san francisco. i worked with a volunteer tenants right counselor at the san francisco's tenants union. i counseled for the late miguel wooding, the founder of it and came to know him. i worked hashed to persuade him to do an evaluation of e.d.c. services, we are talking 201, 202, 203. i could never per said suede him. unfortunately, and let me emphasize, being stranded in the caribbean after 4 4 -- after 9/, my landlord filed actions against me. my landlord lost every action. later in 2005, e.d.c. put me in touch with jason who has stepped upside down to be the president. he's a very good lawyer and hope he will do a good job here. i hate to say the money is not sufficient. i went to e.d.c. after becoming disabled in 2005, was head of the department, and within a couple months my landlord, october 2015, began to refuse to accept my rent. eventually filed an un unlawful detainer lawsuit against me. i went to e.d.c. for help. not only did they give me no help but they sabotaged by jury trial instructions and refused to do anything to correct it. they submitted the wrong form. you have to

from the san francisco tenants union. thank you, supervisors. and thank you so much hillary ronen for putting this legislation together. every month in our coalition, the antidisplacement coalition, we review the biggest threats to tenants in the city. and almost without fail, buyouts makes the top of the list every month. and we've also known the buyouts are the primary way we are losing affordable housing in san francisco for years. this is why we introduced the original buyout legislation. it was actually hillary ronen was the aid who worked on it with us. so she was our natural choice to lead this effort to fix the gaps. what is a buyout? it's when a tenant sells their rights for the sake of a bit of money and a bit of certainty about the day they have to move. sells their rights. basically they are giving up the chance to enforce the rights they have that you all passed, that we passed as a city of san francisco to protect their housing and to protect this affordable housing for everyone here. i don't blame individual people who do that, bec

from the san francisco tenants union. thank you, supervisors. and thank you so much hillary ronen for putting this legislation together. every month in our coalition, the antidisplacement coalition, we review the biggest threats to tenants in the city. and almost without fail, buyouts makes the top of the list every

san francisco. i worked with a volunteer tenants right counselor at the san francisco's tenants union. i counseled for the late miguel wooding, the founder of it and came to know him. i worked hashed to persuade him to do an evaluation of e.d.c. services, we are talking 201, 202, 203. i could never per said suede him. unfortunately, and let me emphasize, being stranded in the caribbean after 4 4 -- after 9/, my landlord filed actions against me. my landlord lost every action. later in 2005, e.d.c. put me in touch with jason who has stepped upside down to be the president. he's a very good lawyer and hope he will do a good job here. i hate to say the money is not sufficient. i went to e.d.c. after becoming disabled in 2005, was head of the department, and within a couple months my landlord, october 2015, began to refuse to accept my rent. eventually filed an un unlawful detainer lawsuit against me. i went to e.d.c. for help. not only did they give me no help but they sabotaged by jury trial instructions and refused to do anything to correct it. they submitted the wrong form. you have to

from the san francisco tenants union. thank you, supervisors. and thank you so much hillary ronen for putting this legislation together. every month in our coalition, the antidisplacement coalition, we review the biggest threats to tenants in the city. and almost without fail, buyouts makes the top of the list every month. and we've also known the buyouts are the primary way we are losing affordable housing in san francisco for years. this is why we introduced the original buyout legislation. it was actually hillary ronen was the aid who worked on it with us. so she was our natural choice to lead this effort to fix the gaps. what is a buyout? it's when a tenant sells their rights for the sake of a bit of money and a bit of certainty about the day they have to move. sells their rights. basically they are giving up the chance to enforce the rights they have that you all passed, that we passed as a city of san francisco to protect their housing and to protect this affordable housing for everyone here. i don't blame individual people who do that, bec

