thank you >> ted with the san francisco tenants union we support this from the data that was seen it's clear and a direct correlations related to those google bus stops it's time we give up to ask the tech industry to mitigate the damage. there causing us to be evicted and rents to go up but we really need to study the whole stent of the processing problem of the google bus stops and if their causing rents to rise in neighborhoods we got to think about moving them out of the city dui but the first step is to do the eir and carefully analysis this with any new things that happen in the tech industry because their causing serious damage to the housing crisis and are directly involved with the crisis and we need to increase the ellis allocation to again, the tenants union supports the appeal and definitely believes we need to do an eir. thanks >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors i'm karen i'm usually here speaking for the club but i'm here speaking for myself. my comment is going to make sense eventually. a few years ago i went to a plan school why am a learning this

tenants and others from displacement. i want to thank dbi and the city attorney's office and thank the tenants union for their support of ouregislation and thank the feedback from online platforms as well as the apartment association and the coalition for bettered housing. i know there will be more discussions and look forward to those and thank amy chang >> mr. president, seeing none, other nominations that concludes the roll call. >> i want to go to our accomodation district had would like to move forward with we do those at 2:30 but there's a important person here. >> again, thank you very much supervisor chiu and colleagues for entertaining this. for this person i wish we could roll out a red carpet. last week wednesday something tragic and beautiful at the same time happened on ocean beach. today, i'm so thrilled to be able to how were you someone who both sides the true sense of the word. a 17 why would i think he's decided to go catch waves he saved two people from darwin at ocean beach. i personally don't even dare to surf at ocean beach. o and second of all really taking it upon user to see people were distressed.

homelessness, we heard from the san francisco bar association, the asian pacific islander legal outreach, tenants together, the tenants union, the tenderloin housing clinic, legal assistance for elderly, the housing rights committee, the bayview hunters point community legal services, and then any other member of the public who would like to speak. please go ahead. thank you very much. >>> good morning, supervisors. thank you for your time and your consideration. my name is [speaker not understood] i'm the supervising attorney at the evictions defense collaborative. it is the primary agency that helps tenants respond to their eviction lawsuit. we do have some limited resource he to help some tenants, but the vast majority of tenants we do not have the resources to represent. in my role as the supervising attorney i oversee a lot of the litigation that happens and i'm very aware of the value that attorneys add in cases when we're able to represent tenants fully. last week at court we sent six attorney to court and five of though tenants were able to keep their rent controlled home, their tenancy. we consistently add more val

homelessness, we heard from the san francisco bar association, the asian pacific islander legal outreach, tenants together, the tenants union, the tenderloin housing clinic, legal assistance for elderly, the housing rights committee, the bayview hunters point community legal services, and then any other member of the public who would like to speak. please go ahead. thank you very much.

could be tough to regulate because the myouts are privately negotiated between the renters and tenant. the city's tenant union says 25 to 30 buyouts are offered each month. a painted top stein has drivers doing a double take, this is the corner of mlk and arlington avenue, check out the spelling of the word "stop," "sotp," pointed out on twitter by an oakland resident and it has been updated by someone who took red paint and marked it like a teacher used a giant red pent d >> c minus for that. maybe c plus. how do you grate -- grade the forecast? >> "a-". >> "a-"? >> a+. >> me too, aplus. >> a+. >> you didn't write your name on the paper. >> as we look from mount tamalpais to san francisco, a gorgeous morning. you can see the sun rising and it will rise by:36 but we will have cloud cover persist through the morning and sunshine will burn off by later in the afternoon. can you imagine this is a shot from the roof camera looking to the bay bridge and the exploritorium it is dark in san francisco under the cloud layer and it will start to remain what up and right now the temperature is 53 degrees in san francisc

the other tenant. i will follow up with the building manager an social worker and union and including looking at the video from the date of the incident. i strongly encourage you to follow up with the mayor to complete a form on that" that's may 10. after my birthday. check this out. juicy they confirm that you are a tenant that causes a lot of problems and there are many cases of bullying. i hope to see everyone out here with the trash can. in front of city hall with naacp on friday at 12:30. be here and wcp talks about housing and kids education fund. we will stand up like with the trash can man for housing and education in the city. >> thank you very much. your time is up. any other members wish to speak on general public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> madam clerk. >> item 26. basic materials needed for the homeless children act. >> colleagues, [roll call vote taken] >> chiu, aye, cohn, aye, farrell, aye, supervisor kim, supervisor tang, aye, wiener, aye, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos aye, supervisor breed, supervisor campos? aye. there ar

