ms. rogers or ms. hayward not all east e ellis acts are reported. so when somebody points out that a rent control is lost those evictions that occur because somebody gets a buy out which is still evictions not reported so a number of evictions is significantly higher than what is on the meter of trying to count. the "x" did he see of people in rent control and thus affordable unit is far, far larger than any number can indicate. i live in a neighborhood surrounded by what used to be rental apartment. to what degree they were affordable i can't tell but for years i've talked with supervisor chu about those apartments are all empty. there's somebody waiting for something in order to occupy them with a different form of renters or whatever. it's sad to see there's a large housing stock unoccupied at this point held back because of the things wore discussing here today >> understood. >> i'm supportive as well. i wanted to ask supervisor avalos staff why are we getting the proposal now without the language why not wait for the language? i believe we had scheduled that back and thought we'd have the language by now we wanted to keep the hearing date >> i think you're hearing we're all supportive and obviously rerealize right now, we're having a crisis to the extent we can uphold the housing element in keeping our affordable housing stock on the market is very important. i'm supportive of the 10 year i think the economic cycle i want to keep it a 10 years because of the market. i don't want to create on incentive for people to do that. i kind of want to go into the question i think that ms. hayworth talked about the merger then apply for the ellis i'm trying to think about what kind of properties to get a merger first and i would think if you have tenants living in those buildings. i'm trying to figure out >> procedurally i think you could apply for a merger with the tenant - >> it could practically work that way. >> commissioners i wanted to add an apologize we didn't ask the staff and board to be here. we'll do better to do that outreach in the future so sorry about that >> commissioner. >> i was going to make a motion to recommend for approval it's odd because we're not recommending lengths but i guess to keep the 10 year prohibition in the event date being no earlier than today's hearing on the legislation and maybe to consider alternative for non-ellis act no fault. >> second. >> one final thing unfortunately, there is 0 no means test so many people under retina control are making very good incomes and many of come to me and said this allows them to buy in the san

ms. rogers or ms. hayward not all east e ellis acts are reported. so when somebody points out that a rent control is lost those evictions that occur because somebody gets a buy out which is still evictions not reported so a number of evictions is significantly higher than what is on the meter of trying to count. the "x" did he see of people in rent control and thus affordable unit is far, far larger than any number can indicate. i live in a neighborhood surrounded by what used to be rental apartment. to what degree they were affordable i can't tell but for years i've talked with supervisor chu about those apartments are all empty. there's somebody waiting for something in order to occupy them with a different form of renters or whatever. it's sad to see there's a large housing stock unoccupied at this point held back because of the things wore discussing here today >> understood. >> i'm supportive as well. i wanted to ask supervisor avalos staff why are we getting the proposal now without the language why not wait for the language? i believe we had