i don't think it's fair to punish this particular client in terms of their use of the rental unit. >> commissioner hillis? >> i would agree with that. i feel that somebody would come in 10 years and say it's a non-functional unit and ask to merge that to a single family unit. i was expecting when i saw this home in a layout with a floor and a second floor unit. i think what we got was as if you were trying to meet their needs in the letter of law. with all the pressure to maintain units. it feels to us a little bit like we are taking 3 units and putting it into a single family home. >> right. in this particular case, this is not an egregious size made family unit. it's 1840 square feet. the unit that is being maintained has a decrease of 44 square feet and increase in functionality. there are many people in san francisco that live in this and love this size apartment and the size of it offers more affordability. >> i'm not against a merger. i just think what we are looking at is kind of a bit of a single family. i agree. you show 2 units. but it doesn't read that. i don't think it fun

stay on and off to assist with the children and their plan is to eventually move in to the small rental unit and they would need the use of the elevator. >> that sounds like a climb to get to the other units, that's the main unit. >> correct. >> it's a two level unit now. will be a 2-unit level when it's completed. >> it will actually be a three level unit. if you visualize it from the top floor, the main house, the three bedroom house goes across the top floor and then essentially down the back i had. so it includes the back little section of the second floor and a little section on the first floor. >> yeah. thank you. i definitely agree this makes a lot of sense particularly for the needs of this family, but in creating a more functional home for families in the future even if this one wasn't here because we have a shortage of larger homes which have enough room for extending families even given the in laws might or the grandparents might live in the separate lower unit still a large family. it's not excessive what they are asking to do with their own property. it was originally 2 units as

the number of affordable rental units steadied, and a third are occupied by higher income households. >> when they are competing for a rental unit, from someone working at amazon who can play a higher first and last month's rent. people in lower socioeconomic places are not the winners. >> lisa heads the seattle society. her office opened up a waiting list. there were 2,000 lots available. 20,000 applied. >> when you look at the projections for the rental markets. supply and demand is flat. i don't see that we'll come out of this any time soon. as the demand for rental housing soars, middle class americans are feeling the squeeze. >> i feel like the amount paid is absurd. i feel like we have a good deal. >> the family competed with others for their $1500 a month rental. less expensive apartments were snapped up withins hours of listing. >> i don't know how anyone can break out of the cycle >> william rome is hopeful. >> i'll be back on top some day. >> and out of shelter he calls home. >> with a spike in cost seattle was rated as one of the most affordable big cities for renters. high

building but the landlord doesn't want that one he moves in and that would be stopped and turn to rental unit into one single-family home. the 10 year moratorium is appropriate for that reason and because of the ellis age so the unit is removed by conversion or demolition or mergers so the landlord is now empowered to offer back to the tenant if they go back into the rental business. with regards to the amendment the temporary evictions i would suggest that - >> thank you, sir. thank you >> good afternoon. i'm peter rice i'm with small property owners. one of the aspects of this legislation that concerns me is that it's going to make it harder for middle income people to purchase housing. with our small rentals i receive acquires almost weekly from different people trying to move out of the remedy area and into buying a home. the only way to do that in san francisco is to start it a smaller piece of property in an older building. this legislation will prohibit people from buying homes and enter the market through the t u ced. i'll leave this to the lawyers you can tinker with the ellis anchor

$19,000 a year or less searched from 3 million to nearly 12 million and the number of affordable rental unitsas held steady at 7 million, almost a third of them are occupied by higher income households. >> when they're out competing for a rental unit with someone who works at amazon who can pay a higher first and last month rent, people in lower soci socioeconomic levels are not the winners of that. >> few months ago her office opened up a waiting list. there were 2,000 slots available. 20,000 people applied. >> when you are looking at the projections for the rental markets, the supply and the demand is pretty flat. so i don't see that we're going to be coming out of this any time soon. >> reporter: and as the demand for rental housing soars middle class americans are also feeling the squeeze. >> i feel like the amount we pay just to represent this house is absurd and i feel like we got a good deal. >> reporter: he and his family competed with others for their $1500 a month rental. dozens of less expensive were l snapped up within hours of their listing. >> i don't know how anyone can break o

