Phones and electronic devices. Items will appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please read item number 1. Yes. Supervisor walton, do you have any opening remark . Definitely excited that we have our working group almost completely full. We are working to make sure we have the youth represented on the work group and just looking to making appointments. I dont know if anybody else has any comments or anything. Nope. Okay, great. We have three applicants. Its julia, danielle, and kandy. Sorry if i mispro announced your name. If youre here, please feel free to come up and address the committee. Anybody here . I dont see anyone. Okay. Well then i will now open this item for Public Comment. If any member of the public wishes to speak on this idea, this is your chance to come forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] like i said, im excited that we have an opportunity to select the youth to serve on the work group. What i want to do today, if its okay with you, supervisor ronen. I would like to appoint kandy to seat four and i would like to wait until the rules committee to make the last appointment. Supervisor walton made a motion that is accepted without recommendation. Were not back from thanksgiving break. Accepted without objection. [laughter] that motion passes unanimous unanimously. Thats good, right . Yes. Okay, great, can you please read item number 2 . Too much turkey. Item number two is an ordinance amending the administrative code to apply eviction controls to units that are exempt from rent increases limitation because they received a certification occupancy after june 13, 1979. Thank you so much. We are joined by supervisor haney, the lead author of this legislation. Would you like to make any opening remarks . Sorry, im not signed in here. Your microphone is on, ill sign you in shortly. Great, thank you chair ronen and committee members. Im here today to ask for the committees support for our universal eviction protection legislation that will bring thousands of units under the protection of the rent board and the eviction protections. Despite some of the strongest tenant evictions in the country, they continue to contribute to the housing crisis. The rent ordinance, the citys set of laws that govern tenants rights. If your building was constructed before 1979, you have the benefit of rent control. If your building is newer, you dont. We have little data on what happens to tenants in these post 1979 buildings. In 2018, over 1,500 eviction notices were filed with the rent board, but this doesnt include with post 1979 buildings, because those landlords are not required to file anything with the city. 15 of renters reported they were threatened we with eviction. Eviction is the primary cause of homelessness has doubled. Its harmful for our communities. Now is the time to correct this inequity and treat all units the same when immaterial it comes to eviction. The act establishes just cause in eviction protections in every California City starting on january 1st, as well as implement a statewide rent cap. This is a huge win for tenants statewide. There are loopholes that continue to leave tenants without protection. The California Apartment Association recently boasted about winning exemptions for buildings construct in the last 15 years and buildings where a tenant has lived there less than a year. That means tenants that fall into those categories wont be protected by the state law. It also does not explicitly bringing it under the rent board, making it harder to enforce. This will close the gaps in the state law and build on the rent ordinance to ensure tenants in buildings constructed after 1979, including those that just moved in are protected by strong eviction protections. I will also say this will also offer protections for tenants who may be facing evictions right now and once this goes into effect, they will immediately be able to assert this as a defense. There are you know, i heard from many tenants and tenants rights activists, and tenants attorneys who have told me how critical these protections are and how they will provide for tenants to speak out. When theyre treated unfairly and theres retaliation, these protections will be able to be asserted in courts. I would like to thank the organizations in the antidisplacement coalition and Housing Rights Committee for bringing this proposal forward and partnering with my office to expand tenant protections. I would like to thank supervisors ronen, fewer, and robert collins, as well as Courtney Mcdonald from my office who has been working hard on this for months. I also just want to make sure everyone knows that if you are a tenant and has received a notice for eviction, you should immediately seek help from an organization like the Housing Rights Committee or the eviction defense collaborative. This is a critical step forward. It will be the largest expansion of people protected under our San Francisco rent ordinance in 40 years. Its something that people, activists, advocates have been fighting for for decades. This, the board of supervisors passed a similar version of this 10 years ago and it was vetoed. I am hopeful that doesnt happen this time and the momentum and the understanding of how critical these protections are has reached a level that this will be signed into law in the near future in San Francisco. I want to thank everyone who came out today. We had a rally on the steps of city hall and theres incredible excitement for this and also a huge need. Thank you so much. I just wanted to chime in a bit and express my excitement for this legislation. Thank you for bringing this forward supervisor haney. I hope the second try is the charm. I grew up in a rent controlled apartment in los angeles. I just went back for the thanksgiving holiday to visit my parents there, and i always say that if it