from the san francisco tenants union. thank you, supervisors. k you so much hillary ronen for putting this legislation together. every month in our coalition, the antidisplacement coalition, we review the biggest threats to tenants in the city. and almost without fail, buyouts makes the top of the list every month. and we've also known the buyouts are the primary way we are losing affordable housing in san francisco for years. this is why we introduced the original buyout legislation. it was actually hillary ronen was the aid who worked on it with us. so she was our natural choice to lead this effort to fix the gaps. what is a buyout? it's when a tenant sells their rights for the sake of a bit of money and a bit of certainty about the day they have to move. sells their rights. basically they are giving up the chance to enforce the rights they have that you all passed, that we passed as a city of san francisco to protect their housing and to protect this affordable housing for everyone here. i don't blame individual people who do that, because the

i'm the district 8 tenant union and san francisco anti- discanti-dis-coalition me. he fails to meet the minimum requirements of the planning director and the experience set forth. i ask, how is it a group of intelligence commissioners tasked with choosing an be eligible candidate found rich h irhilles qualified? this is a serious violation of the equal employment opportunity guidance and completely unfair to women and minority candidates who are overlooked in the interest of selecting a white male with no qualifications for the job. furthermore, i feel abused and betrayed by there process. we came in ernest to tell the commission what qualities we wanted in a new planning director. >> if you, next speaker. >> i asked a city hall insider why did it take the fbi to do this, some things were an open secret for a long time and the response was, look to city hall, look to the mayor, look to the board of supervisors and the thing, the issue was no hands were raised, no questions asked, no challenges put forward. we're raising our hand and asking questions and we're challe

i'm the district 8 tenant union and san francisco anti- discanti-dis-coalition me. he fails to meet the minimum requirements of the planning director and the experience set forth. i ask, how is it a group of intelligence commissioners tasked with choosing an be eligible candidate found rich h irhilles qualified? this is a serious violation of the equal employment opportunity guidance and completely unfair to women and minority candidates who are overlooked in the interest of selecting a white male with no qualifications for the job. furthermore, i feel abused and betrayed by there process. we came in ernest to tell the commission what qualities we wanted in a new planning director. >> if you, next speaker. >> i asked a city hall insider why did it take the fbi to do this, some things were an open secret for a long time and the response was, look to city hall, look to the mayor, look to the board of supervisors and the thing, the issue was no hands were raised, no questions asked, no challenges put forward. we're raising our hand and asking questions and we're challe

managed and worked on lots of campaigns in san francisco and during that time, i've also been a flight a tenant for association of flight attendants, proud unionars. during that time, i've been working for campaigns that had the opportunity to learn a lot of skills from jane kim, alison collins, hi and now i feel pride to take all of these skills, all of this movement power that we've created and put it into the labor movement. i'm proud to organize flights across the nation at delta airlines. it's one of the last major airlines that is not unionized so i want to make sure in this last part of my speech, to give time and space to shed light on their struggle and lift up their voices and make sure we know we're stronger together and when he fight together and that's how we win. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee: ok, next up is supervisor peskin from district 5. thank you president yee and supervisor walton, thank you for putting together this amazing celebration today of black history month and thank you to everyone who took time out of their schedule to be here and to honor this amazing, amazing group of african american women we're hear

managed and worked on lots of campaigns in san francisco and during that time, i've also been a flight a tenant for association of flight attendants, proud unionars. during that time, i've been working for campaigns that had the opportunity to learn a lot of skills from jane kim, alison collins, hi and now i feel pride to take all of these skills, all of this movement power that we've created and put it into the labor movement. i'm proud to organize flights across the nation at delta airlines. it's one of the last major airlines that is not unionized so i want to make sure in this last part of my speech, to give time and space to shed light on their struggle and lift up their voices and make sure we know we're stronger together and when he fight together and that's how we win. thank you. [applause] >> supervisor yee: ok, next up is supervisor peskin from district 5. thank you president yee and supervisor walton, thank you for putting together this amazing celebration today of black history month and thank you to everyone who took time out of their schedule to be here and to honor this amazing, amazing group of african american women we're hear