco for 8 years and i urge you to approve option 2. option 2 is a reasonable compromise that should dramatically reduce the impact of tour busses in the neighborhood while still allowing visitors some access to the famous view. as you know, the tour industry is very important in our city. in my own work, for example, the visitors i lead on tours every year represent literally thousands of nights of hotel rooms, thousands of restaurant meals. i work for a local company that takes people on half day tours, i work for a national tour operator where the groups are with me for 10 days doing an entire west coast tour. in both cases we use enclosed tour vehicles so there's no narration audible outside the vehicle. none of the vehicles are tall enough to see in second floor windows. tour busses are good for the environment and good for parking by removing literally hundreds of cars from the roads. other means of access such as muni are excellent but for many people that's n

. >> michael, lyon, sta and gray panthers. thank you for holding these hearing and thank you for the legislation to 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

. >> michael lyons. >> good afternoon, commissioner, members of the board. i am a property owner of the second floor on mccallister street and i'd like to speak about these open top busses. can you hear me all right? that's good. because the way it seems that hearing level goes down every year. every year the buses are louder and louder. ask me to quiet down, i could ask them to quiet down, i've tried and they get louder and louder. i'm on the second floor, i work from home and this is the kind of imposition i am faced with, people looking and photographing, and the amplified noise coming right in my window. i feel it's ironic that if i want to have an amplified event, if i want to have a lecture, if i want to have speakers, i need a permit and yet -- and if someone makes the request it has to be turned down and you have to use these every year, every summer, i look forward to these amplified busses louder and louder and louder. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> lavon hickerson followed by felicia faulkner. >> good afternoon, lavon hickerson, i'm a nati

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