it is not the landlord's fault. if you want this to be more than just another wedge issue coming from city hall, make the tenant a responsible person. i suggested this to the doctor in a couple of weeks ago. it was rejected. nobody wants to touch the third rail in san francisco. i would also like some clarification on the amendment that was made today on the removal of refuse from buildings. does that mean that before it is removed, it has to be brought down to the ground floor? as the legislation was written last week, this will be a big issue, in chinatown, parts of north beach where you have virtuallyon the ground near the alleyways. i would like clarification on that amendment. >> my name is andrew long. i am a small property owner. i think this piece of legislation needs to be tabled and reworked. you are making landlords the sole responsible party for bedbugs for a $1,000 a day fine, which is draconian. the reality is, 99.9% of the time, bedbugs are brought into the location by the tenant. there is not much we

first, i would like to thank you, supervisor, the doctor, for confirming the fact that most landlord to what they can to maintain their buildings and keep them the vector-free, including doing what they can to prevent bedbugs. unfortunately, the landlord is not the person who is able to stop the bad bugs from entering the unit. it is important that we do this. it suggests the tenants within the unit has some responsibility. i do not know how that is going to work, we can have a discussion, but in the cases of the less than 1% that go over 90 days, i am not aware of any of our members who have had that circumstance. what they have run into his the on cooperation of the tenants to be able to deal with it. our fear is we are going to run into that, we are going to bump into the tenant who refuses to let them into the unit to do what needs to be done. but then the landlord will be saddled with this thousand dollar fine. you can imagine, if a landlord is truly trying to work with a tenant who is not willing to be a responsible party, it would seem to us that there would still be a $1,000 f

landlords, as spike lee would say, do the right thing. not a day goes by that i do not get phone calls from tenants about landlords ignoring requests for repairs and treatment of past and in station. the really disturbing aspect to these complaints and i had conducted a survey of clients whose health problems were directly related to their housing. over 75% of the survey households, there was at least one minor offspring present in the household. personally, i know of one instance involving a single mother and her child where the mold and mildew were so president that this young mother and after this declaimed that was not his responsibility. adding insult to injury, vilifying the victim by suggesting that tenant was at fault because of the length of for showers and the practice of leaving the bathroom door open. thank you. supervisor chiu: next speaker. >> my name is beneath johnson [inaudible] >> please poll your microphone closer. >> last year i was going through issues with fire damage, the electrical hazards, and mold, with no acknowl

what we would ask for is the opportunity to address that part of it so that it is not just the landlord's responsibility. the tenant has some responsibility, too, in this effort. >> next speaker? >> good morning, supervisors. i am the executive director of the housing rights committee of san francisco. i, too, am surprised -- i am surprised to hear so much talk about bedbugs. if you read the ordinance, "bedbugs"comes up in only one place, defined as a nuisance along with rodents and other pests. this ordinance is about overall enforcement of public health of violations. in housing, it is not about bedbugs. that is just one of the many issues that this issue would cover. we are so tired of hearing complaints about mold and mildew, moisture, things that have direct health impact on people, not just with as much, but those who are immune- compromised. even roaches, you may not know, but they can contribute and exacerbate asthma. these amendments will strengthen the code enforcement on these types of issues. this talk about $1,000 a day, that is making a mountain out of a molehill. the truth

i think that the first person that wants to know about a complaint is the landlord or property owner. they want a chance to get in there and fix it in all cases. >> typically, what is the range of? >> usually with more of it -- ordinary mail, we will send a notice and it will be there within a week. in some cases the male is returned. that is why we want this confirmed. we communicate with landlords on an annual basis. this would not be new communication. we would simply ask them to verify on an annual basis. the contact number for emergencies is new. we think that by contacting the responsible party to let them know that this is in contest, they will appreciate that. and that we are making this change so that contact is not 1 per unit, but rather for every building. supervisor chiu: let's go into up -- public comment at this time. if other individuals wish to testify, each speaker has up to two minutes to provide comments. supervisor avalos: i have a few cards. [reads names] please come forward. >> hello. i am a resident of the bayview hunters point district. i am here today to speak

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that's the landlord's fault? so should the landlord be find a thousand dollars a day for not fixing up these. >> that's the only way to get the money is to get them to do what they are supposed to do. >> down the street the hilton, $800 a night, has bedbugs. so it's not in every room. every time the x "terminator" comes to this room. >> reporter: just by talking to people in the same building you get different stories and views. it would be hard to pin down any particular landlord unless he or she was one of the worst and that is who this legislation is really aimed at. the measure passed its first vote today here at city hall and now goes on to the full board later next week. in san francisco, mike sugerman, cbs5. >>> popular facebook aps leaking your private information. who is questioning hold of your personal data. >>> and a push to get people, to get on board b.a.r.t., the big prizes you could win just for taking the train. >>> cheers, the different kind of brews starbucks pa reese as the have just started s

the landlords own knees and they did not have to pay these bonds -- the landlords own these and they did not have to pay these bonds back. san francisco has roughly six and a half billion dollar annual budget. the infrastructure is always the last thing. you wait till it crumbles rather than fixing it well over funding some other things. we don't think that those people will be charged to pay for those bonds should have to pay to retrofit privately owned buildings. >> what are the costs and benefits to san francisco citizens if this was to pass? >> this is usually about double for the bonds. a $46 million bond, this will be close to 100 million by the time they're done paying interest and everything else on it. the benefit is that the buildings are retrofitted but they should be retrofitted by income at the city has been tell -- that the city has. this is very high for any city. >> thank you. i am now with the deputy director of the urban planning and research center. why do you support this measure? >> the reason that i support the measure is that it is very difficult to think about