wasnt for that rent control department and for my moms pension as a lifelong teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School district, then my parents would be living with me. I am incredibly, incredibly, as much as i love them, thankful for these laws that keep people in place and allow them to retire on their own terms, in their own homes, and with dignity. The thing about living in San Francisco as a renter is that youre always nervous youre going to be thrown out on the street. You never get to rest easy and it didnt use to be this way. I remember a decade ago, but definitely 15 to 16 years ago, you knew that yeah, you could be evicted, but you would easily find another place you could afford and while it would be an inconvenience and awful, it wouldnt mean that your entire life would be turned upside down and you would have to leave the region. That is what it means nowadays, to be evicted from your home in San Francisco. So this legislation, any legislation that makes sure ten gnats are not arbitrarily pushed out of their homes without any good reason, without having broken any laws, without having done anything wrong. Its to me a no brainer, especially today in San Francisco. So i wanted to again thank supervisor haney for bringing this forward. Im proud to be a cosponsor, and im looking forward to Public Comment unless any of my other colleagues want to make an opening remark. Now we will open this item for Public Comment. Anyone who likes to speak, you will have 2 minutes. You can line up to your right, my left. That would be great. We can take one speaker right after the other. Good morning, please feel free to start us off. Hi. Good morning, thank you. Im a tenants right attorney in San Francisco. Im here to support the legislation that would extend just cause protections to buildings that were built after 1979. My only criticism would be that potentially it does not go far enough. Since my time is limited at 2 minutes, im just going to share one antidote that i think reflects what its like to live in a building that does not have just cause eviction protections, but i also want to add thank you supervisor haney about the Housing Rights Committee. Some people know and you know, the landlord lobby complains about the right to counsel now. I get calls everyday by tenants that spent all their money on their rent, and dont know that they have this right and dont know where to go. So, even though this legislation, as well as this proposed legislation, if its enacted, is there protecting tenants in theory, many tenants still do not know about their rights and often get taken advantage of based on their ignorance. So, i want to share an antidote from my time. I was living in daily city, and i was living beneath so i was a few blocks south of the San Francisco border and there was no just cause protections there. Due to my landlords negligence, the ceiling collapsed several feet from my head and my landlord who was a realtor at the time, licensed by the department of real estate saw this as an opportunity to turn around and hand my upstairs neighborhoods an eviction notice without cause, along with a rent increase notice giving them an option of either. Those students moved further. They were unable to live thank you. Im one of those lucky ones that has had apartments for the last 45 years built before 1979. Little did we know how lucky we were at the time. We were evicted twice, but they were legitimate. The arbitrary decision not to protect tenants in buildings before 1979 was shortsighted. We now see the great harm thats been done, harm thats been accelerated with gentrification and displacement in the last 10 to 20 years. It dramatically affected families. A few facts that im sure you already know. The number of people that are homeless increased 30 from 2017. 70 of people that are homeless had housing in the last several years. 30 of homeless are seniors. The number of people citing eviction as a cause of homeless spiked after 2009 and about 2,500 children at unified School Districts are homeless. There are also Devastating Health effects, including death that has happened because of evictions and the threat of evictions. My friend jay has been a tenant all her life and long time nurse and caregiver, working with the most Vulnerable People in San Francisco. Since retirement, shes been taking care of her husband 24 7, but was recently diagnosed with metastatic cancer. I got a panicked call from her, thinking it was about her cancer. No, she is absolutely terrified of being evicted because she has cancer and her daughter moved in to take care of her and her husband. So she is terrified while she goes through treatment of cancer, shes terrified about eviction. I also thought about the teachers in San Francisco who okay. Thank you. Excuse me if i started this wrong, its my first time. My name is russell. Were not talking a position on supervisor haneys position, but were concerned that the board of supervisors contorts itself to create legislation to San Franciscos affordability that ignores the underlying issue of the crisis, which is the under production of housing. They nibble around the edges and San Francisco has under produced. This under production is a root cause of the affordability and displacement crisis. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. My name is kathy and im a tenant. Im active in the tenants Rights Movement and im a member of seniors dability seniors disability action. They are trying to untie this knot for protecting buildings built after 1979. What an arbitrary cruel way of doing business. This has contributed to poverty, homelessness, speculation, and gentrification. Who else has benefitted from this but the Real Estate Industry . This move is long overdue and will bring a semblance of housing justice to our city. The no fault vicks from 1994 to 2016 are shocking and these numbers of 16,000 people, according to the antieviction mapping project spell misery and pain that we will never fully know about since no stats are taken on what happened to those who lost or are losing their homes. So supervisors, this is a big step forward and thanks in advance for voting this bill out of committee and fighting for it before the whole board. Thank you very much. Hello. As we all know, buildings built after 1979 currently do not have just cause. In january, under 1482, i think up to 2,000 more units will be under just cause. Its great to know that if this bill passes, we will be including all the other buildings not covered by the refere rent control or 1482. I believe that means Single Family homes and condos that are not included in 1482. This is great. I mean this is long overdue. In my almost 20 years at Housing Rights Committee, as a counsellor there, i seen a lot of people displaced from units that were not under rent control. I think one of the ways we see most often is that if you live in a building thats being sold and you dont have just cause, and you can be evicted because of selling it. Its, you know, there is no just cause. I think its great that those tenants in those buildings will have some protection, even though there is pressure to take buyouts and all that. There will be some form of protection against evictions. I assume these units will be under the rent boards jurisdiction. If thats the case, i also want to raise the question of the units under 1482, and the fact that at this point, my understanding that they wont be under the rent boards jurisdiction and i urge you to address that issue. Housing Rights Committee does support this legislation and i hope it sails through the board of supervisors. Thanks. Good morning supervisors. Im anastasia. Im a district 8 tenant and member of the San Francisco Tenants Union. Im grateful to supervisor haney for introducing this legislation. Its long overdue. San franciscans deserve a way to enforce their rights under state and local law. The legislation introduced to expand just cause protections to buildings built after 1979 is estimated to bring an additional 35,000 units under eviction controls. When people get evicted, either for cause or without just cause, they have no place to go. We have an affordability crisis, so this will stem the bleeding, as such. Thank you so much. Good morning supervisors. Im with the San Francisco land use coalition. I just wanted to thank supervisor haney for introducing this much needed legislation and all the supervisors who are in support. This is a city that comes with rent control, but no vacant sit control. This is a city that gives instruments such as owner move in, eviction rights to owners to get rid of their tenants. We do have just cause. I think this is a huge improvement and thats why im grateful for you supervisor haney and fellow supervisors that support this because every time you go through, especially the east side of the city and you see those cranes who are building these new apartments, those are the ones that are going to be having residents, potentially ten in and aboants e the beneficiaries of this. These New Buildings need protection for the tenants. If the action is pushing for more units, well, this is exactly what well be protecting, the tenants that are going to be renting those new apartments and those new units. So, i wish they would be here to actually voice their support, but we are here. We are voicing our support. We are the ones that want to have equity and justice for all. Thank you very much. Good morning supervisors. My name is gayle and im a tenderloin tenant, resident. I cant tell you how many protests i been to for evictions so im very, very happy to see this. Thank you for writing it and all of you for supporting it. Im just here to say i support it and i really hope that it passes because the last thing we need is more people being kicked out of their house and on the streets. Were trying to house people. Thank you so much. Good morning, my name is susan marsh. Im a volunteer member with the San Francisco Tenants Union and housing rights. I regret to have to start with something thats secondary and negative, but i must point out that the individual was misrepresenting the situation in that both the housing jobs balance report shows San Francisco is not in fact massively under producing new build im sorry, market rate housing. Its quite the contrary. I could go on with this, but i dont wish to be negative today. The fact is that this legislation will help protect tenants in the new build construction that we are seeing all around us and all buildings built after 1979. In doing so, it will also correct a truly fundamental injustice, which is the injustice of tenants not being protected from arbitrary evictions at the whim of landlords. It will provide all tenants with the ability. And i urge you to pass this. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. My name is curtain and im the cochair of the tenderloin peoples congress. Im here to speak in favor of this measure. I hope you will pass it with unanimous consent and send it to the board. Were going to fight hard and pass it there. This isnt going to solve our crisis, but this is one tool in a tool belt. Weve been passing a number of measures and we still have work to do. This is one important piece. Its hard to measure the impact of the current system, the way its set up. Its hard to measure that impact in terms of how many of the people we see out on the streets were directly related to what were talking about today. We know that some of them were. Some of those folks ended out there because they didnt have the appropriate protections to keep them in their housing. We also know that it cost a lot more to help get those people back into housing than to keep