if people cannot afford, to gain access to these rental units, you may want to have housing choice couchers. the main problem is on the supply side. we have land use regulations in place, and it's restricting the development of new rental housing. i think that should be addressed in earnest across the country. >> sheila, if there are so many families working families making a decent wage at the middle of the middle class how come there aren't enough units to house them that they can afford to pay to live in? >> well, i think that's the classic example of a market failure. there is a huge pent-up demand for rental housing. we only have to look at the size of the waiting list for housing vouchers videos the country. they're years long for people to get housing assistance. the cost of building and operating housing is more than people earn, more than people can afford base on what they earn in the low-wage workforce. as ages are stagnating or going down, the cost of housing is going up, and there is a disconnect. you can in fact improve the way it is that local governments respond to that by r

the ellis act has allowed 6,000 units to be withdrawn from our rental market. the ellis act has been used by new owners who purchase the building of evoking the ellis act for their own reasons. we have seen trends where they are buying the rental units and then changing them. we also know that speculators who have used the ellis act to evict tenants and those most vulnerable of our city. given the fact that we do not have time to wait for ellis act evictions to take place before establishing more local control that we need do everything we can to stem the tie of speculative evictions. this calls for our may and -- mayor and board of supervisors to restrict ellis act evictions to restrain the ellis act evictions and disrupting our efforts to grow according to our general plan and our neighborhood plans. so colleagues, we ask for your support with this resolution to support changes within our state legislature to return more local control to our local municipalities to stop speculative ellis act evictions. second item i have is to request a hearing in early next

we're concerned about the loss of affordable housing when their merged into residential everywhere rental unit. unfortunately we're forced to walk the line between state law and to evaluate 9 kinds of control in the housing needs in san francisco. it requires the city to maintain affordable housing and this is credit card a viable interest to encourage the non eviction of units it is for beliefs on no fault eviction. evictions can't be loud over october >> that's prospective. we believe the timeframe is appropriate under the ellis act interest so the other piece of ledger's election is around non-conforming use nor non-conforming housing. we know note those are legally existing units because of the zoning laws. those are not in law units. typically ass those are non-conforming unit that are built before our laws that were built in the city and the age of the opt are prominently rent control units. there are nearly 52 thousands of those units e.r. 52 thousand of the cities stock. we have a map i have it here that shouz shows the units are they're all in the core of the city but throughout san f

we are talking about folks who at some point, you know, many of them were living in homes and rental units in san francisco. i had a conversation recently i think it was probably in supervisor tang's district with a gentleman who was talking about how he used to live in the neighborhood. how he was pushing out of his unit and how he could not imagine having been born and raised in san francisco living anywhere else. the only way he can do that was to live in his van. and proceeded to explain that he'd have to get a little stove where he can cook. he paid gym membership so he can use the shower and bathroom. and i asked him why are you parking in this neighborhood? well, this is where i have lived for so many years. so, i understand the concern. but at some point shouldn't we care about what's happening to this individual and if we can give them a place where he can safely park in a way that minimizes the impact on the neighborhood, then why wouldn't we do that? >> i don't have a good answer for that. i think the first place to start is reexamine the police codas the starting point because

will learn more about the navy's removal of toxic chemicals in the ground below their homes. 24 rental units have when doled they may have to relocate while the navy cleans up the area. the chemicals are from the naval base on the island saying it is still safe to live there because the low level chemicals are buried and not accessible but the clean up project is not related to radiation measurements taken a few blocks away. >> a new warning if you consume lots of energy drinks, german researchers imaged the hearts of 18 healthy young abilities before and an hour after downing an energy drink. they found energy drinks cause the hearts to squeeze harder but there was no change in heart rate or blood pressure. bigger studies are needed to further study health effects of the ingredients and caffeine. >> the original energy drink, coffee, gets leyla gulen going in the morning. >> why know what i would do without it. good morning, everyone. from the east bay hills camera toward san francisco and the bay bridge, you can see how we have this mass of low clouds and fog coming in over the bay area so

