that is the tenants who have come out to tell their stories and tenants ho have come out to our bedbug working group meetings to make sure that we're getting it right and the input that we're giving to the city and county is the input that reflects what tenants really feel and the experiences that they are going through and some of the solutions that they have come up to make this process work better. my name is josh vining. i'm a community organization with the sro collaborative at dolores street services. dolores street and the sro collaborative realized that tenants were confused and that landlords were confused and people weren't quite sure what their responsibilities were and their role in getting rid of bedbug infestations. so we started to meet in the mission just to start of make that clear who was responsible for. what and we started to identify some gaps that were in the system. and when we looked at what was happening in other parts of city and talked to some of our other community advocate groups we found there was confusion there as well. so to identify some of the gaps th

ted with the san francisco tenants union. with corporation suites and other short-term rentals we have lost well over a thousand rental units in san francisco. this is great legislation because it lets us hone in on those corporate rentals, but also gives us a real enforcement proviction that we can deal with the short-term rentals as well. we at the tenants union have been seeing this lap for a number of websites and we actually did some research on one of them vacation rental by owner, and we were able to identify a number of addresses. and surprising found there were a significant number of buildings which were being used as short-term rentals following ellis act evictions and other evictions. and found that most of the buildings on that site representing out multiple units with about a third of them being entire buildings where all units were being rented. so this has become really epidemic in san francisco and i commend the supervisors for taking the leadership on this. and helping us to end this epidemic. thank you. >>

that is only for tenants where the tenant can require the disclosure. the actual enforcement will still apply to tourist hotels. >> good, i'm glad the department of public health has that instruction book because the place i'm at they have no clue how to get rid of bed bugs and they are trying to sweep it under the rug, too. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> hello supervisors and thank you very much for this limition. my name is kim meadows and i have spoken many times and i thought i would do something a little different. good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite. whoever thought in our lifetime we would be afflicted by a childhood rhyme. you can clean and be, but you can't run and hide once these suckers get inside. don't stress too much or you will connect the dots. greedy slum lords don't care. it's not as if they live there. if [tkp*-r/] dph gave training in eradation, they would have shared the education. now is the time for some real legislation. thank you. >> i have one more speaker card, brenda washington and if you would like to speak,

community, the san francisco tenants union, as well as representatives of tenants in the golden gateway, as well as in other neighborhoods. i know also there have been neighborhood associations that have v addressed my office and reached out to me. i want to thank the affordable housing alliance in addition, to the san francisco tenants union for their support. i should also mention that i have been convening a grouch stakeholders to address a separate set of challenges, associated with residents renting out their apartments while they are on vacation or on business. in the area that is known as sharable housing better business bureau i want to mention that that is separate from the legislation that we have today. my overall goal is that with that other piece of legislation is that we will have hopefully a more comprehensive system to allow primary residents the flexibility to share space. but from my perspective, i think it's very -- it's very important that we first take the step to ensure that our residential housing is protected and that there is proper enforcement against illegal s

context for the tenant here. but it does trouble me that the rent was accepted and that there is this claim that there was a lack of knowledge because this property owner is not a professional land lord. so that is all troubling to me. unfortunately i think that the right thing to do is to remove the unit and perhaps the remedy lies elsewhere for the tenant here. >> i concur. the sentiments, i'm trying to think of the remedy. >> good tenant would have his rights with the rent board of the city. >> i know, i'm just trying to think of my other --. >> i don't think we can condition. >> no, no, no, i'm just trying to think of -- you know. it's not -- okay, forget it, i'm just thinking, that's all. yeah, i mean i think that the acceptance of rent makes it a harder case. i think, you know, at the same time if there is a one-year lease and the lease would be expired at that point in time anyway, then everyone would be within their rights but refusal to pay relocation costs makes me uncomfortable or at least coming with