them in their housing. So we know whos benefitting from the system the way it is currently. The landlords, the developers, if profiteers, but whos paying for it . All the rest of us. We have to pay to rehouse those people. Were paying with the suffering that we have to endure on our streets. I mean just the inhumanity of it. Anything that we can do to keep people in their homes and protect them in this city needs to be done. Its a crisis. So, i appreciate your support and ill be there when we get to the board and thank you. Good morning supervisor, thank you so much for having us this morning and for your work on this legislation. My name is cynthia, and my role primarily is to support renters inrichment. What im here to say today is housing rights is supportive of this common sense eviction protection legislation. Whether or not someone stays in their home should not depend on when that home is built. Too often i can tell you every interaction begins with what year was your home built . That should not be the way that it is. However, today, we expand the just cause protections. Tomorrow, we will need to expand real rent control. That absolutely means price control that absolutely means vacancy control. That means enforcing eviction protections and price control. If housing is a human right, tenants should not have to go to court in order to enforce it. If any of this is a right, you should not need a lawyer and you should not have to fight for it in the courts that way. Too many of our renters are not able to do that. It is inaccessible and in fact, we need the rent board to be able to support us in both ways. We need components of both. More than anything else, we are in an affordability crisis. Its not about development. Its not about the supply. Its about whether or not you can be working class in this city and right now it is not possible. Its very difficult. Thank you supervisor fewer super visor haney and fewer. We hope to fight for renters in the future. Thank you. How are you doing supervisors. My name is brian. I live in district 5 and i have been doing outreach for homeless encampment for a few years. I noticed a few years ago, if i was talking to someone that was born and raised in San Francisco, there was a high likelihood i was having that conversation through the flap of the tent. I started seeing more and more families and time and time again, the way they ended up on the streets is from some b. S. Eviction. I told her i would say arbitrary instead of b. S. I apologize. It would make just as much sense to base your eviction protections on what year you were born, as it does what year your building was born. I was hoping that someone would come and make Public Comment to argue against this. I wanted to hear what they would possibly come up with. Thats the great thing about this. Theres no argument. Its the most common sense, easiest thing to pass and i hope im talking to Friendly Faces here. I hope you pass this unanimously. I hope the board passes it unanimous, and i look forward to fight with the mayor if need be. Cheers. Thank you all for hearing this. Im the director at the Housing Rights Committee. I wish we didnt need bills like this and i wish this was much more than it is. Thank you all for doing this step. We seen a number of buildings emptied out when usually they were up for sale. There was a building on 40th avenue a few years ago, that many people that lived there for 15 years, which is almost the whole building. Its easier to gentrify the building when no one is there. They just emptied out all the longterm tenants, and some were there over 20 years. You know, i mean this is a real thing. Its a no brainer. I want to echo that its really important that as we get these new state laws that werent fully thought out, that they go under the rent board. We dont have many enforcement agencies in general and the rent board does a really good job of holding that piece before things have to go to court. So that would be the other request. Thank you all for hearing this. I hope you all support it. Thank you very much. Thank you supervisor haney, ronen, mar. My name is victoria. I came to this city as a young business owner, Small Business owner. I raised my children in the tenderloin. My children went dreading school. Im now a senior. I have developmentally disabled adult son. The last time i spoke here, i was grateful for the Housing Rights Committee because i had protection under rent control. Now im on the next level of homelessness. Im couch surfing. My daughter and i got the benefit of the property, but because of the loopholes and the lack of resources, we were forced to take a buyout. There is no option. So, i thank you for closing this loophole. I think there should be a moratorium on all evictions as los angeles has done until we get to the bottom of this crisis. This is the face that you will see on the homeless streets in the future. The people that you see out there once were productive citizens and the ones that have survived and moved out of the area are suffering. Thank you. Hi, jennifer, coalition on homelessness. Thank you supervisors. I wanted to mention as you know the overwhelming majority of people in San Francisco what we know is a lot of them became homeless through evictions. Assignmen sometimes its not immediately. You lose your housing, stay with family and friends, and then eventually end up on the streets. Its a series of event that is often times catastrophic for people. This is one piece of the puzzle we have to do. I think its incredibly important to recognize for a long time that we have to go upstream and take these measures if we want to really address homelessness. So, thank you and i know you guys will be supporting this. Thanks. Good morning supervisors. Im sarah, with the Community Partnership now, i use to be with the housing committee. I dont