and just to give a few facts, sro's are home to about 30,000 people in san francisco. and many of them don't have private bathrooms and share toilet and bathing facilities with other residents. this law really is again for single stall, for shared rest rooms and context of hotels, it would be the bathrooms in the lobby or some area not within someone's hotel room. and this is not only an issue that supports transgender communities, it's for people with disabilities, parents with child of a different gender and frankly all women who people who resist the long lines in women's restaurants and short lines in men's rest rooms but largely about safety and fairness for gender non conforming and transgender individuals and we hope you'll support this law and help us move it forward. thank you. >> thank you for the presentation. any other speakers on this? >> with he he have a community member. >> thank you. open to public comment. >> good morning jordan davidson. >> thank you for your patience by the way. >> i sit on the single room occupancy task force where at our june 17th

sro's fall within a gray air what. they are not addressed by the short-term rental legislation.o, we have been tackling those issues as they come up and tackling them pretty aggressively as well as some of the other -- cross pollinated enforcement issues. we have a good working relationship with dbi on those and that's something we will also continue to monitor diligently. the nice part about being able to monitor and do enforcement at the platform level is it does free up enforcement staff time to go after those kind of cases, those more nuanced, complex cases where you want to get folks from department of building inspection, other agencies involved and really tackle a problem comprehensively. >> supervisor peskin: as to the abuse of corporate rentals, how's that working? >> abuse of corporal rentals in terms of -- >> supervisor peskin: 30 days or more but being listed as short-term rentals? i assume they all come off immediately because the residency issue trumps. >> exactly. those should have already come off. and if a listing like that on airbnb toggles to less, it will com

we had the opportunity to visit sros in chinatown. and to see, as was said, the small 8 by 10 spaces where multiple children and their families live struggling to have the privacy, the space needed to study and sometimes to sleep. and again and again you see the situations in our city. and it is imperative on us as a school district to do everything this we possibly can with our resources, with our land, with the staff, to make sure that we are working to end family homelessness, at the same time that we're supporting the young people in our schools who are directly impacted. that's what this resolution is about. i want to thank kevin truity, mary richards. this is just the beginning of moving from a situation that was based on compliance of saying this is how many homeless students we have and this is what we do, to bringing everything we have to ensure their success. changing resources with school sites with higher percentages of homeless students. making sure the staff have the ability to train how to get families into housing and

sometimes we also see kind of the same players out there not just in terms of the sro's but short-term rental violations generally. and we can provide that sort of intel to them as well. >> supervisor peskin: i think it's important there be one central place where all of this is tracked. even if it's not within your purview to enforce. to the extent that there is transparency between dbi and ostr, it would be important that ostr tracks that data. >> certainly. one other item i wanted to touch upon -- this comes up as a question a lot. how do people rent out their units? so, people have the option of renting out what we call hosted rentals where they're presented in unit. they can do that 365 days a year. they have the host present and it's sort of considered to be a low impact type of rental situation because it's going to be rented on an individual bedroom to a single person or couple or things like that. and then folks also have the option of doing up to 90 unhosted nights per year. so, we get required quarterly reporting. each quarter from the host. they report data to us that gives

many of the families we serve still live in sros. so we need to make sure that we have a range of opportunity that helps them and that he can stabilize organizations that help them to flourish as safe havens. we've served the community for 50 years and serve 100 people daily in a 1,000-square-foot space. we need to make sure that we invest in our schools. 50% of our youth are underperforming in math, science, reading, and we need to make sure that we have quality services to the school that exists. vmd also has no programming. it's great that we have something in there for them and that it's consistent with the park that was here. the central soma park, it can be extremely beneficial, especially since it's across the street from the middle school, but we need to be sure that it's for our families. project sponsors have met and we need to make sure that that conversation is ongoing and that it represents us. >> thank you, carla. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i want to say thank you to jane kim, for taking the leadership role and the

to preserve the housing that is there, also the sros. that it would be great to have funding that is specified for these purchases, as well as any affordable housing that is to be built, if there is no more land yet because it's been used for other things. that becomes a problem. so in terms of securing a cultural district, a community that's been there for many, many years, to do all that we can to preserve what is there so that the people can continue to grow their community, rather than have it destroyed. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisors, for holding this meeting. i'm raquel odondis. i thank the planning department for the presentation and glad to hear that the plan is to keep what's great in soma. for us, what is great about soma for decades is the seniors and immigrant workers of that been fighting to make the neighborhood livable, for everyone. and this is before the city and planning and the whole region has come to focus on soma as a place to build this housing. so we hope to keep the existing community

. >> there's a lot of seniors that live in the sro's across the street, and they're scared. >> scared of what? >> scared of complaining. >> so that's why the supervisors, sometimes they have to write a letter at the end of the day to work with their constituents. >> i would love -- >> okay. let's just stop it here. let's get us the data. get everything that we think we need to protect yourself, to protect the neighbors, and to also protect the code. >> can i work directly with you, commission, to give me specifics on what you guys need because last time i was here, you guys told me to come with a plan and what we have done, and you guys told me that's what you needed. now you're telling me that i need data, and this is not -- >> it's not complete. you told me -- i got an e-mail from kevin. i got kind of a memorandum from ollie. >> pretty detailed e-mail from kevin. >> no, because he doesn't tell me what decibel he played the music on the inside. [ inaudible ] >> you guys ask for a plan -- >> hold on, hold on. hold on. can we have one speaker at a time. commissioner lee, did you want t

. >> host: instead of truant officers dehave -- sros. >> host: school resource officers. they're police officers. >> guest: right, and disproportionately in schools who the kids are black and brown. and whole series of other things. this book is not about the fines and fees. it's about women who call the police, 9-1-1, because they're in danger, domestic violence, and the law -- the chronic nuisance ordinance is called, that's the police tell the landlord that the landlord must throw her out because she is a chronic nuisance, and we have this -- who? what is that? come on. i want people to know what these problems are, and secondly, i want people to know that we can push back, and some of us, people like the lawyers and the leaders of the judiciary and the people in the legislature and so on, but some of us, the people, we had a terrific pushback recently in the congress on the affordable care act and medicaid, and stopped -- i hope we're finished -- we'll see -- put people rows up and said you will not take away this coverage we have. well, we need to do that. we're begi