it has to do with possible tenants not the actual names of tenants, but looking at the design, i'm led to believe and by the attention to elevators and the attention to stairways within the building, i would believe that you could entertain a variety of different tenants instead of having fewer larger tenants. is that true from what i see architecturally? >>> yeah, that's completely true. we envision this project could accommodate just about any tenant in san francisco. so, you could start with the existing tenants around the city who are in -- currently in high-rises. we certainly think this building will be terrific for them. the floors are set up in a way that corridors will allow the spaces to be broken up into smaller spaces for smaller tenants. and also for the large tech tenant that are in the news so much recently, we think this building will be attractive for them also because of the generous heights within the floors and the really terrific working environment that will exist within the building. and, so, we think tenants like those will also be interested. so, it's a buildin

that was put into that tenant improvement package. they benefited from a pretty serious financial commitment from fta to assist that project so the funding source was different. still serious challenges. >> that same building of working with existing infrastructure of that building to achieve certification else where in the building, so it does seem to have some ability to accommodate our needs. just wondering. supervisor kim. >> this is a question for john updike as well. i know we passed that policy fairly recently. if you could jog my memory. what triggers it. if not for buildings we own or temporarily leases on privately owned property that triggers the lead gold standard. >> we did have previously application of certain lead application applied to city owned buildings. you are correct. this new regulation both really i think it is fair to say increased the requirements across the board and included leased premises. that is new and something fairly unique to san francisco. i think we are seeing other municipalities follow that lea

"dear sir: i'm a tenant who always pays my rent on time.e tried--" henry, come on ! how am i supposed to read this letter with that thing in my face ? just one more take. and don't look at me. it's supposed to be completely natural and unrehearsed. "dear sir: i'm a tenant who always pays my rent on time. "i've tried to bring several problems to your attention. these include: "no water pressure unsafe elevators and dirty alleys. "i'm not asking for luxury only basic services. i know you're a busy man, but--" wait a minute. what ? did i spell something wrong ? it sounds like you're apologizing for writing this letter. you need to be more aggressive. what do you mean more aggressive ? like this. they aren't just "unsafe" elevators, they're "death traps." and the grounds aren't just "dirty." they're "infested with rats." katherine, can you do that part again ? henry, i know this video project is important to you, but we're-- it's more than just important, rosa. my grade in journalism depends on how good this documentary turns out. well, having

this legislation would give tenants peace of mind. managers would have to fulfill their obligations or be issued a violation from the dph and i would be on their tails to make sure that they do their jobs. as a tenants' right organizer i'm known in the mission district as the tro for the sro from hell. thank you. [ laughter ] >> thank you. i'm going to call a few more speakers. rd. >> good afternoon my name is michael harrington with the mission sro collaborative on dolores street and live in the dog patch area in the mission. i have been living there for over ten years and i have had bed bugs twice in that period of time in 2007 and in 2011. i'm a very clean person. but as we all know bed bugs don't discriminate. the last time i had bed bugs was off and on through 2011. i did everything that i was supposed to do. if the manager and the owner cared a little more i might not have had them for so long. plus, what can you do if other tenants don't speak up? in my case a couple other tenants complained and it was not taken seriously. i ha

prior tenants?" >> and the definition s as well. that is the summary of amendments introduced and we struck in the definition of "new development," we just struck 941 in order to make sure it's consistent across the entire document. it was something that was a slight oversight from the last amendments that we did. >> thank you so much for the summary. thank you and i know that we have our housing authority director mr. henry alvarez here with us as well. if there are no other presentations, let's open this up for public comment and we have a number of cards, espinola jackson, francisco decosta, leah otis martin from huntersview. [ reading speakers' names ]. >> i will let the tenants speak. so i will speak after them. >> people can come forward. thank you. >> hello there. my name is leo martin, i'm a tenant at huntersview. let me see, first of all, if you don't mind we would like to have the commission's meeting held in city hall for the people that can't make it. it could be televised and they would