have much to say but i wanted to remind everybody. We tried to do this many years ago and it was only our mayor at the time who vetoed it. Thats to say this is long and coming, and the crisis has only worsened since that time. I applaud supervisor haney and the rest of the sponsors for reviving this, and the housing committee. The time is long overdue and people are really suffering as you just heard. Its really only fair. Its arbitrary and it was really just compromising in the legislation that was politics at the time. Thank you very much for fixing this important piece of legislation. Thanks. Thank you, are there any other members of the public that wishes to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor haney. Thank you sarah for your work on this and thank you to everyone thats here, who have been fighting for this for so long. As sarah said, this was the past 10 years ago, it was vetoed and passed narrowly on the board of supervisors and i think its been your work, continuing to fight for this, continuing to raise the urgency that has gotten us to the point where we are today. Not only the state is taking action on it and the governor has changed his tune on it, but this board, i hope is poised to pass this. I hope its our board now is poised to pass it unanimously. So thats how much things has changed. Sadly theres been so many people who have been evicted and faced harassment without rights and protection during that time that shouldnt have had to gone through that. I want to thank all of the folks, everyone in the room who has continued to fight along the way to help us to get to this point and the understanding of the urgency around this. I also, you know, do find it interesting, especially because there are folks that say the solution to the housing crisis is just build, build, build, and yet those folks arent here and you are here defending the rights of the people that will be in those buildings. Tenant protections should be for everybody, and that is important. This is a critical piece of how we address the housing crisis. There are a couple things i wanted to address. This will bring all of the units under the protection of the rent board. It takes us a lot further than what the state legislation would have done, including the units that are covered under the state legislation, but arent part of the gap that were closing with this legislation. So, this will also provide for that. Were doing something not just for the units that were built in the last 15 years, but all the units th units that will be under our legislation. We looked at an eviction moratorium. I agree thats something that would be good to do. We were told we couldnt do it under our city charter. Just understanding why we didnt do that, but we did make this retroactive in so far as someone is facing eviction currently could assert this as a defense as soon as this goes into law. I completely agree that this is not enough. This goes as far as we can go with regards to just cause eviction protections, but we obviously need to repeal to extend rent control to all buildings and vacancy control for every reason that its arbitrary to have this apply to these eviction protections apply to buildings, that are built at a certain time, its arbitrary to have rent control on buildings, based on when theyre built. Thats something we need to continue to change and hopefully this is a big step forward. I do want to under score that the state legislation was a huge victory and it is very important, but those exceptions, those gaps were unacceptable as far as were concerned here in San Francisco. San francisco has a history of being on the forefront of tenant protections, and this is another step, a big step in that way. I hope other cities and counties follow us and close those gaps as well and dont just accept the state legislation as is. Those were political decisions. They were made because of the Apartment Association and land lord lobby and they shouldnt be in place for any Public Policy reason. Can i ask director collins, can i ask you a question here that i had through the chair . What impact, if any, will this have on relocation benefits in terms of the someone is being evi evicted . Director of the rent board, the relocation process is part of the eviction scheme. Under the rent control ordinance, there is an eviction relocation payment under ab1482, but this would control if this legislation passes, so that folks living in newer housing would be subject to the right to have the relocation payments that we have in San Francisco for rent controlled units. This will be the difference. Just so im clear. Currently if youre in a building after 1979, and you build after 1979, before ab1482 or our legislation, and youre evicted for one of the reasons that would trigger relocation benefits, youre not entitled to those benefits currently . That is correct. You are not entitled to any relocation payments. And when the legislation passes, you will be entitled to the same relocation benefits that are available to people, if one of those reasons youre evicted. Thats right. It goes along with an eviction but not rent increase protections. That will be available for every resident that lives in a building covered by the rent ordinance for eviction controls. There are about 7,000 for tenants and tripled for the unit. I want to under score that is a big deal as well and its something that hasnt gotten much attention. We are not just extending the just cause protections, but were extending the relocation benefits for people that may be facing an ownermove in. They will have a right to significant relocation benefits and it provides some protections in terms of preventing, i would say deterrents for landlords that may want to take these steps, might reconsider evicting someone if they know they have to pay relocation benefits. So its