Half. Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us. We are delighted so many of you braved the elements to be here today, and welcome to our friends watching on cspan. Todays event follows events on the current trade agenda. We have nafta, trade with china. All of those events, videos from all of those events are available on www americastradepolicy. Com. We are looking at the future of trade and hosting a series of events looking at things like 3d printing and the impact those have on trade. Series of events looking at things like 3d printing, intelligent vehicles, and the impact that would have on trade. As of todays event, we could not have time to too much better. Last night the president himself was tweeting about trade deficits and today he will issue an executive order on the trade enforcement and trade our mission is to educate about trade policy. It cannot be happier than to have todays Panel Moderated by my old friend, longtime friends, ambassador peter al qaeda. After the
Half. Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us. We are delighted so many of you braved the elements to be here today, and welcome to our friends watching on cspan. Todays event follows events on the current trade agenda. We have nafta, trade with china. All of those events, videos from all of those events are available on www americastradepolicy. Com. We are looking at the future of trade and hosting a series of events looking at things like 3d printing and the impact those have on trade. Series of events looking at things like 3d printing, intelligent vehicles, and the impact that would have on trade. As of todays event, we could not have time to too much better. Last night the president himself was tweeting about trade deficits and today he will issue an executive order on the trade enforcement and trade our mission is to educate about trade policy. It cannot be happier than to have todays Panel Moderated by my old friend, longtime friends, ambassador peter al qaeda. After the
Follow the law. You cannot do false advertising of it illegal units if people have not registered. As a staff member of senior disability action, i also speak for the seniors who i know have lost their homes in those homes have indeed become shortterm rentals. Ive only to think of the 22 units that are still being used as Vacation Rentals in my neighborhood. We are actually talking about one block, 22 units, and those are free of the buildings were there had been [inaudible] seven years ago and this is a way to bring in the platform to hold them accountable and to stop our seniors from being evicted for greed and so, i want to really support this and i hope everyone will support this. This is so important to our communities, to our city, to maintain neighbors and neighborhoods. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Testifier good morning, supervise. Im marla night. Im cochair of north beach tenants committed to living in north beach i have seen firsthand whats happening in our neighb
Housing the weve been building, we lose three units of rentcontrolled housing. Thats not quite standing in place. If not a terribly impressive track record. Not one we should accept as a continuing trend. Why those units are being taken off the market is of course because of a number of speculative forces but we know the shortterm rentals being so unenforceable such a lack of compliance is a right opportunity for speculation removal of those units we have to but not all. This legislation is a very simple step forward what puts accountability on the businesses were making a nice any Profit Office as well as the clients to ensure the simply complying with local laws. If everybody was like misnomer we would not have the kind of housing affordable to crisis with this industry that we do. So, please, supervisor this is really low hanging fruit. They shouldve been and are legislation in the first place asking the businesses to take responsibility for only listing registered host is a very si
Arguments about how air b b is operating as a nice the engine on the subject to such regulation is just a bunch of who we. Comparing, regulating shortterm rentals with a newspaper taking out newspaper ads you can compare these think its new world and old worlds. We need new approaches to make new World Technology work in todays environment. The biggest problem, you for this over and over againthe shortterm rentals are causing less housing. It trickles downhill in your seeing more homeless people. Thats really the big problem. All these homeless people. So, yay for the legislation. Its a start and i look forward to seeing the next pieces of legislation to make registration easier. Supervisor peskin thank you. After that, [calling names] testifier good morning, supervisor name is charlie work on Government Affairs for the San Francisco apartment association. Thank you for hearing us today. We represent about 3000 Property Owners from the immense about 70,000 rentcontrolled apartments cit