you have accepted checks from the tenant since march? >> we did. >> so you knew there was an illegal unit. >> we knew there was unwarranted studio. this is only the second apartment building that we owned at the time. we've never had the case of an illegal unit. we, you know -- frankly, if someone had pointed out to us earlier that the situation was of that type, we would have acted sooner. but we are, you know, we are not real estate professionals, we hold this as an investment property. we actually thought unwarranted studios were, i didn't know the details of the law with regard to this. i didn't know that there was a 9 times penalty for not acting in the situation. i didn't know that there was, you know, there's a procedure you had to follow to make this happen. so we are as much a victim of the previous land lord as the tenant. we're acting in perfectly good faith and you follow the timeline, as soon as we met with our lawyer to understand the law, we obeyed it. >> thank you. >> other questions? >> mr. duffy, we haven't heard from y

the tenants have lost their voice. they have lost their voice and i hope that you support having it televised, so people can really see what is going on. who is who and who is playing the game on the tenants? i was very surprised when i went to the housing authority commission meeting last thursday to support it being televised. to see a commission, who was a supporter of the lenoir and when i look around and go to different places i see people sitting that did not support the community, but supported lenoir and the health problems that are going on in community. people are dying. they are dying over there. and the thing of it is that it seems as though the only thing anybody is concerned with is the big developers. you know, at one time being black living in fillmore and you said i'm going to hunters-point, you would say oh, no i'm not going over there, but guess what? they have learned since 1996 how sunny it is over there. no fog over there and we have got all of these developers, you know, coming into san francisco

part of is it is hoteling, but if you think about their traditional tenants and all the tenants in america get smaller by 30% without firing anybody, we wouldn't have to build any office buildinged for a long period of time. so what is remarkable about what is going on in the bay area, we have been able to absorb that contraction in the tenants, which jk put on the front page today and managed to overwhelm that with growth in technology and technology-related tenants, which is why what is going on in the bay area today is so extraordinary relative to what is going on in the rest of commercial real estate across the country. when we look at this, in practical terms, here is a prototypically way for a tenant in an office building. this layout allows people to reach a ratio of 110 square feet per person or over nine people per thousand square feet. this density, i think, is very important. it means a couple of things. first, it means that san francisco and other transit-rich locations will win over suburban greenfield sites, where projects are typically parked at three or 3.3 per thousand. be

i have represented tenants. at some point, i represented both because they have a common interest even in that. obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they work together if they can. and work together to save us -- to hire a single lawyer. they can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. sometimes, when the tenant is the small business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. it is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. would you do if you get one of these notices? if you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program -- which i recommend you do -- you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. we call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. there are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the ca

i want to thank all of the tenant advocates who work with my office and thank the city staff and other stakeholders who are here and in particular i want to thank my aide, amy chen, who worked with all of you to get the legislation to where it is today. colleagues i would like to ask for your support, so hopefully or we can move this to the board in short order. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you, president chiu. i did want to ask, if i could be a cosponsor of this measure? i think it's a great piece of legislation, but i had a couple of questions. i know aaron glenn's alter that brad paul referenced the title is surge in sf vacation rentals squeezes residents.". miss haas is quoted as saying there is a "rapid growth in vacation rentals at the time." and then quotes jack, the spokesperson for the city attorney's office saying, "that planning and dbi haven't been any cases forward." i'm wondering what is the problem there? why didn't we bring forth cases when we knew that 15% of golden gateway units, for example were being hotelized. i would like to know why it's taken to so

our tenant advocates are aware of that. one of the best things we can do of course is prevent bed bugs from coming into the units and we will continue to do that work. we're also hoping to more effectively leverage existing city resources around bed bugs. we currently have 16 healthy housing inspectors that we can more adequately leverage to use around education and also in bed bug abatement work. and we have two health inspectors specifically that work with sro buildings through dph. but i think that that feedback is good. we've gotten it from several groups we've worked with including the apartment association and we'll certainly continue that education work. so, thank you for that question. * >> any further discussion? colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first read. to roll call. >> supervisor campos, you're first on roll call for introductions. >> thank you very much, madam clerk. colleagues, i'd like to begin with a piece of legislation that i'm int