very significant and very important, and huge part of this as well. So thats another reason to do this. Thank you for your work and for coming up and clarifying that. Supervisor walton. Thank you chair ronen. Im going to be brief to say that we obviously have a lot of work to do at the state level and here locally to protect tenants. Just know that this board will be working very hard to institute any protections we can so tenants can stay in their homes. A lot of us are renters as well so we understand personally what that means. We will continue to fight for protections for tenants. I would love to be added as a cosponsor to this legislation as well. Supervisor mar. Thank you, i just wanted to thank supervisor haney and all the tenant and housing advocates for their work on this legislation. I am very happy to support it for all the Important Reasons that have been stated. I would just add that i think this is really important for the west side and for district 4 in particular, given that like my district has by far the worse commutative housing balance based on the planning departments housing report. The negative 225 housing balance in district 4 is a result of the lack of creation of Affordable Housing in our district, which im aggressively working with my constituents to address. Its also equally a result of the loss of protected units and rental units in my district, which had over 500 rent controlled units lost in the last decade. Thats the highest among any district in this city. From these figures, its very clear that we need to do everything we can to preserve and protect rent controlled housing in our city and especially in district 4. This expansion of just cause eviction protections to newer buildings is a modest, but very significant and important step forward in addressing our housing crisis. Thank you. Thank you so much. Wow, what a difference a board makes, right . I have been in this building working for about 10 years now as a legislative aide and now as a supervisor. I have been involved in countless pieces of tenant rights legislation and its never felt there easy before. Felt this easy before. Its generally a massive, massive struggle to win every single vote. I think thats both a reflection of the times we live in and how difficult it is for regular people to afford to live in San Francisco and its about the hard work that tenants and housing groups have done to elect leaders that support their interests. I just had to remark on it because its quite extraordinary. Ive been through dozens and dozens of tenant rights legislation and its never been this given before. As supervisor haney said, i didnt realize the full extent of the legislation regarding relocation benefits. This is massive. This is very meaningful legislation. Of course, what we really want is you know, to extend rent control to everyone and were going to get there overtime. In the interim, this will make a massive difference in peoples lives. I want to thank you for championing this and thank everyone advocating for this legislation, for your lifetime of work building a movement overtime to protect tenants in the city. Youre seen and so appreciative by me and my colleagues. With that, does someone want to make the honor of moving this forward . Supervisor mar, looking at you. Yeah, i would move that we recommend this to the full board with positive recommendation without objection. And without objection, that motion passes. Congratulations. [gavel] [cheering and applause] yeah. And mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Item number 3, hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending april 22, 2021, to the our city, our home Oversight Committee. Sorry, youre waiting for me, arent you . Im just letting people trickle out. So i just wanted to make a note that supervisor brown would have been here today, but shes stuck out of town with airport delays, like so many of us this weekend. I wanted to call up the applicants that are applying for these seats. Im going to go in order, although i know some folks couldnt make it today. Julia, are you here . Please come up. Hi, good morning. Good morning, welcome. Thank you so much for having me guys. I havent prepared much. I know victor sent out an email. I wanted to say hi and introduce myself. Your office was open and i was able to meet your staff. I live in the district. I guess let me start off by telling you about myself. So, i was homeless at 15. I dropped out of high school. I was chronically homeless until age 21. I had my first daughter at 18 and we lived in a shelter, Star Community home. I worked seven years in the community, doing Community Work on the coalition of homelessness, as well as the outreach by c. B. D. C. And then we went to the shelter advocate for two years, and now im actually getting my bachelors degree at berkeley in business. So, just to speak on sort of my journey through the city, from being homeless and then being hou housed. I had my first lease in district 10. Yeah, i got a b. M. R. Unit at the dog patch. Yeah, the reason i want to be on this board is i feel a deep sense of responsibility. I feel that im in a place now where im able to contribute to be positioned to impact peoples lives the way that Certain Services and programs impacted mine. I feel that not only have i experience and being a member of the community. I really see the gaps that are lacking in services and in certain places. Its not just money, but awareness. Part of what victor wanted us to talk about is things we want to work on, on the board. Obviously this is not like, i think there are so many things like if we had time to sit down and have an hour long conversation, we could get into it. I guess really being a single mom, family is super important to me, considering the amount of money that went into families before 2011 was micro. It was very