with our office and the tenant takes the money and runs. and this legislation didn't apply to those paents tenants it's difficult for us to track those. it so you would their private agreement and if those people are included your double dipping because you've been cut a you sum of money and you'd be eligible for the relocation for the housing >> those are not as high for the market but they're separate agreements fairly entered into. >> and my question along the lines if you have a hybrid that some of the tenants in the building agree to this and they've begun and taken the money and agent tenant won't so the ellis act is revoked. you mined is it would not >> thank you that makes sense. and i'm sure there's a means test. there are many folks in rental housing that are making substantial amounts of money they go outside of san francisco and buy homes. this is someone who would be eligible for the avon our normal income test >> you're correct commissioner they have to satisfy all the inadmissible application rules. thanks that makes sense. a

a few of the tenants have left by not a whole lot of tenants have left. i was contacted by the tenant and we immediately went in and started to organize the tenants and said they had the right to fight and they started knocking on doors and encouraging each other to stay and a fight. we have a meeting and we you filled in their rights and as much as & we knew about dbi although that kept changing. i got all the information i could. i want to add here 1067 is in the same situation as 1049. there's a code violation against 1067 for illegal use of residential space but my fear is we could be looking something although i hope the landlord has learned >> who initiated the practice. >> i understand there was a call. the complaints start in 07. the owner evicted a tenant and then the tenant didn't pay the rent and then claimed to their department and started the process >> okay. thank you. what we'll do is go to public comment >> thank you perfect. >> first speaker mr. shaw. >> thank you randy shaw. i think this is the first time i've spoken to this commission i

-- sarah short from the san francisco tenants union. it's very validating and what both the report showed and what we all know to be true is that indeed it is a crisis. it is an epidemic and we have no time to wait before we take measures to curb this greed that's wrecking havoc on our community. in relation to what ted said prior, i really appreciate reading that there's a coalition forming to deal with the ellis act on the state level. that absolutely needs to happen and i wanted to acknowledge that. but i also want to also reinforce that we need to continue on the path of doing everything we can locally as well to create solutions that can at least help mitigate the impact when people do get evicted or make it much harder to ellis or to disincentivize the evictions that are taking place through use of the ellis act and again a coalition of tenant groups have presented some of those ideas and some are being taken up and we read about them in the paper this morning. these ideas include the extended relocation payments, making it harder

it's first and last for the protection of the tenants the tenants want a good water leak believe. the windows are being replaced to upgrade them this is done for the bin of the tenants that were it's ironic to have the tenants bring this appeal. in terms of safety and that sort of thing. i submit the asbestos report those areas of work are regulated by dbi. they have requirements for how led and asbestos are handled. they required special contractors to handle it. the owner is a professional management company. they own a number of property buildings and their xirnd in the work. they're not a mom and pop operation. they have standard safety codes on all their work. there's no safety issue for the tenants. oh, with that i'll be happy to answer any questions. i also have the permit holder here if you want to question him about anything >> is it your clients position that none of the work that's permitted will require many vacancy or temporary relocation. >> yes. >> and the other question i have and may not be i'm just curious. the - these - the work that's on the permits to be perfo

and which is one of the frustrating things, when you are talking to tenants >> because the tenants assume that the building owners insurance policy is going to cover their losses. >> and i just wanted to say that since you repeated it several times that there is no city funding allocated for what you are doing and the cost of hotel vouchers has gone up like threefold of what your budget in the previous years? >> yes. >> and you said that the good samaritan law has been helping some, but for the lowest income and the most vulnerable people and it is really not as helpful. and what could we do and i know that janan, from the department are here but what could do to strengthen the law? >> that is an interesting challenge because what i have found is that the people that fall into that category are not living in building and we don't have an existing lease, they are not a family or a group of people that are always stable in their relationships. we find that a lot of people that are, you know, day laborers, or people that are you know, students, people that are living more marginally than oth

in conclusion, we all know that this is a tenant city and we'll do all that we can to protect our tenants. thank you. >> thank you and thank you, assembly member ammiano, for your leadership. i'm going to call out some speaker cards and i would ask if you could please line up on your right, the aisle, our left, and please come up as your name is being called and given the large number, and we have standing room only, i have been informed by the clerk of the board that we have an overflow room, room 263. so speakers andrew long, victor flores, jose chan, michael lyon, ben caty, hennie kelly, beverly upton, jackie naylor, please come on up. >> yes, my name is andrew long, i might possibly be the only rental provider in this room at the moment. i have been coming it these kinds of hearing for over 15 years. different supervisors, different faces, but same issue. the reason we're having an uptick in these kind of no cause evictions is because of 30 years of bad housing policy. we have seen a continuous ratcheting up of the rent control law on owners, especially small owners including the exte

and tenants are going to have to go out and find the developer and apply. that will create >> sir, your time is up. >> any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner wu. i'm sorry >> one more. >> my apologizes. absolutely. >> i really question giving preference not because there is no not a terrible node for those people to be helped but because there's so many people who have been waiting already. i've known a woman for example she won the lottery she'd been living from her daughter she doesn't get along with and i was evicted myself i'm not saying this senate well intended but we need to do other things to make it harder to evict people under the ellis act but we need supply. we're meeting not increasing the supply. when he was evicted for example, it was a very unfair situation. the developer it would the ellis act he was 0 going getting rid of everyone in the believe to go get more money. i had 89 evict noticed and he wrought a