we have 6000 rental units coming online. some mid-market have come online and we've already started to see rents drop up to $500 per unit. >> how many are we going to need bay area wide? >> there's no estimate of how many. maybe we can build ourselves out of it but we can build to a lower rent level >> this issue is not going away. this is going to be a driving force. >> thank you thank you. back to you guys. >>> let's check out the weather today. it's going to be pretty calm all around the bay area. good travel day as we mentioned earlier. cool this morning. we'll see the cool spot up in the north bay. 36 napa. inland, 40 degrees in livermore. upper 60s almost everywhere. 69 down in san jose. looking at the five-day forecast, we have some changes in store coming on tuesday. even the possibility of rain and it's going to cool down significantly and stabilize through next weekend. >>> some folks in a quiet neighborhood are atwitter. >> bird watchers claiming their next straining to catch a glimpse of something rarely seen in

so for those of you who have rental units, i encourage you to upgrade your stairs and your spacing so that you have good hand rails and spacing where people can't slip through because that's -- well, it's not in the code as a requirement. it comes up from the results of lawsuits and so on that that is really the expectation of a building owner. ok. here's one of those stairs we're talking about. talking about this meeting the wood frame building. will they -- well, they expand and contract and settle and they always leak. you could build it so it couldn't leak with the right kind of flashing, it would be a real challenge. >> the way to do that is put the stairs and have things going around that cover that for the stucco so the stucco goes down on top. but basically the situations that we come across are ones where it's dying into the stucco and there's caulk eventually being used to keep it waterproof. >> just like this one. >> yeah. >> and what happens? the water gets in that, it's a wood frame wall. the water gets into the wood frame wall and run down and start to rot the material i

units and the desire to renovate and make them what they want them to be. i understand it's their property, but this also sadly takes much needed rental housing units off the market which are just a very low supply of our units that are rent controlled units. and i just also lastly want to say, because i think people get sometimes confused with rent control. rent control is not necessarily meaning the units are affordable. rent control means that you don't get the significant increase in your rent. your landlord is only able to raise your rent by a small percentage compared to those that don't have rent controlled units. but sadly it is a problem in our city, and why these rent control units are so incredibly valuable. so, i agree with supervisor cohen's comments earlier that, yes, this is something great that we're doing, but we have to look at the larger picture here as well and how we try and deal with rentals and what this means in terms of affordable housing in the city in order to not be forced into a situation where we have to continuously push emergency legislation that is a gray if i can, a temporary fix, but there's a larger problem here. we have

. >> when they are out competing for a rental unit in the market from someone perhaps who works at amazon can pay a higher first and last month's rent, people in lower and socio economic are not the winners in this. >> reporter: she heads the housing authority and a few months ago they opened up a waiting list and there were 2000 slots available. 20,000 people applied. >> when you're looking at the projections for the rental markets, the supply and the demand is pretty flat. so i don't see we are going to be coming out of this any time soon. >> reporter: as the demand for rental housing soars middle class americans are also feeling the squeeze. >> i feel like the amount we pay to just rent this house is absurd and i feel like we got a good deal. >> reporter: and he and his family competed with dozens of others for their $1500 seattle rental and less expensive appointments were snapped up within hours of the listing. >> i don't understand how anyone could ever breakout of this sort of cycle. >> reporter: william rome is holeful. >> i will be back on top some day. >> reporter: and out of th

unit. >> okay. so, to make your legislation, connect the dots for me. how does this save rentals? or affordable -- what are we trying to do here? >> according to this incentive for units to be demolished or merged and converted. one of the ways is if there has been a no-fault eviction or there is a disincentive, you can't evict a tenant because you're not going to be able to actually make a conversion of the building or merge units in the building or demolish the building in the future. so, it could actually work to preserving the tenants and the rental stock in those building. we're also making sure that where a property owner does want to make improvements to nonconforming units, that a building where there are conforming units, that they be able to make those conversions and to actually stabilize that overall property and making sure that we're preserving rental property in those units that are nonconforming to be able to become a higher standard, but also make sure there remains -- maintain their affordability and their housing stock as part of the rental housing stock. >> okay