to look at other subletting it's not going to solve our crisis. >> i'm with the san francisco tenants union one of the things i want to echo my concerns about enforcement there should be a measure to include the right of action for the nonprofits and citizens to enforce those laws it's clear that dbi and planning will not have the resources to do the enforcement to keep up with the registry and knock on people's doors i'll strongly encourage that and additionally the tenant protections being included supervisor wiener has an amendment to invite the landlords that will help the landlords to stop the evictions because the landlords will know they're using their rooms as rentals so it should be included the protection for the tenants. >> thank you. good afternoon. i'm sarah with the housing committee this legislation is not ready for at that particular time time we appreciate the intent to regulate this tremendous problem currently, the short term rentals are illegal i want to remind people what's on the table is to legalize it we have to be credibly careful but definition the rentals would ha

. >> my name is andrew the san francisco tenants union we have this chant we say air b and b you can't evict me the city folks say; right we have a housing crisis but really an eviction crisis sro tenants are being evicted because of air b and b right now short time rentals are illegal i'm shocked to see how many people are here public library to say they're urging air b and b service illegal. and, of course, here because air and b and b needs to be regulated but this legislation doesn't do enough. at the tenants union we're pushing for anymore accountability there's talks about the concerns of how this is regulated one thing that's not in the current legislation we're suing landowner which are using air b and b and no part in the legislation for the city to enforce if the dbi or planning commission didn't do the enforcement themselves. lastly there needs to be some protects for tenants being evicted by landlord to convert their buildings into air b and b tenants that used air b and b and the landlord are using this as an excuse to evict them we need more tenant protection around atten

violators because right now it is taking the city it's all right illegal and taken nonprofits like the tenants union to sue violators so endorse it and san francisco over 70 percent of residents are tenants. and most of the folks here i have not heard people saying hi, i'm a tenant of san francisco. we see tenants assessment who only rented their room for a weekend or maybe render it for two months and they're all getting evict. and if you make that legal you need to make it legal for tenants as well as homeowners and landlord for the legal other 70 percent of san franciscans. because right now tenants are getting evicted all the time for using the service even if they're actually sharing their homes. and then let's talk about the thousands of units that landlord have been taking off the market some of two and three bedroom apartment and let's talk about tenants that can't find a place not only eviction because rents are too high my friend who has a young child and shares the bedroom with the child because she can't move families of 4 lincoln in single room occupancy rooms because - >> thank you. th

you might want to talk to the tenants union if you're in san francisco. >> with the drought, can a landlord force you to keep your grass green? >> yeah. there is protection if you are the owner of a home and you are in a homeowners association. they can no longer tell a homeowner they have to keep their grass clean by law in the state of california. there is no such protection for renters. the only protection you have is if the water department says you're not allowed to water the grass, then you would contact your landlord and tell them i have been told to knock it off. because it's called a frustration of purpose in a contract. that is if you can't do it for some reason, the contract doesn't hold anymore. so for instance, if you are renting a house and a storm takes it away, you don't have to keep paying rent because the house isn't there anymore. so then requiring you to keep your grass green if the law or the water company won't give you the water, you have been frustrated to that purpose. >> pretty tricky with the homer owners association versus what east bay wants you to do. >> exactl

through a legislation progress we're actively engaged with a coalition of labor unions and housing activists and tenants and landlord and neighborhood groups and others we supporting a series of amendments that hopefully, will make it legislation workable and protect our housing stock and neighborhood character i wanted to speak about one of the amendments we talked about dollars to the city f that even supervisor chiu might agree with there's approximately somewhere between $5 million of taxes that have not been collected. and they're due from the hosting platforms that collect the taxes on behalf of the hosts that's airbnb, the treasurer, seis next year's past in april of 2012 a requirement to collect hotel taxes from their hosts and renot limited to to the city have not been followed you know how much the city needs the dollars airbnb is a $10 billion corporation can forward $20 billion >> before i go up i have two speakers i have (calling names) so i don't see leahy know here so jeff is the next speaker and i'm going to call 10 more speakers if i didn't call your name i respectfully ask you to sit s