these landlords were in the minority and the landlord of cottage where nie family lived was not amonghem. rate payer books for 1848 is missing. the book for 1849 is in worse condition than the earlier books. theate book for 1849 is torn and muddy and appears to have blood stains on the pages. as if this book is telling me what happened that awful year. i search for james lacy's name and find it gone along with the other tenant and it is town lands as well. [applause] >> i think on that note i will read a poem, which is my book among other things my quest to discover the family's connection or my connection to that history. and what happens there is the pursuit and the logical seeking after those signs. those material signs baptismal records and there is happenstance. that's what happened to me once when i went to ireland i staid at a b and b. there are a zillion every other house is a b and b. i hit on the one b and beshgs where the owner said, your last name is to bein i know where all the to beins came to ireland. i said, i'm all ears. this poem goes into that and the last part is a

they can choose to say -- stay and ask the landlord to change the lock.hey can choose to leave and terminate the lot -- terminate the lease without financial repercussions which is a huge victim. >> within 30 days? >> yes, but they do not have to continue to pass the term of the lease. >> what was happening before this was on the book? >> landlords were pursuing them in court and suing them for breaching the provisions of their lease. but the landlord was successful, they would have monetary judgments entered against them for the amount of money that would have otherwise been do under the lease. >> a lot of times they were forced out for something that the abuser did. courts in domestic violence situations, this often occurs. >> you see all of these things happening and this is a really good law that is having a great response. >> they were getting legal and financial repercussions. it was causing victims to stay in abusive situations because they could not leave. >> it was even more of a burden. let's shift gears and talk about how you're working with yo

is that the landlord's fault? so should is lapped lord be find a thousand dollars a day for not fixing up these new sans violations. >> that's the only way to get the money to get them to do what they are supposed to do. >> down the street, the hilton, $800 a night has bedbugs. so it's not in every room. every month they come to this room. >> reporter: just by talking to people in the same building you get different stories and different views. it would be hard to pin down any particular landlord unless they were one of the worst. that's who this legislation is really aimed at. the supervisor's committee passed this nuisance fine ordinance today and it goes to the full board next week. >> yeah, it's a quality of life issue and the people who live there certainly deserve to have a better quality of life. that one room doesn't even have plaster on the walls. >> reporter: i'm sorry, yeah, can't hear you. it didn't have what? >> plaster on the walls. >> reporter: right. that was not a bad room, not a good room. but he

the landlord admits they're there. why he's waiting to call an exte >>> an apartment building filled with bedbugs. the landlord admits they are there. >>> a lot of democrats are dodging the commander in chief, but there is still one obama welcomed everywhere. the appeal of the first lady. >>> busted with campaign signs that were not his, why a bay area politician says he was just upholding the law. >>> and shoes that claim to make the dreams of basketball players come true. we put them to the test. >>> good evening. pretty hard to sleep tight when you know those bedbugs might bite. here in the bay area and all across the country, those little blood suckers appear to be on the rise. the infestation is spreading. >> those are where the bedbugs bite you and they leave a trail of your blood as they are going back to their nest. >> reporter: she has been sleeping with bedbugs and she has the scars to prove it. >> it leaves those marks on your skin. >> reporter: like blood trails a long her mattress seem shows where they hid

says that argument doesn't work and if that iran offset the only ones who benefit from it are the landlords the drug lords the end definitely not afghan peasants an afghan peasant household makes seventy dollars a year for growing poppies and as mr von off said international forces should be after the landlords in afghanistan because they leave peasants with no choice but growing poppies and being slaves to these drug lord drug barons and in the last nine years of war in afghanistan that policy brought nothing but death. and if you'd like to wish the full interview with the head of russia's federal drug control service you can always do go website. a militant hideout is the subject of a special operation in the russian republic of cover jean about korea to have at least ten gunmen have already been arrested by security forces in the region policemen have also found a truck with explosives near a mine where the gunmen are trapped. in the reach of. the federal forces have started their salt on the mine after the militants ignored all demands to surrender and opened fire right now they are tra

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and also, is there a guarantee of some type of pass through that would limit the landlord from just totally turning over those types of businesses because they would want to after the retrofit rerent it to a much higher paying tenant? any discussion on those impacts or how that education could be done? >> these questions have come up, and there has been discussion. and i think issues that deal with residential rent control are ones that properly fall within the rent stabilization boards' per view. my understanding is that when an expense is mandatory, that the owners are allowed to pass through a certain percentage of that per year over a period of time. however, there's limits. in terms of how effective that really is. a very large number of buildings in san francisco are already at market. and so even if you're allowed to pass through an additional 10% that puts your rent over market. and then you can't rent those units, you know. with the supply in demand controls over what the market sets, sometimes you're just in the room to charge more. so that affects probably more than half of the u

argument doesn't work and his victory of an offset the only ones who benefit from it are the landlords or the drug lords and definitely not afghan peasants and afghan passon household makes seventy dollars a year for growing poppies and this mystery of an offset international forces should be after the landlords in afghanistan because they believe patents with no choice but growing poppies and in the last nine years of war in afghanistan that policy brought nothing but deaths afghan drugs killed more than a million people worldwide. watch the full interview with drugs g. victor even off on our website r.t. dot com and now to some other news in brief for a suspected cholera outbreak in rural haiti has killed at least one hundred thirty five people while hundreds more are seriously ill the stream of those needing treatment is overwhelming hospital staff and facilities doctors are now waiting for test results to confirm the cause of the infections many people still live in unsanitary conditions after january's massive earthquake which killed some three hundred thousand people. typhoon meg