. >> good evening, with the housing klen clinic on behalf of the tenants of 1980 golden gate and lion street, and so we sought to revoke this permit because the work seemed to piece meal soft story work and now there is an attempt to expand the scope of the permit to include the soeft story work, and we are not opposed to that, because it makes sense to do both together. and the building definitely needs work. we are not disputing that. the dispute is that today for the first time that we have heard that all of the tenants have to move out of the property and prior to today, it had just been the down stairs unit and the story that is being presented is that there is certain for the safety of the tenants but that is under mined by the fact that they have owned the property for over a year. there is connection between the urban green and the prior owner and we have the same engineer and we have the same law firm, and so we don't believe that these are truly brand new people to this property. for the past eleven years that i have been involved with this property, they have done nothing t

>> but really it relate to how long the tenants feel they are going to be displaced? is that not the case. >> it all goes back to the tenants yes. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> i think that there are a few discreet issues that need to be cleared up. firstly, i think that it is important to note that this is a new owner of the building and what happened in the last 11 years, is a different issue. this owner has come in and is trying to fix a very dangerous situation. i can address the issue, of notices posting, and i have photos and i can share and talk about all of that. but, i think that it has been noted that this is really an issue of the tenantcies and the rent board. and if more time is needed than the 2 and a half months than we forecast if they need more time in the three months, that is under the rent board jurisdiction and they will have to ask the rent board for permission to do that so there is a whole other process that will have a hearing that is just not an issue at this point. and we really do think that it is going to be two and a half

a few of the tenants have left by not a whole lot of tenants have left. i was contacted by the tenant and we immediately went in and started to organize the tenants and said they had the right to fight and they started knocking on doors and encouraging each other to stay and a fight. we have a meeting and we you filled in their rights and as much as & we knew about dbi although that kept changing. i got all the information i could. i want to

move out of their unit in other words, a tenant in the future would have the protection if the tenant after receiving a ellis act is fortunate enough not to be evicted arrest on page 5 this is to add that the board of supervisors shall hold a subject hearing within 3 years in which the rent board shall report incomes for at that particular time preference system. the purpose is to educate us who

i'm manuel rodriguez i'm a tenant for 3 and a half years. following up on that last comment i'm not to be there do i tomorrow and let dbi look at the unit. we want to provide access so maybe they can take a look at and see what the changes the landlord is going to have to make to the point the tenants can stay. i'm thankful for annoying looking at this. i was - the landlord said on the permit that was issued i looked at the permit and i don't know if it applies to my unit because 6 units that the landlord had applied for a conversion for 48 unit and the permit says 6 unit so legally do they know does that apply to my unit. can the dbi look at the permit is there something that dbi can do to look at that and say you may be that permit was 6 units and it's incorrect we need to revoke it so a permit can be issued >> it's a good question. first of all, the conversion they have a legal use on the sixth floor. the latest permit is to remove all the operations. that one i suggest from if you want to appeal it to the appeal board and is it wently? w

i think we're all sympathetic to the tenant.view is i don't know what alternative those repairs have to happen if we overturn this permit you that's not going to create a good situation for the tenants either. there's nothing pertinent to the permit itself. the concerns i'm sympathetic to them bullet i believe they lie within the per view of the board not within the board of appeals that we don't have the recommendations we can impose to i'd the situation speaker i wouldn't vote to over turn this permit >> there are ways to aid the time period for the work go to be performed and we heard from inspector duffey any concerns oh, hose not here like asbestos and lead can be raised and inspected and have someone come out and if that has an impact. there are health concerns. noise mitigation measures i think would be addressed through time limitations on the construction. that's one way it's within our jurisdiction. i think it's - yeah. i think the issue of the actual need for the permits themselves is difficult to get around >> no, i

move out of their unit in other words, a tenant in the future would have the protection if the tenant after receiving a ellis act is fortunate enough not to be evicted arrest on page 5 this is to add that the board of supervisors shall hold a subject hearing within 3 years in which the rent board shall report incomes for at that particular time preference system. the purpose is to educate us who this is legislation that is working and if we need to make adjustment we can go forward and do that. let me ask the city attorney and department is there any thing else you want to add to those comments >> mr. chewing i'm with the mayor's office housing development. the only item that might be taken up for additional discussion we are that going to clarify the language in the proposed legislation regarding the requirement that tenant can violative if their suffering from a life-threatening disease they can live in the opt up to 5 years. this is for our office because it seems as if that standard is slightly different from the standard currently administered by the rent board for people disable

