. >> thank you randy shaw. i think this is the first time i've spoken to this commission in 8 years. i missed the vote for tom as the director but you've proven from the last week's events i commend the commission for the wise decision because we've already seen in the last two weeks is the collaborative leadership style so if we had a few directors.org ago a defy who knew everything but tom is working with the directors. to get to the essence of where this is going - and i appreciate president menacing the article implicit laid out the realty and the truth. i'll say why we look at the chronicle it was a saturday and a 3 day weekend much of the public didn't read the article so the public knows your dinner table in exchange the public may not have been as aware of this. where it's going to come down to the evictions are going to come down to permit. and if we stop is it at the board of appeals it will not psyched. tommy mentioned about the other buildings you know when the tenants were saying - yesterday he say

randy shaw of the tenderloin housing clinic blames it on a hot real estate market and speculators. >> they buy a building and then the next day they go out of the landlord business which they have never been in and it's a way to preempt eviction laws for speculators. >> reporter: the "ellis act" allows apartment owners who want to get out of the rental business to evict tenants but state and local lawmakers are working to change that by imposing restrictions on how the "ellis act" is used. >> we need to shut down the incentives that they have used tow evict tenants. we have to make sure we make it harder for these repeat real estate speculators trying to flip properties. >> reporter: some suggestions include more permits or hearings before the resale of a property. or require landlords own a building for at least five years before they can use the "ellis act" to evict tenants. >> if someone has to own the building for five years before they can ellis, that puts a speculator out of business. >> reporter: urban green investments bought the building that 92-year-old man and his 88- year-