from san francisco apartment association. i want to thank you supervisor chiu and the rest of his sponsors. i think this election is a good piece of legislation to create an migration to a difficult problem. i want to encourage this to allow private owners to step in and help anti amending that law so we can help out where there are no fault evocation to help getting people stabilized with unit for a year or two. i hope you employ that creativity to help us all house people that need to be housed. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please ted from san francisco tent e tenancies. this is a good piece of legislation one person getting evicted has no place to go. it, it's an epidemic when tenant are being evoked and having to sign up for huge long waiting lists. the lee's were applying for tenant space and only had one year and were not close to getting a place. the people needing residence are in need we need to keep people in their homes as opposed to trying to help them out after the fact. we need to stop those

from san francisco apartment association. i want to thank you supervisor chiu and the rest of his sponsors. i think this election is a good piece of legislation to create an migration to a difficult problem. i want to encourage this to allow private owners to step in and help anti amending that law so we can help out where there are no fault evocation to help getting people stabilized with unit for a year or two. i hope you employ that creativity to help us all house people that need to be housed. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please ted from san francisco tent e tenancies. this is a good piece of legislation oners

you know, within the land lord community many responsible players and i know that the san francisco apartment association has been helpful in assisting some individual families. i think the speculators that supervisor mar is talking about in many respects are making everyone look bad and i think we have to figure out, you know, what the real reason for this is. i will also point out that relative to where we are compared to other parts of the country, if you look at the front page of the examiner today it shows that the new numbers that have been reported in other cities demonstrate that san francisco has the nation's highest rents, even higher than new york city. that's where we're living today and so i think it's important to provide that context. before i open it up to public comment i want to give a representative from assembly member ammiano's office the opportunity to come and say a few words. i know that assembly member ammiano, who has been working with us on this issue, could not be here today, he is working in sacramento so i would ask cecelia trent to please come. >> thank you, supervisors, fo

and i key part will be the financing and patrick along with the san francisco apartment association and dbi, are hosting this special workshop at fort mason on october 23rd. and so, if any of you have time, that is between 6:00 and 8:00. in the evening. and a number of financial institutions will be there to essentially advice building owners what options they might have in order to manage the retrofitting cost. and the only other thing that i guess that i will report on is the we did make a presentation last week, at the government audit and over site committee, this is the committee that looks at all of the grand jury reports and as you know, we turned ours into the presiding judge on time and i have not had any communications from the court, relative to that, but, the board committee did make some recommendations in his resolution, and essentially, following up, again, on our bpr program. and which i believe that you may remember from our own response, that the director is planning to reconvene, the steering committee, and to take a look and see where exactly we are in the inplimenta

apart the two peaks. >>> the national rifle association is partnering with a group of retired police officers to challenge a new san franciscotrol law. it is set to take effect on december 8th. anyone caught carrying an ammunition clip with more than ten bullets would be charged with am demeanor -- would be charged with a demeanor. >>> san francisco's district attorney says cell phone carriers are fighting efforts to install antitheft software on smart phones. he is working with samsung to create a kill switch would which would make any stolen or lost smart phone impossible to use. but cell phone carriers are trying to kill the kill switch plan. he says those companies are fearing it will cut into the money they make from the cell phone insurance program. >>> an investigation under way into unemployment data and whether it was manipulated before the 2012 presidential election. as ktvu kyla campbell reports from our washington, d.c. newsroom this was all sparked by a newspaper column. >> reporter: dave, a new york post columnist wrote a sharp drop in the jobless rate in 2012 might have been caused by census bureau workers mak