it's first and last for the protection of the tenants the tenants want a good water leak believe. the windows are being replaced to upgrade them this is done for the bin of the tenants that were it's ironic to have the tenants bring this appeal. in terms of safety and that sort of thing. i submit the asbestos report those areas of work are regulated by dbi. they have requirements for how led and asbestos are handled. they required special contractors to handle it. the owner is a professional management company. they own a number of property buildings and their xirnd in the work. they're not a mom and pop operation. they have standard safety codes on all their work. there's no safety issue for the

matching that because the tenant and they may be doubled up and i am not able to say, well, you know, there are nine people living in the studio, and we refer them on to another landlord. >> next is dan laury and he is the deposit director and we also have the manager of public affairs as well. >> dbi inspects the fire damaged building, and the larger buildings we will get a call from the san francisco fire department and a lot of the smaller buildings were not called out on the larger fires that were call out. and we worked with the fire department, and to process the notification. and to assist on the call. and we have emergency response service, and we have a group of inspecters around 24-hour call that could be called out at any time of the evening or any time during the day to respond to the fire. we post the buildings with the violation, and to the fire is extensive and the engineering and we have to issue that with the notice of violation and we try to interact with the people to encourage them to get a permit. we initiate the code in the process if we don't get the compliance

we don't want any of the tenants here displaced, you know. so a good position to take would be, you know, such as you can be cooperative to let the inspectors be there to do the inspections like the light issues. the window issues have been addressed there is an answer to that >> okay. thank you >> good morning. i'm manuel rodriguez i'm a tenant for 3 and a half years. following up on that last comment i'm not to be there do i tomorrow and let dbi look at the unit. we want to provide access so maybe they can take a look at and see what the changes the landlord is going to have to make to the point the tenants can stay. i'm thankful for annoying looking at this. i was - the landlord said on the permit that was issued i looked at the permit and i don't know if it applies to my unit because 6 units that the landlord had applied for a conversion for 48 unit and the permit says 6 unit so legally do they know does that apply to my unit. can the dbi look at the permit is there something that dbi can do to look at that and say you may be that permit

i will provide a quick report on tenant displacement in san francisco. we were asked by supervisor campos to review tenant displacement and he requested rates of change in property change, rent burden and also requested demographic profile of people evicted. just a quick snapshot so this goes back to when the rent board first started reporting evictions and here's some detail from 1999 through 2013 on evictions, all no fault evictions which includes lfx evictions and for cause evictions, which includes those where a tenant is evicted for not paying the rent or being a nuisance of some type. you will see a sharp increase of he will -- ellis act, the year by the way the rent board tracks is through february 28 so when it says 2013, that's rent board year of 2013 which starts march 1st of 2012 and goes through the end of february of this year. you can see there have been some peaks of ellis act evictions in the past, 2000 and 2001, that was the end of what was called the dot com boom when rents and prices of real estate were very high and escalating very qu

the exiting tenant moved out he was a long-term resident over 25 years. this particular roof was only accessible from unit one and so it was during the process of that small rare that we discovered significant dry rot and that's what started this process >> thank you. thank you >> okay. thank you >> mr. t. >> this permit was approved over the creditor by the staff because didn't require public notification. >> mr. duffey. >> commissioner the building permit seemed to be approved properly it was for stucco replacement and the windows on the issues regarding the lead or asbestos we require those measures to be taken to protect you see the north open the scaffolding they have to do the proper cleaning up. we would send out someone from the asbestos department and but i don't see anything on the permit that deals with code issues >> public comment on this item. please stipulate forward >> hello. my name is linda i live in apartment 3 on fulton street. i moved in july 1st of this year. when we first viewed the apartment the landlord said it would be two weeks

do besides simply get tenants renters insurance and earthquake insurance, what else do you think tenantsdo? >> i think it's really important to know if they happen to be in the building where is the safest place for them to go when the shaking starts. if they're out of the building, whats' their continuity plan for connecting with family? they should give their emergency contact information to their resident manager so that the resident manager knows how to get in touch. and have emergency supplies on hand. the tenants should be responsible to have their extra water and flashlights and bandages and know how to use a toilet when there's no sewage and water flows down. and the owners of the building should be proactive in that regard as well. >> so, george, thank you so much for joining us. that was really great. and thanks to spur for hosting us here in this wonderful exhibit. and thank you for joining us so, same time next week? well, of course. so you can't save money? it's easy as pie! brown bag your lunch instead of going out. six dollars saved timed 5 days a week times ten years is 2

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