i have been coste hawkins erected two years and the speculator russel flynn bought our building and harassed us out and our studio doubled in rent. there's no real tenant protections an it will inflate rents and kick everybody around the developments out. in the world and with the list i.p.o. and all the i.p.o.s coming they can alone buy all the homes in s.f. and it's a perfect place to park their money in real estate so the folks that will get all the housing being built are those who have way too much money in the first place and the homes are for people who need them. thank you for the opposition. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is cherry tu. i'm from lending tree report, san francisco has 100,000 vacant rental units and that is in every corner in san francisco. we need to change these 100,000 rental units into 100,000 occupied rental units. we need to row -- remove rent control and replace them with rental tenant agreements which is an urgent issue. to change our existing rental 100,000 unit and we should not think about and continue. [chime] ? >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>

committee, also here as an individual who's been evicted twice in two years by costa hawkins and russell flynn was the last major evictor who's flipping the apartments in order to get in higher paying tech employees. this is actually happening everywhere. cities across the world look to us to see what we're doing tangibly because we handle it first? germany is handling it because they're saying hey, google, you can't have your office here. we need to get bold here, this is serious. i'm going to back up jobs with justice and s.f. rising and their call to tax them. but we have to do more. we have to stop speculation right now. to do this, we need you to fight for rent control, for vacancy control. we need you to do something about the housing issue, starting with stopping the sweeps. the city is the evictor every day over and over and over for these people, many who used to be tenants, 21%, actually, when you were born and raised here. so we ask that you take a bold step and do something because these i.p.o. winnings are wage theft. they're making money overall of our data. folks growing up righ