small. Having worked directly in the shelters, seeing the amount of people with disabilities, and not just Mental Health, but physical disabilities, youth especially, seniors, and also women experiencing Domestic Violence is something im passionate about. I feel those services are lacking. In terms of the funds, i think as a city, we should be building more Affordable Housing, like 100 affordable units. I think a lot of the money can go into investing into that. Yeah, i feel that if you have any other questions, im happy to discuss it. Thats really my background. Sorry, i didnt want to take too much of your time up. Yeah, but, thank you, i look forward to being on board. Do you want me to say what seat im applying for . No, we have that here. Thank you so much guys. Your presentation was perfect. Thank you so much. Was it . Okay, i wanted to touch on all these things and have it prepared before thanksgiving. Thank you. Thank you. Next were going to call up jennifer friedenbach. Hi, thanks. I want to thank sally brown, and the three of you, and your staff for all the careful appointment work coming up. A little bit about myself, im as you know, the executive director. Im going on 25 years at the organization here. I did some Mental Health organizing when i came to the coalition of homelessness and i worked as part of the hunger coalition. Im committed to the struggle to end mass homelessness by addressing the structural causes and crafting permanent fixes. My work is about developing consensus on solutions with folks with personal experience with homelessness, who survived it or are still experiencing it. I have some skills around and i think i have been able to unstick ambivalence in transbureaucracies and entrenched mindsets from im look always learning from the brilliance around me. I have a long history of community organizing, working in collaboration with many others and worked on a range of poverty issues, homeless prevention, disability, working alongside homeless people. I think youre aware that Community Members and Front Line Service providers, i helped craft the campaign our city, our home. This is the oversight body for this. My other accomplishments is playing a leadership role for families, thousands of units of housing, exits, major expansion of prevention, and co authored several reports on the coalition of homelessness. I feel awkward talking about myself. I was just going to say in 16 years, i have never seen you talk about yourself. [laughter] this is extraordinary. Im having so much fun listening to this. This is so embarrassing. All of us are. Were like oh my gosh. [laughter] so anyway, if i were appointed to this body, i wrote a bunch of stuff but im skipping it all because its too embarrassing. I would continue, if i were selected for this and appointed to the body, i would continue this is a massive undertaking. One Silver Lining of the lawsuit is that we can get the system turn ceo ready. Turnkey ready. We have to get ready for when the funding is released. This Oversight Committee has a tremendous amount of work do in getting us there and im more than willing to do that work and bring this to the table. If im appointed, i will be listening to everyone of all strifes. We need to ensure a work product that is what San Francisco represents. Thank you for your consideration. Any questions . Im jennifer. I dont have any questions, but i just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for your 25 years of tremendous hard work and advocacy in this field. Youre one of my heroes and youre someone i look to on a regular basis as and i want to thank you because you amaze me everyday. Thank you. The admiration is mutual. Thank you. Next we have Chanelle Williams but she texted me that she is home desperately ill and she was planning to be here and is very much excited and willing to serve and would be here if she could. Is alice chu here . Yes, come on up. Good morning. Everyone. I cant believe im speaking after jennifer. [ laughter ] this is so not fair. [ laughter ] because, mind, come on, seriously. But good morning, supervisors. Can i just see who is here . So im the chair and right in front of you, hilary ronan and then im facing you and to my left is supervisor gordon mar and then shamar walton. I know supervisor ronan and mar know me from my work but i can say a little more if you want. This is a little scarry speaking after her. Im still processing what she says. Its wonderful. I have been an advocate, kind of working in the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault field in the past 20 years. Mostly working with people in Domestic Violence shelters and people who are facing homelessness because of violence. Right now im the Program Manager of the hope center and were part of the San Francisco safe house. The hope center is centered in the tenderloin where theres a lot of stuff going on, as it is for a big part of the city. I like to be able to offer myself on the committee because i really see the need to support in a different way, a different aspect. Ive been sort of like a background person for a long, long time and i feel this is an opportunity for me to step up, to do this work. Didnt i am privileged to be a person with a disability and i see the disadvantage, either a physical or mental disability to be homeless. As we home 20 minutes ago, im a rent control renter and i know what i face is significant as a renter with disabilities, you know. I have lower income compared to people with other disabilities and im a woman of colour. So i just think that those are my qualifications and thats my thinking. Theres a lot of qualified people who are applying for this seat. I was reading it before i come here and i would really, really hope that, you know, any of us who are qualified to be able to serv
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