wet ellis act first went through i worked as a counselor for the tenants rights union and i am still in shock it could have ever gone through. if anything, if they are going to keep it they should add that anybody has kicked out by an ellis act that the people who are kicked out get 50 percent of the profit from those people for the next 20 years because they might hold on to it for 5 years but then they're going to sell it for, like, 5 million later. and i invested for 18 years so how much investment, i could have put a down payment on a house. this is something, an addendum to the ellis act. if that's going to keep being constitutional they should allow 50 percent of the profit to go to the people who are being kicked out for the next 20 years. or they can make money somewhere else. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good afternoon, thank you very much, my name is jonathan stoker and i've lived at 1049 market street for the last 3 years. and on or around september 15th we received a memorandum email from our property management and they informed us that they were sad to info

it's a war on tenants and we are losing right now and we need all the help we can get from the supervisors and the mayor. thank you. >> thank you, mr. gullickson, thank you to the tenants union for what you do. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i'm share -- 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 r