the san francisco tenants unions force long time tenants out of their homes. francisco residents to sign a bill that would reform the ellis act. it would require five years of continuous ownership before investors could start. >> a lot of speculators flipping property to make a profit and human needs have to override the need for greed. >> according to the san francisco stabilization board over the last year, there have been 216 ellis act evictions. that's an 86% increase from the previous year. >>> time now is 9:16 and right now, the big marathon is under way. once the runners hit the 13- mile mark, they're going to be greeted by a familiar sight. for nearly a decade, michael martinez has been a staple of the marathon. runners call him the piano man and give him energy to complete the race and even though he's not lacing up shoes, he was like he's taking part in a marathon of his own. >> in the morning, it's rough. my hands are numb and it's really hard for me to play. can't play anything too fast. but in the afternoon, it starts to warm up, sun comes out and

tenants. now as kron 4's dan kerman reports, city hall is taking steps to help newly evicted long term renters. find new housing. the san francisco tendency use--union predicts that they're over 10,000 evictions each month. a representative says once the tenants are kicked out they have a difficult time finding new housing. long term is very difficult to find affordable housing. city housing is now reaching out to help renters find housing. one of those behind thewellis act gives priority to those who were evicted giving them priority win that housing becomes available. if you were a long-term venture for more than a number of years, you can approach the city, and it you have the opportunity to be on the list for equal opportunity housing. this will bump them up on the line. > > officials still say that any kind of assistance helps. this can get cut down the assistance wait time from four years to two years. why didn't anybody pay attention to it on their own without having it exposed by the media kron 4 news investigated the problem this bart commuter told us about. lights burning. night, noon, and day. for at least a month. wasting energy for no g

the other tenants. al jazeera, hong kong. >>> illegal immigration is not an issue limited to the united states. the european union is dealing with people trying to flee parts of africa. david shuster has more on that. expensive and dangerous border fences are not just for the american southwest. take a look at the coast of africa. here is morocco, spain, the strait of gibraltar. the despair of africa to the south, the promise of europe to the north. spain has two enclaves on the moroccan side of the water just on the northern side of morocco and there is a boarder area between morocco and the spanish areas. once you are in the spanish-controlled territory, you are technically in the european union. it's an easy ferry ride across the strait of gibraltar to get to the mainland. to discourage them as a gateway to europe, spain spent more than $50 million buildings barriers and border fences but in the past year, large groups of sub is a har an immigrants have charged the rows with increasing frequency. the my grant did and you can see the bloody feet, they often end up injured not just from the barbed wire but thank

the issue of union but he would not elaborate further. >> tonight the east palo alto city council will discuss a new ordinance to protect tenant t imbalancef power. some of the concerns from the largest landlord which has a track report of controversial evictions. the new proposal would give tenants further rights to organize and include protections against discrimination. >> the latest city considering a ban on electronic cigarettes is dublin. they will discuss changing the code to prohibit e-cigarettes and regulate it as a tobacco product. they created a special committee study the effects of e-cigarettes and what the city can do to slow sales. e-cigarette companies say the products help people quit smoking and far less harmful. >> palo alto will hold a meeting to address concerns over plans to build wider sidewalks there. the proposed changes would take place on el camino real which could set buildings farther off. it would build a better relationship between buildings and streets. but it adds further limitations to their rights. >> a sales man trying to sell jimmy fallon a truck. >> with humor i'm sure. a live look at the weather situ

the city should defend, help defend. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. thank you, sir. next speaker. >>> ted [speaker not understood], san francisco tenants union and as you've heard most tenants are getting evicted and we're seeing a lot of evictions these days. do not get an attorney and end up losing in court. so, we have a big need for legal services for tenants in san francisco, especially during this housing crisis. most of the legal representation we have right now, almost all of it, is for tenants who are facing an unlawful detainer or an eviction lawsuit. we need to stabilize and increase funding for that so that no tenant is going before a judge or jury without an attorney, without full representation. but beyond that, we he need to begin giving full legal representation to tenants from the moment they get the eviction notice. as has been noted earlier, many landlords issue bogus or what we call pretext evictions, evictions which will not stand up in court, evictions for nonpayment of rent. for example, when the rent has in fact been paid and it's documented that it's been paid, the bullying tenants go into court with an attorney know